Between A Rock & A Hard Place – Weekly Market Outlook The third weekly loss in a row has brought the broad market down 2.4% from its recent peak. In the grand scheme of things, it’s not much… not even enough to call a full corrective move. Even so, there are glimmers of hope that the selloff has run its...
Japanese Candlestick Charting – History & Patterns Inside Japanese Candlestick Trading Patterns, History & Basics How You Can Profit From The History Of Candlestick Patterns by optionalpha.com and stockcharts.com Japanese candlestick patterns have been around for centuries. Originally they were used by merchants to help them predict and profit from rice trading. You could say that they have really passed the test of time...
Some Oil Companies Are Profiting From The Price Slide Through Trading How Big Oil Is Profiting From the Slump by Javier Blas Europe's largest oil companies are gaining support from an unlikely source as they confront the industry's worst slump since the financial crisis: lower oil prices. Although better known for their oil fields, refineries, and petrol stations, BP Plc...
By This Measure, The Current Bull Market Is Reaching Historic Levels Where Does The Current Bull Market Rank Historically? by Bespoke Invest We just passed Monday’s six-year calendar anniversary of the S&P 500’s 3/9/09 bear market low. The generally accepted measure for a bull market is a rally of at least 20% that was preceded by a decline of...
Gold Sentiment Is Low Amid Poor Price Action, But Not At Extreme Lows Gold-market investors I follow are now 100% in cash by Mark Hulbert The gold-market timers I track aren’t exhibiting the extreme pessimism and despair that is the hallmark of a bottom in prices, despite a dismal six-week period for the yellow metal. Over the past month and...
China by the Numbers While the economy is slowing, there's still plenty of demand by Malcolm Scott China's Premier Li Keqiang Thursday announced a slower economic growth target of about 7% for 2015. Is that bad news for the world? Some of the other numbers detailed in his 39-page work report suggest there's still plenty of demand stemming from the...
13 Experienced Investors Share Their Biggest Mistake & How To Fix It 13 Investors Share Their Biggest Investing Mistake And What They Did To Fix It by Lukas Neely We tapped the minds of some of our favorite investors and experts to tell us what their biggest investing mistake was and how they fixed it. Here are the panel of experts…...
The Most Heavily Shorted Large Cap Stocks Here’s a List of the Most Heavily Shorted Stocks in the Russell 1,000 by Bespoke Invest Below is a basic list of the most heavily shorted stocks (short interest as a percentage of equity float) in the Russell 1,000 (large cap stocks). Each stock on this list has at least 20% of its...
Watching Closely Here – Weekly Market Outlook Believe it or not, the S&P 500 (SPX) (SPY) lost ground last week. It was a “just barely” situation, and the Russell 2000 (RUT) (IWM) as well as the NASDAQ Composite (COMP) (QQQ) both ended the week higher even with Friday’s pullbacks. The across-the-board weakness to close out the week, however, is something...
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