Two-thirds of new investors in China’s recent stock market rally didn’t finish high school according to economists at Bloomberg.The Shanghai Composite Index, arguably the country’s most important stock market, has been on a roll since mid-2014 and shows no sign of stopping. This has puzzled economists given that China’s economy has of late shown some serious signs of weakness.On Friday, […]
Stock Market About Ready to Plunge!By: Brad Gudgeon | Sat, Mar 28, 2015SharePrintEmailLast time, I talked about there being one more rally left and then the market would drop big. I see no change in that outlook (after looking over the Gann Cycles from last Monday, I have determined that the next top would be April 2). I also talked […]
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It was a tumultuous week. Investors should get used to it because volatility is going to be with us for some time to come. You can blame a lot of things, but the evidence suggests that the dollar is the main culprit behind the market’s gyrations.The rate of ascent, rather than the direction of the dollar, is largely to blame […]
View photo.By and large, the short interest moves in the leading biotechs and emerging pharmaceuticals were mild between the February 27 and March 13 settlement dates. However, Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ: CELG), Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) and Medivation Inc (NASDAQ: MDVN) saw double-digit percentage upswings in their short interest.Here we take a quick look at how these three stocks have fared […]
I remember sitting in my car in college listening to Howard Stern on the radio before class sometime in 2000. Howard and his crew were talking about the stock market which was roaring. The Tech Bubble was in full effect. The sky was the limit. If you weren’t in the market you were losing out. It was a similar vibe […]
Stock Trading Alert: Stocks Sold Off And Retraced Last Week’s Advance, Will They Continue Down?By: Paul Rejczak | Thu, Mar 26, 2015SharePrintEmailStock Trading Alert originally published on March 26, 2015, 7:30 AM:Briefly: In our opinion, no speculative positions are justified.Our intraday outlook is now neutral, and our short-term outlook is neutral:Intraday outlook (next 24 hours): neutralShort-term outlook (next 1-2 weeks): […]
Stock Trading Alert: Stocks Sold Off And Retraced Last Week’s Advance, Will They Continue Down?By: Paul Rejczak | Thu, Mar 26, 2015SharePrintEmailStock Trading Alert originally published on March 26, 2015, 7:30 AM:Briefly: In our opinion, no speculative positions are justified.Our intraday outlook is now neutral, and our short-term outlook is neutral:Intraday outlook (next 24 hours): neutralShort-term outlook (next 1-2 weeks): […]
After an incredible run, investors are finally seeing some pain in the biotech and broader health care sector. Major biotechnology indexes were off over 4% in Wednesday trading, while the short term trend has not been favorable either.Some investors may now think that the bubble has burst for the high growth biotech sector, but there are actually still a few […]
Swing trading falls between short-term intraday trading and long-term fundamental-based investing. Swing traders hold a specific position for a few days or weeks expecting price momentum, cyclic, or trend reversal patterns to materialize. The focus is not on the fundamental or intrinsic value of a stock, but rather on price trends and patterns over a shorter term.Swing trading requires timely […]
