Buy These Fallen Angels For A Q1 Rebound
There are two reasons why we often see great buys in November and December, at least for the short to intermediate term. First, individual investors owning what they believe (or believed!) to be quality companies have looked on hungrily as they see other companies’ share prices move forward rapidly. They look at their own holdings […]
E SPX Makes Another All-Time High; VIX Slammed
VIX was slammed in the final hour of the day on Friday to a new all-time low. This leaves the VIX with a Megaphone (reversal) formation. The larger formation that gives an upside target is the Ending Diagonal which suggests a complete retracement of the decline from January 2016. (Bloomberg) The CBOE Volatility Index […]
The Simple Way A Stop-Loss Order Protects Your Investment
As an investor, the biggest risk you face is losing money. While the goal is to make money in the stock market, no matter how much research you put into a stock it doesn’t guarantee that you will see a positive return on your investment. If only there was a way to lower the risk […]
Bitcoin Facts
A Useful Infographic When we last wrote more extensively about Bitcoin (see Parabolic Coin – evidently, it has become a lot more “parabolic” since then), we said we would soon return to the subject of Bitcoin and monetary theory in these pages. This long planned article was delayed for a number of reasons, one of […]
$1 Billion AR/VR Investment In Q4, $2.5B This Year So Far
Startup leaders across the 27 AR/VR sectors in Digi-Capital’s Augmented/Virtual Reality Report and Deals Database raised $1 billion in the fourth quarter before the end of November. This is only the second time the billion dollar figure has been reached in a single quarter. Three quarters of a billion dollars went into big deals like […]
World Stocks Positive As US Fed Looks To Raise Rates
Global financial markets ended the week on a positive note. Except the Chinese financial markets, all global indices registered gains over the week. In the US, the Dow industrials ended the week up 0.9%. The US indices edged up over a favorable holiday season with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite indices hitting record highs […]
These Are The 7 Companies Amazon May Purchase Next
On Monday, a Morgan Stanley report that Amazon was contemplating “disrupting” the Healthcare Distribution sector slammed stocks in the industry, sending the sector sharply lower. Fast forward two days, when Amazon’s disruption appears to have started earlier than even MS anticipated, after a CNBC report that AWS CEO Andy Jassy is planning to announce that […]
China Propels Global Crude Steel Production In October
Global crude steel production expanded at solid pace in October on the back of a surge in output in China – the world’s biggest steel maker – according to a World Steel Association (“WSA”) report. Higher output across India, the United States and Europe also supported the production growth. According to the international trade body […]
The Black Hole Revisited
Remember “the black hole?” Late last month, Wells Fargo put out a truly amusing piece called “Passive Is The New QE.” The premise was that passive flows are acting like QE for U.S. stocks. Here’s what Wells wrote: As QE seemed to exaggerate trends in the fixed income markets, so it appears that Passive equity […]
EC The Surprising Implications Of Periods Of Extremely Low Volatility – A Year Of Records
Trying to chase volatility higher has been like chasing fancy footwork. The S&P 500 last completed a drawdown of 5% or more on November 4, 2016. That ended a period of pre-election weakness that began in early to mid-August, 2016. The last drawdown of 5% or more before that occurred around Brexit when the vote […]
