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5 Warren Buffet Stocks to Buy for New Investors
Warren Buffett is known for being a value investor. The concept of value investing, and fundamental investing generally, is to buy stocks at a discount. If you were to look at Berkshire Hathaway’s…
Aug 13, 2020
How Many Stocks Should I Own?
What a Well-Balanced Portfolio Should Look Like Investors who are just starting out in the stock market either take one of two paths. If they’re risk-averse, they may start investing with a mutual…
Aug 12, 2020
Tesla Announces Stock Split as Insiders Sell Shares Into Highs
Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) appears to be following the trend of Apple and is partaking in a 5-for-1 split. The resulting price will trade at one-fifth the price and shareholders before the split get…
Aug 12, 2020
Bearish Bets Build Ahead of Cisco’s Earnings Report on Wednesday
Cisco Systems, Inc (NASDAQ: CSCO) announces earnings today after the market closes. While the actual results are unknown, traders are positioning themselves ahead of the report to profit. The great…
Aug 12, 2020
5 High Beta Stocks that are Breaking Out
On Monday, we posted about ETFs to watch this week. One of those was the Invesco S&P 500 High Beta ETF. As you scan down the list of top holdings, you’ll see a number of companies that have high…
Aug 12, 2020
How Long Should I Hold a Stock?
How to Form a Selling Strategy Most investors think a lot about what to buy, when to buy, how much to buy, and how much to pay. Whether they use a value investing strategy or are more…
Aug 11, 2020
After the Month in a Decade, Option Traders are Looking for a Major Reversal in the Dollar
After posting the worst monthly performance in a decade, the U.S. dollar has been able to hold its ground. The value of the dollar is typically determined by the exchange rates of the world’s major…
Aug 11, 2020
Axis Capital is Attracting Insider Buying from Director in a Big Way
Axis Capital Holdings Ltd (NYSE: AXS) is a $3.61 billion property and casualty company that saw a surge in buying activity last week from an independent director of the company named Charles A.…
Aug 11, 2020
5 Earnings Reports to Watch this Week and What to Expect
It’s been a surprising Q2 earnings season so far. With over 80% of companies beating estimates and earnings growth coming in higher than expected, it has led Goldman Sachs to raise their earnings…
Aug 11, 2020
Are Option Bears Readying a Pullback in Technology: Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA: XLK)
As the S&P 500 finished higher on Friday to end the week, it was the Technology sector that seemed to lose its way. While the sector finished in the middle of the pack for the week in terms of…
Aug 10, 2020
Jeff Bezos Selling for First Time In 6 Months: Amazon.com, Inc Stock (NASDAQ: AMZN)
It’s been six months since Amazon.com, Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) Chairman, President and CEO Jeff Bezos has sold shares. As Amazon is struggling with the high altitude of its price, he’s selling again.…
Aug 10, 2020
8 ETFs to Watch this Week for Big Moves
An ETF is a conglomeration of companies that are typically organized by market cap, index, or industry. The idea is to group similar companies together that allows investors some opportunity to…
Aug 10, 2020
How Did Warren Buffett Get Rich?
At one point the world’s wealthiest, billionaire Warren Buffett is still one of the richest today with an estimated net worth over $73 billion dollars. That’s a lot of money! While best known today…
Aug 7, 2020
Option Bulls Catching a Ride Ahead of Earnings: LYFT Inc Stock (NASDAQ: LYFT)
After the market close on Thursday, it was up to Uber Technologies Inc (NYSE: UBER) to give a hint at the state of rideshare companies following the advent of COVID-19. While the company was down…
Aug 7, 2020
Multiple Insider Buys as Company Issues Preferred Stock Offering: WesBanco Inc Stock (NASDAQ: WSBC)
Eight different insiders stepped up to buy shares of WesBanco Inc (NASDAQ: WSBC) preferred offering that was issued on August 4. For the Wheeling, WV bank, it’s an indication of positive expectations…
Aug 7, 2020
3 Restaurant Stocks for ‘Foodie’ Investors
There probably hasn’t been a more impacted industry than restaurants since all of the COVID-19 closures were sent down by executive orders in almost every community in the world. The Yelp data…
Aug 7, 2020
7 Best Blue Chip Stocks to Buy Right Now 2020
Far from the world of small cap penny stocks are the big, safe names in the investing universe. Dubbed the blue chips, these companies tend to be industry leaders with the size and scale to continue…
Aug 6, 2020
Large Option Spread Placed on Gold ETF: VanEck Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (NYSEARCA: GDXJ)
If you though the bullish run in gold prices was over, the indications from the options market is arguing that you’re wrong. On Wednesday, a large option spread trade was made on the VanEck Vectors…
Aug 6, 2020
Is this Stock About to Lose Its Course: Charter Communications Inc Stock (NASDAQ: CHTR)
Charter Communications Inc Stock (NASDAQ: CHTR) announced earnings on July 31 and blew away analyst estimates. If you’re an insider and were of the mind that the trend would continue, would you buy,…
Aug 6, 2020
4 Stocks with Significant Option Activity and Moving on Stimulus Hopes
Following Wednesday’s ADP Non-Farm Employment report showing only 167,000 jobs added the against 1.2 million jobs estimate, the pressure is on for Washington to pass a stimulus bill. With the…
Aug 6, 2020