While the indexes had a nice 2 day rally Fri/Mon, it was difficult to really trust it because some secondary indicators (such as the NYSE McClellan Oscillator we cite often) have been trending in the wrong way. Today was a good example of why you want those secondary indicators to be in our favor before going all in, on a […]
Yours truly can breath again having held his breath for probably longer than is safe, losing a few brain cells along the way. The enforced hypoxia experienced in my short bund holdings has been somewhat similar to that portrayed in movies where the hero manages to free himself from the sinking car and make it to the surface with only […]
I borrowed this blog post from Michail Shadkin aka @EpicaCapital . I am posting it here so I can read it often. This a copy and paste and no editing has been done.6 types of relative strength/weakness very specific to MY intraday trading.Everybody has heard of relative strength and relative weakness, but what exactly is the strength/weakness relative […]
Stock Market Last Hurrah?Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015May 04, 2015 – 07:20 PM GMTBy: Andre_GratianCurrent Position of the MarketSPX: Long-term trend – The bull market is still intact.Intermediate trend – Is the 7-yr cycle sketching an important top?Analysis of the short-term trend is done on a daily basis with the help of hourly charts. They are important adjuncts to the […]
Berkshire Hathaway chief executive Warren Buffett plays the ukulele in a video prior to the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on Saturday. Photograph: Rick Wilking/Reuters
Warren Buffett has warned that stock prices will appear expensive if interest rates increase from their current ultra-low levels.“If we get back to normal interest rates, stocks at these prices will look high,” said […]
Share on StockTwitsEmbedI am being asked by many new followers for a refresher crash course in how I look at markets…here goes:I believe you should invest in stocks, but if you are to take the time, aim to crush the averages.The best way for ME (not necessarily you) to do this has been trend investing and angel investing.Drawdowns are inevitable […]
By Ben LevisohnIt’s been a bad, bad week for biotech stocks. The iShares Nasdaq Biotech Index ETF (IBB) had dropped 9.3% this week through Thursday’s close, while Amgen (AMGN), Biogen Idec (BIIB), and Celgene (CELG) also suffered big losses. Evercore ISI’s Mark Schoenebaum notes that the valuations of big biotech companies is trading below that of the S&P 500 for only the […]
Cuba once had a stock market, the La Bolsa de Valores de la Habana, which lasted from the 1920s until 1959, when the Cuban revolution ended private ownership in the country. The Havana exchange was, in fact, one of the largest stock exchanges in Latin America.Now, as President Obama moves the U.S. closer to ending the 60-year-old trade embargo with […]
Comedy movies and risky stock trading – linked?Attention stock-market followers – have you considered whether weekend comedy-movie attendance, and investment in risky stock-market assets on the following Monday might be linked? This question has been the subject of an in-depth investigation by Gabriele M. Lepori, (formerly) Assistant Professor of Finance at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (now at Keele Management School, […]
Following a volatile end to April, on whose last day many decided to frontrun “selling in May before going away”, the world has taken a breather and overnight China was closed to celebrate May day, unable to celebrate the “beat” of the official Chinese Manufacturing PMI which printed unchanged from last month, at 50.1, goalseeked to beat the consensus expectation […]
