After neglecting my writing for some time the New Year is as good as any to begin the practice gain. Upon reviewing 2014 I’ve decided to drop a few things from my tool box while replacing them with some fresher ideas that I’ve been working on. The first wrench that I plan to use more frequently is using sectors through […]
http://www.investablewealth.com/wealthsteading/podcastepisodes/wsp_067_150101.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes | Episode 67: The number one mistake in failing to build wealth is not saving enough. Number two is making poor investment decisions. The financial industry wants everyone to think they’re an investors…so that they can charge you fees. Most people shouldn’t be classified as investors…first you must EARN and then SAVE.Don’t […]
TraderFeed: Some Dark Clouds on the Stock Market Horizon
Some Dark Clouds on the Stock Market HorizonIt’s been a great run in stocks from the mid-October lows, fueled by significant buying pressure coming out of those lows. By mid-November, my measures were showing diminished upside momentum, but not the kind of weakness that would normally lead to meaningful intermediate-term corrections. By […]
The Best Trades of 2014Posted by Ivanhoff
on November 25th, 2014
Share on StockTwitsLet’s take a look at the most notable moves in 2014.Apple is up almost 50% in 2014 after massively underperforming the market in 2013. Google was on the other side of the performance spectrum. After going up more than 50% in 2013, it is about flat in 2014, so […]
The number of patients with this chronic liver disease, which can lead to permanent liver scarring, eclipses that of hepatitis C in the U.S., RBC’s Yee said. While a significant number aren’t diagnosed, “we believe, based on survey work, that there are hundreds of thousands of patients with diagnosed NASH,” and that the global market for NASH drugs may reach […]
When small-cap stocks are outperforming their large-cap brethren, it can be a sign of speculative excess in the market, and when the small stocks start going down …. a sign of a broader correction to come.We have seen signs of all these divergences leading up to the market’s most recent pull back. We’ve also seen major market averages break below […]
When it comes to the stock market, while the biggest, and according to many only, beneficiary of the Fed’s ZIRP/QE policies of the past 6 years has been the wealthiest 1%, the reality is that said top crust of US society no longer needs the S&P to continue its relentless, manipulated and centrally-planned levitation.Between a third Hamptons residence, a 5th […]
At the beginning of June, I was at the Gartner CIO & IT Executive Summit in Berlin. It was an interesting event to attend in terms of the advice given to the CIOs at the event, how to deal with the “digital industrial revolution” and how to support the CEO’s top business priorities.From the Gartner survey, a CEO’s top five […]
Recent posts have focused on ways of gauging broad market strength and weakness by tracking the wide range of individual stocks, rather than by relying solely upon a stock index. These market gauges include the percentage of stocks trading above their volume-weighted average prices; the upticks and downticks among all stocks trading in the U.S; and intraday new highs and […]
Last weekend my wife remarked how torrid the world appeared to be at the moment. Indeed, unless you’ve had your head in the sand, you’ll know global tensions have been on the rise this year. Using RavenPack’s macroeconomic and geopolitical data set, we can see the elevated the number of geopolitical events taking place and how depressed sentiment has become.
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