JC Parets · Happy Hour w/ Traders: Hosted by JC Parets & Joe Fahmy [Holidays Edition] Oh man this was a lot of fun! Fahmy calls me up and says let’s invite everyone to a zoom call and talk about markets and drink Champagne. Obviously, I said I was in! We had two questions we were asking, 1) What was the biggest lesson you learned in 2020, and 2) What’s your best trade for the first half of 2021? Next July, whoever ended up picking the best trade gets a...

JC Parets · The "Post-Spreadsheet" World | JC & Howard Lindzon on Happy Hour w/ Traders This week on Happy Hour w/ Traders, I sit down with venture capitalist Howard Lindzon. He’s a Tech investor, or that’s what it feels like from my perspective. So my question was how he invests when money is rotating out of large-cap tech and into other areas? This sparked an interesting conversation about using today’s tools to generate new ideas, even if they’re out of your wheelhouse....

JC Parets · Post U.S. Election Special | My Interview on Opto Sessions with Ed Gotham On this week's podcast, I wanted to share a recent interview I did on Opto Sessions with Ed Gotham over in London England. Our chat took place on Thursday afternoon November 5, 2020, just a couple of days after an unresolved election. My main points revolved around focusing on price trends and worrying less about election results, at least as far as portfolio decisions are concerned. Ed...

JC Parets · Technical Analysis Radio Interviews: Hedge Fund Manager, Mark Dow Mark Dow has been a guest on this podcast more times than anyone else for a good reason. Selfishly I always enjoy chatting with him. His perspective is fascinating to me because he does such brilliant job of combining price behavior with sentiment analysis and the global macro intermarket backdrop. Mark worked for the U.S. Treasury Department in charge of Emerging Markets in the early 90s before...

JC Parets · My Interview With Jack Schwager - Author of Market Wizards I’ve done over 115 Podcast episodes and I don’t remember being this excited to interview someone. I’ve read all the Jack Schwager books and some of them multiple times. I know traders who regularly read these chapters as part of the mental training. Think about it, Jack has interviewed the greatest traders in history. All of them. It’s incredible. And you know what strategies he uses to trade his own personal...

JC Parets · The Money Game: Experiences Over Things (EP.17) In this episode of The Money Game, Phil asks about what's most important to me. Is it collecting material things, or enjoying experiences with family and friends? For me, it's quite obvious after looking back that I've enjoyed my experiences traveling throughout Asia and Europe with my wife. I remember my Dad let me skip school when I was 11 years old to go to Marlins Opening Day in 1993 (My mom was thrilled...

JC Parets · Audio From All Star Options October Conference Call For this episode of the podcast I thought we'd switch things up a bit. This week was our Monthly Conference Call for Premium Members of All Star Options. We've been doing this for years. Sean McLaughlin and I jump on a live video call where I go over the current market environment. And then Sean comes in and overlays his volatility analysis to find the best possible Options Trades to take advantage of the...

JC Parets · Technical Analysis & Financial Media: A Conversation w/ Frances Horodelski In this episode I get to chat with one of my all-time favorite journalists, Frances Horodelski. She was one of the first people to interview me on TV when I was still in my 20s and I don't forget that. She believed in me early on. That's really cool. We've continued to do interviews together over the years but today I flip the script and ask HER the tough questions. We discuss the role of...

JC Parets · The Sooner We Can Find Out We’re Wrong The Better | My Interview on The Meb Faber Show Earlier this month Meb Faber invited me on to his podcast. I really enjoy doing these, especially when they’re a bit outside of the Technical community. While Meb is definitely “one of us”, in terms of how he views markets, his audience includes people who might not be as informed about technical analysis and its benefits. This is where I can try my best to do my part to spread the...

JC Parets · Happy Hour w/ Traders: The Breadth Debate feat. Thrasher, Strazza, Hurley & Delwiche This podcast episode comes directly from our Youtube Channel. On this Happy Hour with Traders Video, I brought together some of the best minds when it comes to stock market breadth. You see all the breadth charts on twitter and you always hear debate about whether market breadth is weakening or improving. I think this round table discussion clears up a lot of misconceptions about the...

This week I was a guest on the Confessions of a Market Maker Podcast. This was a really fun discussion about Dow Theory, Perma-Bears, Fibonacci & optimal wine/food pairings. I think it will give you a chance to get to me a little more. Life isn’t just about charts and markets! Check it out! Click here return to the episode page

Today we have a special episode of the podcast. I think it's important to take a step back from the markets and Technical Analysis sometimes, and talk about something that is universal to us all. For this episode I invited Morgan Housel to come and talk about the importance of writing. For those of you who have been following my work for a long time, you often hear me talk about the personal benefits of putting my ideas down on paper. Sure, people all over the world get insight into what our...

Jeff Macke is the guy I turn to whenever I have questions about the Consumer. Anything retail, restaurants, internet sales, he's the one we want to listen to. Jeff and I have known each other for many years and are friends with a lot of the same people. On my Youtube Channel, you can find an old clip of him and I talking about Gold & Silver back in January 4, 2012. In this episode we talk about the restaurant stocks, pharmacies, which areas he wants to avoid and which ones he wants...

JC Parets · The Money Game: Stock Charts & Exercise (EP.16) In this episode of The Money Game, Phil wanted to talk about the importance of exercise. He compares the human mind and body to auto racing and how in order to succeed, the car must be in great condition. For Financial Advisors, Traders, Portfolio Managers and Analysts, we regularly go through very stressful times, and in other cases very boring times. In order to put ourselves in a position to excel, we need to have our...

JC Parets · Season 3 EP 24: Katie Stockton, Founder & Managing Partner, Fairlead Strategies I’m so excited to have Katie Stockton on the podcast. Katie is someone whose work I’ve followed my entire career. Even early on, she was there talking about oscillators and price behavior. She’s certainly on the list of Technicians who have influenced my work over the years. Back in the day she worked with Mike Hurley, another friend of the podcast and our featured guest in mid-March. After...

In this episode of the Money Game, Phil and I talk about how Technical Analysts have an advantage in the current global environment. The fact that we’re accustomed to focus on price behavior, and therefore tune out all the noise, we already have those good habits in place for a world filled with more noise than ever. I see people daily poisoning themselves with massive doses of news consumption, particularly horrible things happening all over the world. This conversation brings up some great...

Jordan Kotick is one of the key people that early in my career inspired me to be more intermarket oriented. They would ask Jordan about the S&P500 and he would go into a tangent about bonds. They would ask him about Emerging Markets and he'd whip out, what he refers to as, "Chinese Dow Theory". For over a decade, Jordan was the Managing Director of Macro Strategy at Barclays and then Managing Director of Cross Asset Strategy at RBC Capital Markets. He is the first person to have ever been...

JC Parets · Season 3 EP 22: Jeff deGraaf, Founder of Renaissance Macro Research Jeff deGraaf is one of those analysts who influenced me very early on. Something I've always admired about him is how much emphasis he puts on first identifying what type of market environment we're in, before then giving more or less weight to different tools and indicators. This is one of those important steps that I think gets forgotten quite often when you see investors trying to always incorporate a...

JC Parets · Season 3 EP 21: Chris Ciovacco, Chief Investment Strategist, Ciovacco Capital Management Chris Ciovacco is someone whose work I’ve followed for many years. His approach to markets is similar to mine, in that he incorporates a weight-of-the-evidence technical strategy. His open-mindedness and ability to set up multiple outcomes to prepare for, is one to be admired. In this episode, Chris walks through his thought process when analyzing the current environment. He makes a...

Adam Koos is a portfolio manager who uses Technical Analysis to make decisions for the clients he advises. In times like these, Financial Advisors all over the world are getting asked the hard questions. In this episode, Adam talks about how Technical Analysis has helped both his decision making and the communication with the families he works for. It's really cool to see these tools helping advisors everywhere, and especially a friend who I speak to regularly about markets and other common...

A couple of weekends ago, I had the privilege of hosting Chart Summit 2020, an online virtual Technical Analysis conference. We had over 30 presentations, 10,000 attendees and raised a ton of money to help the people who need it most right now. A great part about the whole thing is, not only all the fun we had, but how much we all learned! I'm so excited about it that we decided to turn my conversation with Jay Woods into a podcast episode, so you can listen to it on the go. Jay is a...

The videos of all the presentations are now up and you can go to ChartSummit.com and stream them for FREE! As we always like to do here after Chart Summit, Steve Strazza and I sat down to discuss what we just witnessed. This was one of the most amazing list of speakers I've ever seen at a Financial Conference. I can't even believe we were able to pull this off! Plus, we raised over $50,000 in donations, on the first day alone, to help fight coronavirus. Thank you to everyone who...

Mike Hurley has been an inspiration to me for many years. When it comes to market breadth, this is the guy. He’ll tell you he learned it from his predecessors and how he’s standing on the shoulders of giants and all those things he discusses in this episode, but for me personally, he’s been a great influence for sure. Many of you know how seriously I take my breadth work and how valuable it has been to so many of us for many years. It’s people like Mike and others who have helped my process...

Larry McDonald is the guy I turn to when I want to talk about the Bond Market. He always has something insightful about what's happening that I'm probably not seeing. We've become friends over the years but I originally got to know who Larry was by reading his book, Colossal Failure of Common Sense. This is a book about the collapse of Lehman Brothers being told by a bond trader inside the firm. I encourage you to pick it up and give it a read. It will give you good insight as to what exactly...

Jeff Hirsch is the Author of the Annual Stock Trader's Almanac. He, and before that his father Yale Hirsch, has been publishing the must-read almanac every year since 1967. This year is the 53rd edition of the Almanac and a lot of the smartest traders I know keep the most recent copy on their desk. I personally have issues I've kept going back decades. When it comes to Seasonality, whether it's the 1-year cycle, Presidential cycle, or even intra-month and intra-week cycles, Jeff is the person...