AEROTERROR: A regular flight from Caracas to Tehran carried more drugs and money than people by BusinessInsider.com : Wednesday 03:14:42 CTCategories: markets, streamFrom 2007 to at least 2010, there was a flight from Caracas, Venezuela to Tehran, Iran that made a stop in Damascus, Syria.Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reportedly called it ‘Aeroterror.’ Only government officials with a special clearance […]
Author’s impression of today’s stock market…Post-FOMC, everything’s not looking so awesome…Small Caps were the biggest lower on the day, followed by Nasdaq, Trannies and The Dow & S&P… but the drop was very uniform…and started as the cash markets opened…The Dow has fallen back into the Red YTD and the S&P is close…Financials are now down 2% from before Yellen…Biotechs […]
Source: Celgene Corp.Biotech companies have been among the market’s best-performing stocks, and that means many of the industry’s top stocks have soared to lofty levels that might have kept investors on the sidelines. Since sliding markets are likely to take biotech stocks lower, investors could soon have their first chance in a long time to buy into some great companies […]
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 […]
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 […]
Is there some secret holiday at work in the stock and currency markets that I’m unaware of? Volume is non-existent, with only deal buzz potentially stirring the Street from this spring slumber.Conditions can only be characterized as rail-thin, holiday-like volumes that leave major stock averages teetering just below record highs.In fact, the bond market has rallied for three days in […]
Improved consumer-price index failed to cheer markets as the benchmarks settled in the red for the second consecutive day. While utilities sector dragged benchmarks lower, strong housing numbers could only boost the housing stocks. Benchmarks had gained momentarily, but they gave up all their initial gains after the dollar started moving higher against the euro. Tuesday also marked the second […]
Everyone likes a great deal, and there’s no biotech stock I’d love to see go on sale more than Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG).Celgene’s blockbuster drugs, industry-leading profitability, and rock-solid balance sheet put it among the elite companies in the business. As a result, the company hasn’t given investors too many chances to buy its shares at a bargain price. But if […]
Here’s how to protect your profits in biotech: Trader
Susquehanna’s Stacey Gilbert thinks biotech could be due for a pullback. She lays out an options strategy to protect your biotech holdings.
It’s been a record-breaking run for biotech stocks, with the Nasdaq Biotech ETF, the IBB, up 18 percent this year alone and nearly 300 percent in the past five years. But […]
The Stockbee 50 is a list of stocks with above average momentum. You can use the list for anticipation breakout or for breakout trades.Anticipation requires more pre planning and effort than buying a breakout. You need a process flow to do that. The process should be done daily and followed consistently. Anticipating a breakout and entering with very close stop […]
