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Cheap Gold Stocks Basing

Cheap Gold Stocks Basing

The small contrarian gold-mining sector remains deeply out of favor, universally ignored. Thus the gold stocks are largely drifting listlessly, totally devoid of excitement. But that’s the best time to buy low, when few others care. The gold stocks continue to form strong technical bases, paving the way for massive mean-reversion uplegs. And they remain […]
Stock Markets For Friday, March 9

Stock Markets For Friday, March 9

Today, I perform a technical analysis of the charts using candlestick charting. Indicators used are the relative strength indicator as well as the stochastic. A review of stocks, ETFs and stock market indexes. Video Length: 00:18:18
My Favorite Option Strategy For ETF Directional Trend Moves

My Favorite Option Strategy For ETF Directional Trend Moves

As a CBOE Market Maker, I bought and sold millions of dollars of options during the Internet Bubble era. I made quite a bit of profits from the time premium decay in options I sold. So I learned NOT to buy a lot of time premium when I buy Calls and Puts on ETFs. My […]
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                        How We Trade After U.S. NFP?

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This week, EUR/USD was subjected to increased volatility, with initial gains (a high of 1.2446) giving way to losses toward the end of the week. The weakness appears to have coincided with the ECB meeting and press conference, something which we find somewhat surprising. Aside from the dropping of the easing bias (and the generally […]
Riding The Current Wave In Bitcoin

Riding The Current Wave In Bitcoin

In a move surprising to some, the SEC has announced that a number of cryptocurrency exchanges must register with the agency. Without naming names, the race has begun to determine if a specific platform meets the definitions put forward by the SEC. As our readers are aware, this is actually not surprising at all. In […]
36 Firms Going Ex-Dividend Next Week, Including Kohl’s, Public Storage And Merck

36 Firms Going Ex-Dividend Next Week, Including Kohl’s, Public Storage And Merck

There are several well known large cap stocks going ex-dividend next week including the following four Top 100 Dividend Stocks: Kohl’s, Public Storage, BCE Inc. and Merck. Ex-dividend dates are important to dividend investors because one must own a stock on its ex-dividend date in order to be eligible to receive its next dividend. Any stock ranked by our […]
Most Active Equity Options And Strikes For Midday – Friday, March 9

Most Active Equity Options And Strikes For Midday – Friday, March 9

Top tickers for midday: AMD, BAC, AAPL, MSFT, BP, KR.
Japan’s Economy Remains Resilient: 5 Great Picks

Japan’s Economy Remains Resilient: 5 Great Picks

Japan’s economy grew faster in the last quarter of 2017 than initially estimated, according to a revised estimate. The world’s third-largest economy has now expanded for eight straight quarters. This marks the longest run of growth in 28 years, since a 12-quarter expansion ended in 1989, a period which coincided with Japan’s economic bubble. The […]
Value Investing Offers The Biggest Bang For Your Retirement Buck

Value Investing Offers The Biggest Bang For Your Retirement Buck

Have you ever heard of the term “torpedo stocks”? If you’re currently saving for retirement by buying stocks, this is a term that you should definitely be familiar with. In my last article on Modest Money, I discussed the pitfalls of index fund investing. In my view, index funds are likely to lead to pain, rather than […]
Buying Stocks Doesn’t Make You An Investor

Buying Stocks Doesn’t Make You An Investor

GUALFIN, ARGENTINA – We continue our exploration… …of why the stock market is a fraud… …why investors’ savings are not really funding U.S. business… … why instead, they are aiding and abetting a multitrillion-dollar rip-off… …and how the ripper-offers are going to get what’s coming to them, good and hard. Trade Controversy But first, we […]