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How to Trade Marijuana, Now That It’s Legal
At the minute it became legal, “Cannabis was “flying off the shelves” in retail outlets and online stores across the country as soon as the clock struck midnight Wednesday (October 17). The demand…
Oct 23, 2018
This Clear Cut Signal Could Have Helped You Miss the Market Crash
Technical indicators can be useful. But, many indicators require a subjective evaluation. This makes technical indicators challenging to use. Indicators or trading tools can be broadly classified as…
Oct 16, 2018
How to Know Exactly When the Next Bear Market Starts
Let’s face it. We all want to know when the next bear market will start. Fortunately, there is a way to know. There are actually many tools that will tell us exactly when the bear market starts. Of…
Sep 27, 2018
What Florence Could Mean for Stocks
It’s a familiar story. A hurricane makes landfall and devastates a large area of land. There is a sad story from a human perspective. This year, the story is centered in North Carolina. Factset…
Sep 25, 2018
This is Where the Next Global Boom Could Start
It’s been ten years since Lehman Brothers collapsed, plunging the global financial system into chaos. Regulators and legislators have taken steps to ensure that crisis won’t happen again. But, like…
Sep 18, 2018
This Popular Indicator Can Be Improved Upon
Traders might disagree on whether a stock should be bought or sold. They might disagree on the name of the pattern they spot on the chart. But, one thing they do seem to agree on is that indicators…
Sep 6, 2018
Here’s What to Expect From Facebook
In many ways, the stock market is nothing more than a large pool of data. That means whenever something happens, even something that appears to be unprecedented, that is almost certainly a precedent.…
Jul 31, 2018
Bad News in the Employment Report Shows the Bull Market Is Near an End
Good news for the economy continues to appear. The Wall Street Journal noted that “Economists expect the low U.S. unemployment rate to go even lower over the next year, reaching levels not seen in a…
Jul 17, 2018
Oil, Iran and Saudi Arabia
The price of oil is widely followed because oil is critical to economic growth. But, it’s also a chicken and egg type of question. Economic growth drives demand for oil. That raises the price of oil.…
Jul 10, 2018
The Best Way to Read a Chart
Chart reading has been the subject of analysis for almost 100 years. The first book on the subject was likely published in 1930. Richard W. Schabacker published Technical Analysis and Stock Market…
Jun 21, 2018
Hedge Funds Are Buying These Cheap Stocks
Many analysts point to the fact that, as a group, hedge funds tend to deliver average to below average performance. That is true, but that is also not really a relevant fact to most investors. To…
May 31, 2018
6 Stocks That Analysts Say Could Double
Wall Street analysts often focus their research on up and coming companies. They do this for a couple of reasons. One reason is that they hope to generate new business. Another reason is that they…
May 17, 2018
Is Walmart the Next Amazon?
Recently Walmart announced plans to acquire a 77% stake in India’s Flipkart for $16 billion. Flipkart is an Indian eCommerce company that was initially focused on book sales, but soon expanded into…
May 15, 2018
How Small Investors can Benefit from Large Caps
Large cap stocks can be among the safest stock market investments. These are large companies and are known as blue chip investments. A blue chip company is defined as “a nationally recognized,…
May 3, 2018
Anatomy of a Trading Range
In general, we like to see stocks going up and dread extended declines. Although individual investors will all have different time frames they consider, they tend to define an up trend as a series of…
Mar 27, 2018
The Best Technical Trading Strategies
Technical analysis is the study of prices. Proponents of the discipline argue that history has a tendency to repeat and a study of market action in the past can be a useful tool for forecasting the…
Mar 8, 2018
The Dancer Who Made $2 Million Trading Stocks
One of the greatest investment books ever published was written by a professional dancer. The 1960 book, How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market, was written by Nicolas Darvas. Other than his…
Feb 27, 2018
What It Really Means When a Company Beats Earnings Estimates
As investors we hear it all the time. The analyst comes on CNBC and tells us a stock is soaring because the company beat earnings estimates. Or, we notice a stock is falling sharply and when we…
Feb 20, 2018
Indicators That Spot a Market Bottom
Now that the stock market has finally delivered a pull back, it is important to think about which indicators will signal the likely completion of the down move. It is also important to remember that…
Feb 13, 2018
Analysts Tap These Cheap Stocks for Growth
One big story keeps coming up in the stock market. It’s tax reform. Analysts are still sorting through the implications of the new rules but there is a general agreement that changes to the tax code…
Jan 25, 2018