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Flat Market, Full Income

Jack Carter | June 24, 2025

Hey Traders, SPY finally decided to stretch its legs today. We opened with a solid gap up — and by the looks of it, we’ll close nearly 2% above yesterday’s levels. Now, if you’ve been watching this market the last couple weeks, you know it hasn’t exactly been a rocket ship. It’s been grinding, pausing, […]

Frozen Markets? I’ll Take the Cash, Thanks.

Jack Carter | June 20, 2025

Hey Traders, So markets are kind of frozen, huh? Look at the chart this week — SPY has been bumping its head on a ceiling… Real short candles. No conviction. Just sideways chop. Between tariffs getting paused, restarted, and paused again… And whispers of a war with Iran… traders are jittery. And when traders get […]

One Day Does Not a Trend Make

Jack Carter | January 16, 2025

Hey traders, If you’ve been paying attention this week, you already know things have been a rollercoaster. On Tuesday, I warned you about what I’ve been seeing in the charts. The SPY, DIA, and QQQ were flashing signals that we’re at a critical turning point — and I told you I’m no longer a bull […]

How To Trade When Markets Aren’t Trending

Jack Carter | July 31, 2024

Hey traders, I got a great question from Mark, one of my followers today. Mark called in to customer service to ask: What do you do when the major indices (DIA, SPY, QQQ) are not trending in the same direction?What do you do when the indices are not trending (not above all 3 moving averages […]

The Market’s Volatile: For Us, That Spells Opportunity

Jack Carter | July 25, 2024

Hey Traders, It’s Jack here, and today I want to talk about the tremendous amount of negativity and volatility we’re seeing in the market right now. The Dow 30 is experiencing significant fluctuations, with the index dropping 400-500 points one day and then up 400 points the next. The Nasdaq also saw a sharp decline […]

How To Trade This “No Man’s Land” Market

Jack Carter | May 2, 2024

Note: This article talks about the state of the market at the time of publication (see original publication date above). While the specific market conditions Jack discusses in this video and blog post will no longer apply to the market at a future time, we are leaving this article up because the broader lessons Jack […]

How I Find Stocks To Short

Jack Carter | April 16, 2024

Last week, I analyzed the broad market for you using three ETFs that track the three major indexes: In that post, I showed you how I could tell the broad market was weakening… or at least how it wasn’t as bullish as it had been for the last few months. That was Thursday. 3x More […]