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Stock Trading Alert: Stocks Fluctuate Near Their Recent Highs | Paul …

Stock Trading Alert: Stocks Fluctuate Near Their Recent Highs By: Paul Rejczak | Mon, Feb 24, 2014 SharePrintEmailOriginally published on Feb 24, 2014, 6:10 a.m.
Our intraday outlook remains bearish, and our short-term outlook is neutral:
Intraday (next 24 hours) outlook: bearishShort-term (next 1-2 weeks) outlook: neutralMedium-term (next 1-3 months) outlook: neutralLong-term outlook (next year): bullish
The U.S. stock market indexes […]

Personal Finance Apprentice: How To Trade Stocks during Bull …

The are quite a number of different stock investing strategies. We can choose which ones fit us best. But sometimes the choice isn’t all about what we want.The stock market is a chaotic place. A lot of things can happen. And, like most other things in life, different situations call for different actions.To be honest, cost-averaging over the long-term is […]

Fed There To Protect….. Overbought Stock Market Finally Unwinds …

Fed There To Protect….. Overbought Stock Market Finally Unwinds…..Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Feb 20, 2014 – 05:03 AM GMTBy: Jack_Steiman

Ok, back to basics folks. What is the job of the Fed? We’ve gone over this many times. The Fed has one job and only one job. To watch the stock market. When Wall Street is happy Main […]

Everything You Need to Know About Stock Market Crashes | The Big …

Since everyone is talking about stock market crashes this week, let’s add some context here…Since the invention of the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the turn of the last century, there have been eleven instances in which stocks declined by more than 35% from peak to trough, or what you would term a market crash. We’ll talk about how the […]

Stock Market Showing Strength….Spread Lower Still… :: The Market …

Stock Market Showing Strength….Spread Lower Still…Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Feb 13, 2014 – 09:20 AM GMTBy: Jack_Steiman

It is so interesting to watch how rapidly something can happen within the machine known as the stock market. It wasn’t very long ago that the bull-bear spread was 46%. Bulls themselves we’re at 61%, an incredibly high number. This morning, […]

Stock Market Waiting on Yellen…. :: The Market Oracle :: Financial …

Stock Market Waiting on Yellen….Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Feb 11, 2014 – 09:55 AM GMTBy: Jack_Steiman

The market is sitting pretty much on the 50-day exponential moving average on the S&P 500. It will be very important for the short-term to see if we can break back above, or whether these 50’s cause the next move lower. The […]

Stock Market: Goldilocks Meets the Fragile Five and the Three Bears

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen-oung/The porridge for stock market investors was hot in 2013, with the S&P 500 index skyrocketing +30 percent, while the porridge for bond investors was too cold, losing -4 percent last year (AGG). Like Goldilocks, investors are waiting to get more aggressive with their investment portfolios once everything feels “just right.” Dragging one’s feet too long is not the […]

The Yeshiva World Lander College Junior Wins Stock Market …

Aaron Benia, a junior at the Lander College for Men (LCM), won the school’s fall semester Stock Market Challenge, his third victory in the last four contests. A psychology major with a minor in marketing management, Benia had an incredible 28 percent return on investments.The bi-annual contest, organized by senior Avraham Weiser and junior Shlomi Landesman, is an opportunity for […]

Is The Stock Market's Smoothest Ride Priced Like A Cadillac …

By David L. Allison, CFA, CIPMHere’s a sure-fire way to get gouged: Walk onto a car lot, ask a salesperson to point out the vehicle with the smoothest ride, then purchase that vehicle regardless of price.It sounds reckless, but this is not far from the logic individual investors are using when shopping for the smoothest ride in the stock market.You […]