Why Dollar Bulls Are Anticipating Another Rally After 9 straight months, is the dollar rally finally over? by Sarah Eisen It is arguably the most important question for markets around the world right now: is the historic dollar rally over and done? The short answer: not likely. After nine straight months of relentless strength against other currencies, the greenback's (UUP rally unraveled...
Contrarian Watch – ‘Millennials Avoiding Stocks’ Millennials & The New Death of Equities by Ben Carlson “Experience is the teacher of all things.” – Julius Caesar The infamous 1979 Businessweek cover story entitled “The Death of Equities” is widely viewed as one of the best contrarian indicators of all-time. Stocks went on to have one of the greatest bull...
7 Stocks Held By 7 Of The World's Greatest Traders & Investors 7 High-Conviction Stock Picks Held By The Masters Of The Universe by Charles Sizemore People love heroes. We instinctively look up to professional athletes, rock stars, and – against our better judgment – even politicians at times. The world of investments is no different. We mortals fawn over...
Tech Stocks In The Internet Bubble Compared To Now How Not to Diversify and Other Lessons of the Technology Bubble by Callie Bost, Joseph Ciolli and Oliver Renick Thinking back on all the mistakes his clients made as the dot-com bubble inflated two decades ago, Dan Morgan remembered some funny ideas about diversification. "They'd say 'I own Microsoft, Dell and...
18 Timeless Trading & Investing Principles by Richard Rhodes I must admit, I am not smart enough to have devised these ridiculously simple trading rules. A great trader gave them to me some 15 years ago. However, I will tell you, they work. If you follow these rules, breaking them as infrequently as possible, you should make money year in and...
Energy Stocks Showing Breadth In Their Comeback Energy Now Leading the Way on Breadth [BigTrends.com note: The scope of the rebound in the Energy sector is impressive, given that many analysts were saying the drop in Oil prices would cause certain/many companies in the broad sector as a whole to be hurt (some severely). Also keep in mind that the...
700 Million More People Than 2011 Have Access To Financial Instruments Technology sparks jump in global bank accounts by Donna Leinwand Leger The number of people worldwide who have some type of bank account jumped 22% between 2011 and 2014, indicating that new technologies, such as mobile phone "wallets" and digitized payments, have made it easier for people in developing...
Inter-Market Correlations Can Disappear/Change Quickly What happened to the dollar/gold correlation? by Avi Gilburt [BigTrends.com note: We’ve previously discussed that there are no ‘set in stone’ correlations between various asset classes and commodities — so in general when you see people discussing a correlation between the dollar, gold, oil, stock, bonds, etc, just remember that these tend to be temporary and...
Contrarian Watch – As Earnings Season Begins, Analyst Expectations Are Low [BigTrends.com note: These measures from 2 different sources indicate that analyst earnings expectations have been ratcheted down considerably as we begin this earnings season.] Largest Cuts to S&P 500 Estimates since 2009 due to Energy Sector by John Butters During the first quarter of 2015, analysts lowered earnings estimates for...
5 Stocks With Bullish Technical Patterns Five stocks that are flashing buy signals by Michael Fowlkes [BigTrends.com Editor's Note: These stock choices and analysis are from an outside author and are not buy/sell recommendations for these stocks by BigTrends. We may trade or hold any of these names in either direction. The article does do a nice job of showing 5 classic...
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