Here at Bespoke, we’re respected and trusted for our thoughtful investment research.  But many in the industry do not even know that we also have an easy-to-use set of extremely useful investor tools that are available at very attractive pricing compared to competitors.

Today we want to show you a number of these investor tools.  We might just have exactly what you’ve been looking for all these years!  And you can gain access with a 14-day free trial right now.

Upon logging in as a Bespoke subscriber and clicking on our Tools page, you’ve got easy access to everything.  The first tool to highlight is our Trend Analyzer, highlighted in yellow below:

Our Trend Analyzer uses a proprietary algorithm to identify how stocks and ETFs are trending.  Use it to monitor your own positions for new uptrends or downtrends or overbought/oversold levels.  You can also use it to find new stocks or ETFs that are trading at attractive entry points.

Next up is our Chart Scanner, which is a chart reader’s dream.

Our Chart Scanner lets you browse through hundreds of charts in a matter of minutes.  It’s one of our favorite tools for finding new stocks or ETFs to buy based on technicals.  If you like a chart and want to monitor it going forward, simply click on the chart’s “bull” icon, and we’ll store that chart for you in your “My Charts” section.  You simply have to use this tool to understand how helpful it really is!

Ever wonder about the “January Effect” or “Sell in May, and Go Away”?  Our Seasonality Tool is the place to go.

Our Seasonality Tool tells you how the S&P 500 typically trades over any time frame throughout the trading year based on historical patterns.  You can also track seasonality trends for other countries and asset classes, US sectors and groups, and even individual stocks.

Our Earnings Explorer is one of the most comprehensive and complete databases of upcoming and historical earnings reports in existence.  We’ve been collecting quarterly earnings info for US stocks for nearly two decades, and all of it is available to you with this tool.

Our Earnings Explorer contains a full calendar of upcoming earnings reports across the US stock market.  It also contains historical quarterly reports for nearly every US company over the last 20 years.  And it has a screening feature so you can seek out new trade ideas based on healthy (or unhealthy) stock-specific earnings trends.

This is another tool you simply have to see to believe!  Once you use it, you won’t know how you got by without it.

Our Economic Monitor is the place to go for anything related to recent or upcoming economic releases both in the US and around the world.

Use the Economic Monitor to stay on top of estimates for upcoming economic releases.  This tool features a full economic indicators calendar for both the US and the rest of the world.  We also provide in-depth analysis of Federal Reserve commentary and other major central banks across the globe.

Our International Revenues tool is a must-have for serious investors.  Every investor should know the geographic revenue breakdown for companies they own.

Companies that generate most or all of their revenues outside of the US are much different than companies that generate most or all of their revenues domestically.  When the US dollar is rising, versus the rest of the world, “domestic” companies stand to benefit.  The opposite is true when the dollar is falling or international economies are outperforming the US.  Our International Revenues tool tells you the domestic vs. international revenue breakdown for every stock in the S&P 500 and Russell 1,000.

Our Triple Plays tool features stocks that we consider to be the “cream of the crop” based on earnings trends.

A “triple play” occurs when a company reports earnings and 1) beats consensus analyst EPS estimates, 2) beats consensus analyst sales estimates, and 3) raises forward guidance.  Over the years, a large number of our long ideas for our model portfolios have come from this list of recent earnings triple plays.

Our Economic Indicators database contains historical data for every major US economic release (40+).

If you ever need historical data for economic indicators, this database has it.  Easily pull up historical release info for every major US economic indicator.  It contains the actual reported number at the time of the release along with the consensus economist estimate at the time.  We also include helpful info for traders that shows how the S&P 500 and major sectors reacted on the day of the release.  We also show how the equity market typically trades in reaction to a better or worse than expected report.

Our Security Analysis page helps you analyze individual stocks and ETFs.

Use our Security Analysis page for stocks or ETFs that you want to analyze.  We include upcoming earnings info, trend and timing analysis, price charts and technical tools, and historical earnings information.  You can also read up on any research we’ve done on the ticker you’ve searched for.

Our Biggest Movers tool is a simple way to monitor the stock market’s biggest movers on a daily basis.

Each day you can use our Biggest Movers tool to find the stocks and ETFs that experienced the biggest price changes or biggest volume surges.

Remember, our Tools section is just one part of what members gain access to.  You also gain access to our flagship investment research product as well as our Custom Portfolios tool, which helps you easily monitor the stocks and ETFs most important to you.  Today you can gain access to EVERYTHING — the research, the tools, the custom portfolios — with a 14-day free trial.  We think you’ll find that it’s well worth it.  If you don’t, you can cancel at any time.  CLICK HERE TO START YOUR 14-DAY FREE TRIAL NOW.

As equities have rebounded from coronavirus fears in the past week, reaching fresh all-time highs, sentiment has not shared in the gains as it continues to hold a slight bearish bias.  AAII’s reading on bullish sentiment rose slightly from 31.98% last week to 33.87% this week.  While higher than last week, it was not nearly as large an increase as you would expect given the market rebound.

AAII’s reading on bearish sentiment ticked down 1.64 percentage points to 35.22%.  That is still well above the lows in the 20s that have been observed over the past few months.  With both bullish and bearish sentiment little changed, the bull-bear spread remains in the bear’s favor for a second week in a row.

Neutral sentiment was also little changed this week falling just 0.26 percentage points to 30.91%. This week marked back-to-back weeks with a greater share of respondents reporting bullish or bearish sentiment than neutral. That has not been the case much over the past year as the last time neutral sentiment did not outweigh either bullish or bearish sentiment was the final week of December and the first week of January of last year.

Again, although prices have moved higher in the past week, sentiment has not. While AAII results were little changed, another sentiment survey, the Investors Intelligence (II) sentiment survey is more prominently echoing a bearish bias.  This survey’s reading on bullish sentiment actually fell from 58.9% to 55.1%; the lowest since early December.  Bearish sentiment from this survey, on the other hand, rose to its highest level (17.8%) since November.

In addition to asking for bearishness and bullishness, the II survey also checks on the percentage of respondents that are “looking for a correction.”  Since the beginning of the data, it has averaged ~25%, but over the past decade, it has generally been higher, averaging 29.6%. More recently, though, these readings have been more muted, but the five percentage point increase this week on top of a 5.6 percentage point increase the week before has brought the indicator to 33.3%; its highest reading since the fall. In fact, up until this move it was below 30% for 15 consecutive weeks.

While that is not any sort of extreme reading at ~33%—with a history of much higher readings over the past several years—that aforementioned streak is perhaps more notable.  Since 2000, there have only been 13 other such streaks in which Investors Intelligence’s reading on “looking for a correction” rose above 30% after not having done so for 15 weeks or more. The last time this happened was in October of 2018. Following past occurrences, returns for the S&P 500 have actually been stronger than normal one week, one month, and 6 months out, but 3 months and one year later, the market has experienced underperformance. Granted, one year out the S&P 500 has been higher 79.92% of the time. Start a two-week free trial to Bespoke Institutional to access our full suite of research and interactive tools.

Initial jobless claims were forecast to drop slightly this week from 217K to 215K. Instead, this morning’s release was much better than expected falling to 202K.  That is the biggest one-week decline since mid-December’s 17K decline as the indicator now sits at its lowest level since April’s cycle and half-century low of 193K.

With the seasonally adjusted number falling in seven of the last eight weeks, the four-week moving average has continued to grind lower.  This week, it has fallen 3K down to 211.75K, which is only 10.25K above the cycle low that was put in place the week of April 12th of last year.  Now, the moving average is at its lowest level since the week after that cycle low when the moving average totaled 206K. Additionally, the moving average has fallen for five consecutive weeks which is the longest such streak since September of 2018.

As mentioned above, seasonally adjusted jobless claims are now just off of their cycle lows in terms of both the level of the data and the moving average.  That is a welcome sign considering it has been quite some time, 42 weeks to be exact, since the data has last put in a cycle low.  That is the joint longest streak—alongside another 42 week long streak in 2015—since the 44 week long streak that came to a close on July 11th of 2014. As for the 4-week moving average, the current 42-week run is tied with a streak that ended in December of 2012 for the longest streak of the current cycle without a new cycle low.

The non-seasonal adjusted data has been similarly strong as it works through its seasonal downdraft.  Non-adjusted claims fell to 224.4K this week, which is well below the average for the current week of the year since 2000 of 380.32K in addition to the comparable weeks of the past few years.  Start a two-week free trial to Bespoke Institutional to access our interactive economic indicators monitor and much more.

Of the stocks that have skyrocketed in the last few weeks, there is one that might come as a surprise: International Business Machines (IBM).  This left-for-dead technology giant reported earnings on January 21st with strong results. Big blue reported an earnings triple play with EPS 2 cents above estimates, sales $155.1 mm above estimates, and raised guidance.  The stock rose 3.39% in response, but in the following days, those gains did not hold.  Fortunately for IBM, its recent earnings report is not the only reason it has been in the news lately.  Less than a week ago, the company announced that the president and CEO of the past eight years, Ginni Rometty, will be stepping down in April. This resulted in the stock jumping over 5% last Friday with considerable follow-through since then. As of today, IBM has risen 11.75% from the close prior to its earnings report and 13.72% since the CEO announcement, taking out previous highs from the fall.

Not only has this move taken out late September/early October highs, but it has also brought the stock to fresh 52-week highs as shown in the chart below.  Today’s further gain of another ~5% leaves IBM around 3% above the July high of $151.36.

While IBM has broken out on a shorter-term chart, the technical picture over the long run is at more of a crossroads.  For much of the past decade, IBM has been stuck in a prolonged downtrend. The run-up over the past couple of weeks has brought IBM right to the top of resistance at this downtrend line. A breakout above this line would be a promising sign.

At the same time, the fundamental picture still is attractive relative to its peers.  IBM currently has one of the lowest valuations and highest yields of the S&P 500’s Technology sector stocks.  Currently trading at 11.96x earnings, IBM is deeply discounted when compared to the average P/E for the sector of 41.8.  Additionally, even with the recent move, IBM yields 4.14%, which is second only to Seagate Technology’s (STX) 4.74% yield, which is the highest in the sector.

Again, in spite of its low valuation, IBM is very overbought. Thanks to the over 10% rally in the past five days, IBM has now moved over 4 standard deviations above its 50-DMA, meaning it could be due for some mean reversion.  Looking back through the stock’s history, there have only been 14 other times that it has risen over 10% in a five-day span without having done so in the prior year.  After prior 10%+ rallies in the span of 5 days, the stock has averaged a decline of 0.86% over the next week.  Over the next year, however, IBM has averaged a gain of 12.6%.  Start a two-week free trial to Bespoke Institutional to access all of our premium research and interactive tools.