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Weighing The Week Ahead: How Stocks Can Ignore Political Turmoil

Weighing The Week Ahead: How Stocks Can Ignore Political Turmoil

The economic calendar is normal with emphasis on inflation data and housing news. These routine reports continue in the background as the Washington headlines continue. We would all like to focus on markets, but the daily news flow emphasizes the turmoil. Many people are asking: How can markets ignore the political turmoil? Last Week Recap […]
Energy Infrastructure Needs A Catalyst

Energy Infrastructure Needs A Catalyst

Last week we spent a couple of days with Catalyst Funds at their annual sales conference. Catalyst CEO Jerry Szilagyi has been a great partner for our MLP mutual fund, and we were asked to host eight roundtable discussions with the wholesalers who market it. We have developed many great relationships with them over the […]
3 ‘Strong Buy’ Biotechs That Can Double In 2018

3 ‘Strong Buy’ Biotechs That Can Double In 2018

Here are three stocks that analysts say are primed for huge out-sized growth in the next 12 months. Biotech stocks often present intriguing investment opportunities- although the rewards can be quickly eradicated if key regulatory approvals are delayed or refused. To minimize the risk, we specifically searched for stocks with a high degree of confidence from […]
Warnings Of A New Credit Crisis And The Potential For System Wide Bail-In Push

Warnings Of A New Credit Crisis And The Potential For System Wide Bail-In Push

Alternative analysts are often shunned in their views that the ‘world is ending’ when it comes to the financial system, and this despite the fact that those who correctly forecast the bursting of the housing bubble and subsequent credit crisis were dead on in their assertions. But while many of these same prognosticators have so […]
AUD/USD Forecast Mar. 12-16

AUD/USD Forecast Mar. 12-16

The Australian dollar managed to recover mostly thanks to hopes that the Trump tariffs are not so bad and despite not-so-great Australian data. Can it continue higher? Speeches by RBA members and an important Chinese figure stand out. Here are the highlights of the week and an updated technical analysis for AUD/USD. The Australian economy grew by […]
Above The 40 – Stock Market Returns To Its Originally Scheduled Program

Above The 40 – Stock Market Returns To Its Originally Scheduled Program

AT40 = 48.5% of stocks are trading above their respective 40-day moving averages (DMAs)AT200 = 52.9% of stocks are trading above their respective 200DMAsVIX = 14.6 (11.5% drop)Short-term Trading Call: bullish Commentary The (expected) plunge in the volatility index, the VIX, says it all…the stock market is ready to return to its originally scheduled programming. The volatility index, […]
Anatomy Of Success: Nintendo (NTDOY)

Anatomy Of Success: Nintendo (NTDOY)

When a company earns the coveted Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), it is displaying the right characteristics to beat the market over the next one to three months. But of course, reaching this ideal rank is not an easy feat. Of the thousands of companies tracked by Zacks, only about 5% earn this designation. Below, […]
Trading Support And Resistance – March 11

Trading Support And Resistance – March 11

This week we’ll begin with our monthly and weekly forecasts of the currency pairs worth watching. The first part of our forecast is based upon our research of the past 16 years of Forex prices, which show that the following methodologies have all produced profitable results: Trading the two currencies that are trending the most strongly over the […]
Why Investors Should Closely Watch The Oil Market

Why Investors Should Closely Watch The Oil Market

Oil’s price move in the upcoming weeks will be decisive for its overall performance in 2018. After our initial oil price target in 2018 was met recently, we published an oil price update where we mentioned that oil is not bearish, at least not from the long term perspective. Our outlook was based on the analysis of the […]
Investors Try On AI-based Drug Discovery With BioXcel

Investors Try On AI-based Drug Discovery With BioXcel

Last week BioXcel Therapeutics (Nasdaq: BTAI) went public at $11. It looks like a typical biotechnology company with two drugs (BXCL501 and BXCL701) in Phase 1/2 trials for mental disorders and cancer respectively. Both drugs look fairly promising based on the data presented and we’ll get to that. But BioXcel is taking a different approach to […]