Chris Vermeulen

It has been a while since I have written a simple technical analysis article. My focus has been on helping teach others how the markets move and to trade and invest differently, so I apologize for the...

The concept of diversification has long been hailed as the holy grail of investing. The idea is that spreading investments across different asset classes may reduce risk and create a more stable...

Recently I was shocked after speaking with five different investors on the phone. These investors have been involved in the markets for many years, and they trade their accounts. Surprisingly, not a...

Last week I rang the bell telling investors and traders to wake up and smell the hot coffee because 2023 is going to be a life-changing year, and likely, not for the better. The 30,000-foot view of...

Trading and investing are much more complex and challenging than most people think. While countless books have been written about how to trade and invest, most skip over what I consider to be the...

In the past two weeks, stocks have struggled to break through resistance and extend the holiday rally. I wrote about it in the last article. Commodity prices starting to fall is a bearish sign. There...

Stocks struggled with overhead resistance for the past week. While seasonal trends usually favor a year-end rally, this year’s rally may already have finished. January will be the month to watch. If...

This week’s investor insight will make you think twice about the current stock and bond rally as we head into the end of the year. We get a lot of questions about if the stock market has bottomed or...

Let’s kickstart things and conduct a quick thought experiment, shall we? Who is wealthier? Someone who works eighty hours per week and earns $450,000 per year, or… Someone who works 20 hours per week...

Precious metal prices—gold, silver—and related miners have been bearish for quite some time now. It looks like that is starting to change. When I look at the charts for gold and silver, I...