Trend Signal Now: The Pretend Credit Crisis

Sunday, January 19, 2025

This is a bull market for stocks. If you're not making money in this environment, then you should probably reevaluate your strategies.

I know for a fact that I've witnessed individuals, who are clearly mentally ill, fight this historic rally pretending that there's some kind of epic credit crisis coming any day now (for over 2 years lol).

Whether it's fake breadth deterioration, or the "yen carry trade", or lies about Gold sending some kind of warning, or the Fed ruining everything, or small-caps underperforming, or Trump and his Magas.

It's always something.

These people will make up anything in their heads, no matter how outrageous, in order to justify poor decisions. Their egos are too fragile.

Good.

It might be a little sad to have to watch them ruin their lives. But it's great for us who recognize their vulnerabilities and have chosen to just profit from it all instead.

You see, when I hear credit crisis, I naturally look at credit spreads to see what's going on.

The answer is: NOTHING.

Still nothing...

Credit spreads are as tight as they've been this entire bull market:

If there is stress in the stock market, you're going to see it in credit.

It's just math.

The Bond market is more than twice the size of the U.S. stock market. So if there is going to be pressure on stocks, it will show up in Bonds.

It has not.

This week I was running around various cities in the northeast talking with smart folks about markets. It was a very successful trip. More on that soon.

But on Thursday I was in New York City with Josh Brown and Michael Batnick on the number 1 podcast in Finance: The Compound & Friends.

If you're interested in how we're navigating the bull market, this is an episode you're not going to want to miss:

Josh and Michael are old friends of mine. I've had a front row seat to all their success. And they've been there rooting for me all along as well.

This was a ton of fun. Lots of laughs. And we discussed some really important market developments.

Now, the things we talked about in this episode are just a teaser for what will go down this Monday Night @ 8PM ET.

I will be hosting our LIVE Mid-Month Conference Call for Premium Members of ASC Research.

If you want to know how to approach the market in 2025, and what specifically we're doing about it to profit the most, you can sign up here to join us on Monday.

If you can't make it LIVE, don't worry because the replay will be made available afterwards, along with the slides to download, and you'll also get 24/7 access to all the trade ideas.

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See you in there!

Get Better in 2025

I like learning from people who are experts in their field.

It's why I listen when Sean McLaughlin talks about options, or Louis Sykes talks about crypto, or Jeff Hirsch talks about seasonality.

And it's why I listen when Jeff Macke talks about retail.

Jeff is the guy when it comes to retail and consumer-based companies. He knows when a company is well-positioned for the future and when it isn't. He knows when a CEO is just B.S.-ing investors, and when they aren't. And he knows what signs to look for that a company may be turning it around or heading for the ditch.

So I'm extremely excited for this next livestream I'm doing with Jeff, Tuesday at 4 pm ET.

We'll be talking about his approach to investing in these companies, and he'll even give us a few of his favorites right now.

Click here to get the link to the livestream.

See you LIVE on Tuesday.

- JC

P.S. If you haven't gotten Jeff's latest free report, download it here.

JC Parets, CMT | Founder, All Star Charts

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