The big lesson of the past year is that the broad market can go nowhere for several quarters, while many individual stocks launch like rockets and make stock pickers far richer than “indexers.”If I were to drop some names that worked for us during the last six, “meat grinder” months, I would have to mention Ambarella, Skyworks Solutions, Synaptics, Acadia […]
In times of high volatility, options are an incredibly valuable addition to any portfolio as part of a prudent risk-management strategy, or as a speculative, directionally neutral trade.After a trader has conducted their due diligence and enters a position, regardless of how certain they may be of the direction a volatile stock will take on, they are very much limited […]
Seymour warned that the fund sat in “overbought territory,” saying that it might soon pull back. Trader Brian Kelly agreed, adding that investors might want to take profits on biotech names next week.Some biotech names may not have exhausted their momentum, trader Guy Adami said. He believes that Celgene could move even higher, adding that Gilead and Amgen may have […]
Carter Worth calls the S&P’s year
Stocks bounce back as the S&P turns positive for the year. The technical take on stocks, with Sterne Agee Chief Technician Carter Worth, CNBC’s Jackie DeAngelis and the Futures Now Traders, Jim Iuorio and Jeff Kilburg, both at the CME.
The S&P 500 passed the first five days of the year with a gain, but just […]
Get Forex buy/sell signals directly to your email and by SMS.To learn more click hereDaily EUR/USD Technical AnalysisDaily EUR/USDThe EUR/USD overcame early session weakness and is now in a position to post a potentially bullish closing price reversal bottom on the daily chart.The short-covering began when the selling pressure dried up when the market traded 1.3152. The market accelerated to […]
Get Forex buy/sell signals directly to your email and by SMS.To learn more click hereSellers took control of the December Comex Gold market after detecting a somewhat hawkish tone in the U.S. Federal Reserve’s July minutes. The news helped drive up U.S. interest rates, making the U.S. Dollar a more desirable investment. Since gold is dollar denominated, the rise in […]
A CFD, or Contract for Difference, is an agreement between two parties to exchange the difference between the opening price and closing price of a contract.CFDs are derivatives products that allow you to trade on live market price movements without actually owning the underlying instrument on which your contract is based.A trader can use CFDs to speculate on the future […]
PLEASE NOTE: Trader Bob is out of town and in a hospital undergoing medical procedures all the week of May 19. This is not serious and has nothing to do with the stock market! Using a lap top and remote access to my home computer I will attempt to make minimal daily posts to this web site and show […]
As you’ve probably seen in my recent blog posts, we’ve been making a killing in the stock market this year. Thanks to the recent bull market, stocks are breaking out like crazy, making it easy for day traders to find profitable stock trades.Even our brand new Stock Trader Formula students are winning over 70% of their trades and making bank […]
