Overestimating your swimming ability and underestimating the riptide is a recipe for disaster. The same is true in the markets. What may look like a broadening out of performance can turn into a new trend – a tide – which takes you out to “sea” if you aren’t in the right stocks. It’s like a “riptide warning.”

Thankfully, we have an investing guide here at Chaikin Analytics to help us… You see, our Power Gauge system doesn’t just track fundamentals. It also gives us technical indicators. And the one I tend to rely on the most is relative strength.