Blogs

Blogs

StockCharts publishes a wide variety of technical market commentary articles on our website. Articles generally mix current market observations with charting and education. It is important to understand that StockCharts.com does not publish any buy or sell recommendations (a.k.a. “stock picks”); see our Terms of Service for more details.

Free Blog Articles

Many of our blog articles are available for free in the “Articles” area of the website.

  • Analyzing India - Milan Vaishnav delivers a technical perspective to the Indian markets, focusing on broad index and sector analysis and interesting trade setups and incorporating the use of Relative Rotation Graphs. Publishing multiple times per week, Vaishnav provides both long- and short-term outlooks, as well as tips on what stocks to take a closer look at and which ones are best avoided.
  • ChartWatchers - This blog contains all the articles from our free newsletter, offering a wide variety of trading and market-oriented commentary, along with updates on significant events related to StockCharts itself. New articles published on the first and third weekends of each month. Includes samples from John Murphy’s Market Message.
  • Dancing with the Trend - A treasure trove of timeless investing wisdom, this blog from Greg Morris provides educational industry insights on market breadth indicators and trend following from the perspective of a seasoned technician.
  • DecisionPoint - Carl and Erin Swenlin share their award-winning market timing commentary. Publishing multiple articles per week, the duo provides analysis using their own set of specially developed DecisionPoint signals, presenting weekly updates on all areas of the market and special bulletins and alerts based on DP techniques.
  • Don't Ignore This Chart - Our Senior Technical Analysts collaborate on this daily blog that gives in-depth looks into particularly intriguing or unusual charts that catch their attention. Each contributor brings their own brand of analysis to the table, providing different perspectives on what makes certain stocks interesting to them and techniques to explain their appeal.
  • MarketWatchers LIVE - A post-broadcast companion to StockCharts TV’s premiere program of the same name, including show highlights and important charts that appeared in recent editions.
  • Muscular Investing - Brian Livingston, author of Muscular Portfolios, reveals his strategies for finding winning long-term investments and building a stronger, safer, above-average portfolio.
  • RRG Charts - Julius de Kempenaer, creator of Relative Rotation Graphs (RRG), provides his helpful perspective on how to interpret RRG Charts and use them to analyze current market conditions. This blog serves as your ongoing guide to mastering this unique visualization tool.
  • The Canadian Technician - Greg Schnell, author of Stock Charts for Dummies and resident of Calgary, brings his Canadian perspective and intermarket expertise to the financial markets, with a special emphasis on the U.S. and Canada. Publishing multiple times per week, Greg heavily incorporates StockCharts tools in explaining his conclusions.
  • The Mindful Investor - David Keller discusses how to minimize the negative impact of behavioral biases by using technical analysis as an instrument to enhance decision-making. Exploring practical techniques to develop a healthy perspective on past, present and future, Keller shows how to perceive the market through the lens of the Mindful Investor.
  • The Traders Journal - Investment scholar Gatis Roze and his son Grayson reveal the secrets of their success and the lessons they’ve learned over the course of their lifetimes of trading.
  • Trading Places with Tom Bowley - Tom Bowley provides holistic day-to-day market recaps in this daily blog, summarizing the previous day's trading action and sharing his outlook on where the markets are heading. Tom's articles feature important sector and industry moves, individual stocks, seasonality comparisons, key earnings reports and important economic announcements.
  • Wyckoff Power Charting - In this weekly blog, Bruce Fraser, a.k.a. “Professor Wyckoff,” brings the teachings of Richard Wyckoff to the modern day, showcasing the ways in which Wyckoff's technical analysis methods hold true in current market conditions and what they project about the near future.

Click on “Articles” at the top of any page to see the latest articles from each of these blogs.

Top Advisors Corner (TAC)

Additionally, StockCharts publishes a collection of free, sample articles from other technical analysis-oriented authors in the “Top Advisors Corner” area of our Articles page. Unlike the other blogs on our site, these articles are not created by StockCharts.com staff members, but we still think they are very interesting and useful. Contributors include Tom McClellan, Tim Ord, W. H. C. Bassetti and Mark Young among others. The most recent TAC articles can be found listed about halfway down the right side of the “Articles” page.

Managing your Blog Subscriptions:
A: At the bottom of any article for the blog you wish to subscribe to, there is a subscription area where you can sign up to be notified of new blog postings. Enter your email address, then click the green “Notify Me!” button. A link in the email message can be used to unsubscribe.

Members-Only Blog Articles

A few of our blogs are available to members only; these are shown with a light green background in the Articles area.

John Murphy's Market Message

John Murphy's Market Message is John's main market commentary outlet. John Murphy publishes detailed market analysis articles in this members-only section of our website. All StockCharts.com members can read those articles and the extensive archives.

All Market Message content is available by clicking on the “John Murphy's Market Message” link at the top of the Articles page, or by selecting it from the blue “All StockCharts Blogs” dropdown menu in the top right corner of it or any other blog page.

Managing your Market Message Notification Emails:
Whenever a new Market Message article is posted, all StockCharts members are notified via a short email message. You can disable those email notification messages using the following steps:

  1. Log in and click on your name or the person icon in the upper right corner of the page.
  2. Click on “Your Account.”
  3. Find the “Notifications” area of the page.
  4. Click the “Unsubscribe” button in that area to disable those email messages.

Larry Williams "Focus On Stocks"

Investing legend Larry Williams brings you his latest research and actionable trading ideas. “Focus On Stocks” subscribers can access monthly articles from Larry and gain insight into Larry's thoughts, what he's seeing across all market conditions, and the charts he is viewing.

Subscribers can also access live monthly “Family Gathering” webinars hosted by Larry Williams. During the live webinars, Larry presents his current opinions on market activity. Attendees can also engage with Larry and ask questions during the live webinars.

Managing your Focus On Stocks subscription:

Once you are subscribed to Larry Williams' “Focus On Stocks,” you'll have access to his written articles from the StockCharts website. Larry will invite you to join his life “Family Gathering” webinar via Zoom each month. Access to the webinar will be provided through Larry's newsletter page on the StockCharts site, and a recording of each event will be posted after the live webinar.

Art's Charts

“Art's Charts” is a members-only blog updated several times per week by Arthur Hill, who discusses current market conditions and examines several stocks with interesting technical developments on their charts. Arthur frequently includes video commentary with his articles.

Arthur's blog can be accessed from the main Articles page. A link to his most recent article should be located near the top of the article listings. You can also find his blog in the “All StockCharts Blogs” dropdown on the right side of that page.

Managing your Art's Charts Subscription:
Members who are interested in getting email notifications whenever a new article is posted to “Art's Charts” can go to the subscription area at the bottom of any “Art's Charts” article, enter their email address and click the green “Notify Me!” button. A link in the email message can be used to unsubscribe.

Martin Pring's Market Roundup

“Martin Pring's Market Roundup” is a members-only blog that is updated once per week by Martin Pring and features his take on current market conditions. Once per month, Martin also includes a video summary in this blog.

Martin's blog can be accessed from the main Articles page. A link to his most recent article should be located near the top of the article listings. You can also find his blog in the “All StockCharts Blogs” dropdown on the right side of that page.

Managing your Market Roundup Subscription:
Members who are interested in getting email notifications whenever a new article is posted to “Martin Pring's Market Roundup” can go to the subscription area at the bottom of any “Martin Pring's Market Roundup” article, enter their email address and click the green “Notify Me!” button. A link in the email message can be used to unsubscribe.

New Article Notification Methods

Via Email

As discussed above, most of our blogs have a section at the end of each article where users can sign up to be notified by email whenever a new blog article is published. Just enter your email address and click the “Notify Me!” button.

A link in the notification email will allow you to unsubscribe from future notification messages. Please note that each blog's notification list is managed separately; unsubscribing from one blog will not unsubscribe you from any others.

Via Facebook

Most of our free articles also appear on our Facebook page. Facebook users can simply “Like” our page to see those articles in their Facebook newsfeed. You do not need to be a member of Facebook to view our Facebook page.

Via Twitter

We also post messages in our Twitter feed whenever new articles appear on our website. Twitter users can follow @StockCharts to see those messages. You do not need to be a member of Twitter to view our Twitter page.

Via Our RSS Feed

One of the best ways to follow our blogs is to use an “RSS Reader” (also called a “News Reader”) and subscribe to our RSS Feed here:
https://stockcharts.com/articles/atom.xml

For more on RSS Readers, please see this article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_aggregator

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How do I remove the social media icons that appear on the blog pages?
A: To remove the social media icons, move your mouse below the bottom icon and click on the gray triangle that appears.

Q: How can I contact one of the blog authors to ask a question?
A: The best way to contact a blog author is to use the comments area, which is located below each blog post.


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