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The Perfect Time Frame For The Retail Trader
I’ve been running a variety of my algos, both for the BK chat room and for my own account, and the longer I trade the variations the more it becomes evident that the one hour chart is the perfect frame for the retail trader. There are two principal reasons for this. The one hour is […]
Retail & Infrastructure Offer High Yield Dividend Stocks
In today’s video, Ryan McQueeney highlights one of the newest additions to the Zacks Income Investor portfolio: Chico’s FAS CHS. Chico’s FAS is a retailer and women’s clothing company. It operates Chico’s, White House Black Market, and Soma branded stores and e-commerce platforms. The stock has had a rough few years, but its earnings outlook has […]
GBP: Brexit Chaos Leaves Sterling Still Vulnerable To Whiplash Moves
FUNDAMENTAL FORECAST FOR GBP: NEUTRAL STERLING (GBP) TALKING POINTS: UK PM may still face a leadership challenge. Sterling roiled by a constant flow of Brexit bad news. With the current fractured political backdrop within the UK, taking a position in Sterling has become a very risky trade as technical and fundamental analysis can be rendered […]
RecessionAlert Weekly Leading Index Update – Saturday, Nov. 17
The latest index reading came in at 8.8, up slightly from the previous week. RecessionAlert launched an alternative to ECRI’s Weekly Leading Index Growth indicator (WLIg). The Weekly Leading Economic Index (WLEI) uses fifty different time series from these categories: Corporate Bond Composite, Treasury Bond Composite, Stock Market Composite, Labor Market Composite, Credit Market Composite. RecessionAlert emphasizes that […]
A Look At Mortgage REIT ETFs Post Q3 Earnings
Flattening of the yield curve has acted as a headwind for mortgage REITs (mREITs) lately. This is because mortgage REITs borrow money at short-term interest rates and when they buy mortgages, they lend it at rates near the higher long-term rates. But overall, rising rate environment is a negative for the space known for hefty yields. (read: Fed […]
Kansas City Fed Survey: Activity Edged Higher In November
The Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Survey business conditions indicator measures activity in the following states: Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wyoming, western Missouri, and northern New Mexico. Quarterly data for this indicator dates back to 1995, but monthly data is only available from 2001. Here is an excerpt from the latest report: KANSAS CITY, Mo. –The […]
Passive Investing Madness: 50,000 Stocks Vs 3.7 Million Indexes
There are 3.7 million ways you buy stocks and bonds without owning a single issue outright. Bloomberg reports there were 438,000 New Indexes Created Over the Last Year. Benchmarking giants like S&P Global Inc., MSCI Inc. and the London Stock Exchange Group Plc’s FTSE Russell created 438,000 new indexes over the 12 months through June […]
Week In Review: CStone Pharma, A Suzhou Oncology Company, Files For Hong Kong IPO
Suzhou’s CStone Pharma has filed for a Hong Kong IPO (see story). Founded in 2015, CStone has quickly built a portfolio of 14 oncology candidates. The company says its three core products are IO drugs — PD-1, PD-L1 and CTLA-4 antibodies — which will be paired with other of its assets to offer combination therapies. As […]
