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Bulls Gobble Up Stocks As Volume Recedes
The major averages advanced on Wednesday as the greenback slid to a 14-year low against the yen after the latest round of economic data was released. As expected, volume, a critical component of institutional demand, was lower than Tuesday’s levels ahead of the the Thanksgiving day holiday. The stock market will be closed on Thursday and is slated to close early on Friday (1pm EST) in oberservence of the holiday. Advancers led decliners by over a 2-to-1 ratio on the NYSE but trailed by a narrow margin on the Nasdaq exchange. There were 22high-ranked companies from the CANSLIM.net Leaders List making a new 52-week high and appearing on the CANSLIM.net BreakOuts Page, higher from the 12 issues that appeared on the prior session. In terms of new leadership, it was encouraging to see new 52-week highs outnumber new 52-week lows on the NYSE and Nasdaq exchange.
Why Most People Lose Money In The Market- It’s human nature.
Immediate Gratification: Profits are a function of time. By definition any trade that is exited with a profit requires a certain element of time. The problem is that most people have a natural tendency to seek immediate gratification at the expense of long term gratification. That is why most people lose money on Wall Street….
Tax Inversions- Who’s Inverting & Why
Guest post, by Adam Sarhan 11.23.15 Earlier today Pfizer ($PFE) inked a record deal to buy Allergan ($AGN) for $155B. The deal was primarily due to help Pfizer save billions of dollars every year in taxes (a.k.a. tax inversion). Pfizer is the latest in a series of high profile companies that are moving their headquarters…
Why The Fed Didn't Taper – September 2013
Why The Fed Didn’t Taper: 9/22/2013 Two reasons: Fits their Agenda, and a Simple Cost/Benefit Analysis. Bernanke’s worst case scenario for continuing QE is hyper inflation, which is currently a nonevent. Meanwhile, the upside of continuing QE: Help the Economy, Create Jobs, and Raise Asset Prices. Since the worst possible scenario is hyperinflation (and we are no where near…
That Was Fast: The Mini Bear Market In Biotechs Is Over $IBB
The most common definition of a bear market is a decline of 20% or more below a recent high. Earlier this year, the IBB (Biotech ETF) fell 24% which dragged down a slew of momentum and growth stocks. At the time, I wrote about (here) how steep corrections were normal and actually healthy for these…
Q2 Review & The Fed Put
The Following Was A FindLeadingStocks Special Report- Sign Up Here Look At The Forest, Not Just The Trees: It is important to step back every so often and look at the forest (intermediate/long term action), not just the trees (short term action) and that is the primary purpose of this update. Also find a few annotated monthly…
