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Projecting The Effective Demand Limit

Projecting The Effective Demand Limit

The economy expands in terms of capacity utilization until the effective demand limit is reached. The following graph shows the effective demand limit. (link to data… https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=eUj3)  The red link of effective demand stays above real GDP. One thing to notice about the red line of effective demand is that after is bounces off of real […]
Stocks To Watch: WTW, DIS, AAOI

Stocks To Watch: WTW, DIS, AAOI

Today’s stock picks Short Weight Watchers (WTW) Short Walt Disney (DIS) Long Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI)
Exactly What The Bulls Wanted

Exactly What The Bulls Wanted

All but one of the 14 major market sectors was up today. More importantly… The top 3 sectors in our summary table (sorted by 6 month change) were 3 of the 4 biggest movers. This is good news for the bull market – SMH, XLK, and XLV reasserted their leading trends. Additionally, the Biotech’s (IBB), […]
M&A Theme Continues To Boost Biotech Stocks

M&A Theme Continues To Boost Biotech Stocks

M&A Boosts Biotech Stocks For Third Day Gilead Sciences (GILD) and Bluebird Bio (BLUE) Both Soar Today  Biotech Sector Back to 2017 Highs The prospect of more M&A boosts biotech stocks for a third day this week. The large cap based IBB was up 1.87% today and  6.48% over five days to $323.76 approaching its YTD high of $327.34. […]
Agriculture Markets Report – Wednesday, August 30

Agriculture Markets Report – Wednesday, August 30

A review of the day’s trading in the agriculture markets. Video length: 00:13:06
TrueCar Can’t Serve Two Masters

TrueCar Can’t Serve Two Masters

The last time we saw a business model as fundamentally flawed as TrueCar (TRUE: $17/share) was four years ago, when we put Angie’s List (ANGI) in the Danger Zone. In fact, TrueCar today looks very similar to Angie’s List in the summer of 2013, just before the stock plummeted over 50%. Just like ANGI in 2013, TRUE […]
Moving Averages: Month – End Preview – Wednesday, August 30

Moving Averages: Month – End Preview – Wednesday, August 30

Here is an advance preview of the monthly moving averages we track after the close of the last business day of the month. At this point, before the close on the last day of the month, all three S&P 500 strategies are signaling “invested” — unchanged from last month’s signal. Four of the five Ivy […]
Capital Southwest Announces Quarterly Dividend Of $0.24 Per Share

Capital Southwest Announces Quarterly Dividend Of $0.24 Per Share

DALLAS, Aug. 30, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Capital Southwest Corporation (“Capital Southwest” or the “Company”); (Nasdaq:CSWC) today announced its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.24 per share for the quarter ended September 30, 2017.  The Company’s dividend will be payable as follows: September 30, 2017 Quarterly Dividend   Amount Per Share:  […]
Trican Well Service: Well Positioned For A Strong Finish To 2017

Trican Well Service: Well Positioned For A Strong Finish To 2017

TM editors’ note: This article discusses a penny stock and/or microcap. Such stocks are easily manipulated; do your own careful due diligence. Written by SmallCappower.com Trican Well Service Ltd. (TOLWF)  Continued demand for fracturing and other services coupled with scale post its merger with Canyon Services have resulted in a strong 2Q17 performance, with revenue up […]
CAI International – Chart Of The Day

CAI International – Chart Of The Day

The Chart of the Day belongs to CAI International (CAI).  I found the intermodal container stock by using Barchart to sort today’s All Time High list first by the highest Weighted Alpha, then again by technical buy signals of 80% or more. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 8/14 the stock gained 9.06%. CAI International,  INC. is one of […]