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3 Stocks With Premium To Trade Into The Summer … – Minyanville

The stock market goes through cycles of volume tied to the time of year. The saying “sell in May and go away” has long been an adage shared by many traders. As the weather is getting warmer and many investors’ thoughts begin to shift to the beach, options traders like myself will begin to adjust their trading plans to accommodate […]

Crafting Big Data Curricula to Support the Changing Business …

Jonathan E. Helm, Assistant Professor of Operations and Decision TechnologiesIndiana University Kelley School of BusinessBy Jonathan E. HelmThe opportunity around big data is seemingly endless. Big data seems to be everywhere and is a part of everything – embedded in e-commerce, social media and electronic health records. Organizations large and small are presented with an opportunity to leverage the vast […]

The Augmented Trader: Forecasting Stock Market Strength Using …

A new blog from Lucena’s CTO, Tucker Balch, Ph.D!“It is clear, in hindsight, that investors would have done better in 2008 if they had known to move from stocks to fixed income at the beginning of 2008. And similarly, if we could anticipate future bull markets we’d like to be able to shift assets into equities beforehand. Is it possible […]

What if the Stock Market Were a Bond? Crossing Wall Street

What if the Stock Market Were a Bond?Here’s an update to one of my more off-the-wall ideas. I was curious to see what the historical performance of the stock market looks like, but in the form of a bond.Crazy? Let me explain.I took all of the historical market performance of the Wilshire 5000 (including dividends) and invented a hypothetical long-term […]

Stock Market Returns Cannot Exceed Intrinsic Value Growth Forever …

“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”“Economists are very good at saying that something cannot go on forever, but not so good at saying when it will stop.”– Herbert Stein, former chair of the Council of Economic AdvisersS&P 500 earnings grew approximately 9% for the two-year period from the beginning of 2012 through the end of 2013. Over […]

Stock Market Forecast 2014 Thought Experiment Revisited :: The …

Stock Market Forecast 2014 Thought Experiment RevisitedStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Feb 11, 2014 – 10:07 AM GMTBy: PhilStockWorld

Courtesy of Doug Short: With 66% of Q4-13 earnings complete, here is the latest update of my ongoing “thought experiment” for forecasting the S&P 500 price based on earnings fundamentals.The previous two months, I issued a […]

This week could determine where stocks close out 2014 – CNBC.com

In all years going back to 1927, the S&P has risen 57 out of 86 times, for a 66 percent positive record. But if the first five trading days of the year are positive, then the probability of a positive year rises from 64 percent to 77 percent, according to Oppenheimer’s chief market technician, Carter Worth. On […]

What's driving big data and predictive analytics in 2014? | News …

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The Stock Market After The Rally Year [SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust …

The exceptional market year of 2013 is winding down and all but the most die-hard bears are sad to see it go. Even amid uncommonly bitter partisanship in Washington and a host of other policy and economic issues, the market sailed blithely through every storm, rarely retracing more than a few percentage points and using every dip to push to […]

A look ahead: Stock market resolutions for 2014 – Charlotte Observer

NEW YORK 2013 was a great year for the average investor, but few market strategists believe that 2014 will be anywhere near as good. The simple strategy of buying U.S. stocks, selling bonds and staying out of international markets isn’t going to work as well as it has, they say. Some of […]