Stocks Taking A Breath After A Big Run: In the short term, the market looks a little tired up here and has earned the right to pause for a while to catch its breath. The bifurcated environment we have discussed at length in recent weeks remains in full effect- as large cap stocks (on average), continue…
How To Navigate Earnings Season It’s no secret that earnings season tends to be a volatile time for individual stocks. One of the best ways to profit from earnings season is to wait and see where the dust settles and then buy the stronger stocks and sell the weaker ones. Bullish Break-Away Gaps A bullish…
Join Our Free Newsletter Here How You Can Profit From Short Sellers: Last week, I wrote a piece that discussed the concept of short covering- here. As a quick review, short sellers are people who profit when stocks fall and short covering occurs when the short sellers exit their positions. In order to exit their…
Learn The “Art” Of Trading: FREE Webinar “Trader’s Intuition” Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 Time 4pm EST We will be discussing, Markets, Sectors, & Leading Stocks More: http://stks.co/g0q9E I’m frequently asked how do I know which stocks the large institutions are buying? While I’m not privy to their buy/sell orders each day- I can see their…
Stocks Shrug Off Geo-Political Woes: 07.18.14 Stocks Are Strong The market has had every reason in the world to fall and refuses to budge. Instead, the S& P 500 turned positive for the week and the Dow Jones Industrial Average & Nasdaq 100 both closed at new highs for the year! That, my friends, is a…
There are two sides to every trade: The Bulls & The Bears Basic Wall Street Lingo The bulls want the market (or stock) to go higher and the bears want the market (or stock) to go lower. Typically the bulls go “long” and the bears go “short” in order to express their view. The most…
(Reuters) – Commodity prices from cotton to corn to crude tumbled on Friday, driving a key index to its longest-ever losing streak as supply-side fundamentals grew brighter. The rout came a day after news of strain at Portugal’s largest listed bank upset other financial markets with fears of financial contagion in Europe. But commodity investors…
Stocks Fall As Earnings Season Begins: 07.11.14 The Long-Awaited Pullback Has Arrived. Will It Stay? Stocks pulled back last week as Q2 earnings season officially began. So far this appears to be another normal and healthy shallow pullback in both size (% decline) and scope (short duration). Remember, shallow pullbacks are healthy as they give the…
10-Jul-2014 17:44 Bullion hits March high on worries of Europe contagion India leaves gold import duty at record high (Updates with trader’s comment on more upside for gold) By Barani Krishnan and Clara Denina NEW YORK/LONDON, July 10 (Reuters) – Gold surged to 3-1/2 month highs on safe-haven buying on Thursday after questions raised about…
PRECIOUS-Gold up as Fed minutes keep to expectations; palladium jumps – RTRS 09-Jul-2014 15:47 Fed hints Oct end to bond-buying; no change to inflation Holdings of largest gold ETF hit 3-month high Palladium rises to new 13-1/2 year peak (Adds session close in U.S. gold, fresh comments after Fed minutes) By Barani Krishnan and Jan…