Stock Trading Alert: Stocks Fluctuate Following Recent Move Up – Will Uptrend Extend Even Further?By: Paul Rejczak | Fri, Nov 28, 2014SharePrintEmailStock Trading Alert originally published on November 28, 2014, 6:40 AM:Briefly: In our opinion, speculative short positions are favored (with stop-loss at 2,085 and profit target at 1,950, S&P 500 index).Our intraday outlook is bearish, and our short-term outlook […]
Stock Trading Alert: No Clear Short-Term Direction As Stocks Fluctuate Along Record HighsBy: Paul Rejczak | Wed, Nov 26, 2014SharePrintEmailStock Trading Alert originally published on November 26, 2014, 6:26 AM:Briefly: In our opinion, speculative short positions are favored (with stop-loss at 2,085 and profit target at 1,950, S&P 500 index).Our intraday outlook is bearish, and our short-term outlook is bearish:Intraday […]
Robert Shiller, Business InsiderYesterday, I mentioned again that I am increasingly concerned about the level of stock prices. Specifically, I said that, even if stock prices continue to go higher from here, which they might, I think that they’ll eventually crash back down below today’s levels — possibly far below. Even if stocks don’t eventually crash, but just move sideways, I […]
View gallery.Last week’s market price action was somewhat like watching paint peel. In other words, there just wasn’t much going on.Even though the market edged higher for the fourth straight week and the S&P 500 hit new record highs, the gains came during the smallest market moves since 1979.After Monday, the benchmark S&P rose or fell less than 0.1 percent […]
View gallery.With the help of an almost vertical rise in the overall stock market, most industries within the market have also performed very well. As they say, “a rising tide raises all ships.”Some industries, however, have performed better than others. For example, airlines and railroads have been the two top-performing industries, while gold miners have been the worst.Another industry that’s […]
In China, children have their hair cut on the second day of the second lunar month of the year, all for good luck. Superstition and the search for luck are part of human nature, as any investor soon finds out. Photograph: Zhang Duan/REX/Zhang Duan/REX
Every so often there’s an investor who has staying power– people like Warren Buffett or Peter Lynch […]
U.S. Economy and Mid-Terms, What Now?Ben Benoy+ , November 7, 2014 0 0 0 0A new balance of power has been ushered into the Senate.The United States Marine Corps taught me to embrace fresh leadership because that’s one of the principal mechanisms that keeps our institutions truly focused on their core values and ethos.The Republicans have gained back the […]
You have to wonder why a startup is named after an English folklore hero who stole from the rich to give to the poor.For the founders of Robinhood, the inspiration came from the fees that stock brokerage firms charge their customers simply for making trades. To fight these fees, the company announced today that it has raised $13 million in […]
Stock Market Status Quo….Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Aug 30, 2014 – 12:39 PM GMTBy: Jack_SteimanThis an abbreviated holiday edition.Folks, to be honest, there’s not much to day about this market that we haven’t discussed repeatedly for weeks, if not months. There are a number of issues the market is facing that one would think would be the beginning of the […]
Stock Market Negative Expectations Following Short-Term ConsolidationStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Aug 28, 2014 – 02:21 PM GMTBy: Paul_RejczakBriefly: In our opinion, speculative short positions are favored (with stop-loss at 2,030, and a profit target at 1,900, S&P 500 index)Our intraday outlook is bearish, and our short-term outlook is bearish:Intraday (next 24 hours) outlook: bearishShort-term (next 1-2 weeks) outlook: bearishMedium-term (next […]
