Dividend Aristocrats Outperform The Broad Market Over Past 5 & 10 Years 5 'dividend aristocrat' stocks set to boost earnings up to 77% These companies help investors weather a shaky stock market by Philip van Doorn Companies that consistently increase dividend payouts tend to outperform the broader market in the long run. To get a handle on which are the...
Why Economists Can Often Be Ignored By Traders & Investors Yes, 100% of economists were dead wrong about yields Back in April every economist in a survey thought yields would rise. Guess what they did next by Ben Eisen [BigTrends.com note: We’ve often said that we prefer to listen to traders and investors (and foremost the charts and indicators) rather than economists,...
3 Indicators That Can Ease The Broad Market Worries Is It Over? 3 ETF Signals You May Use For Confirmation by Gary Gordon Is the global economic landscape healing? Far from it. Does that typically signal good things for the U.S. stock market? No… but the U.S. Federal Reserve is extremely likely to keep overnight lending rates near zero for...
S&P 500 Sector Weightings Analysis by BespokeInvest Below is an updated look at sector weightings for the S&P 500 (SPY) (SPX). As shown, Technology (XLK) remains the largest sector of the market at 19.32% — pretty much a fifth of the market. The Financial sector (XLF) is the second largest with a weighting of 16.41%, followed by Health Care (XLV) at 13.89%....
5 Dangerous Stocks To Own These stocks may go over the cliff by Julian Close Confession: I love these little stock market dips. I love it when the chorus of the eternally wrong sings of our inevitable doom. I love it that I have a chance to be in a minority opinion that inevitably turns out to be correct. Mostly, I...
Volatile Price Action This Week Is Unusual & Not Necessarily Bullish Big Down Day Followed By Even Bigger Up Day by Bespoke Invest The S&P 500 (SPX) (SPY) fell 1.51% Tuesday, but it followed up that big loss with a gain of 1.75% on Wednesday. Over the two-day period, the S&P is up about 4 points. Big down days followed...
4 Retail Stocks Favored By A Top Analyst 'No. 1' retail analyst likes these 4 stocks by Bruno J. Navarro As the holiday season approaches, four Retail (XRT) stocks could be worth buying, top-ranked JPMorgan analyst Matthew Boss said Tuesday. Boss was recently named the No. 1 retail analyst for 2014 by Institutional Investor magazine. "I think it's going...
Noted Bear Says Japanese Yen Risks Global Currency Crisis Albert Edwards Says Watch Japanese Yen and Be Very, Very Afraid by Jason Clenfield and Kevin Buckland The Japanese yen goes into freefall. China's fragile economy tips over the edge. A wave of profit-crushing deflation comes washing over the U.S. and Europe. Investors panic. That's the view of perennial pessimist Albert...
The Art Of War & Trading – Applying Sun Tzu's Lessons Applying Sun Tzu's Art of War to Trading by Alvin Chow Sun Tzu's Art of War is a classic piece of work that is widely read and applied to many fields, due to its fundamental nature that is highly adaptable to many areas of our lives. In this post,...
Fibonacci Trading Basics & Key Concepts HOW TO TRADE WITH FIBONACCI NUMBERS by Galen Woods WHAT ARE FIBONACCI NUMBERS? Leonardo Fibonacci introduced the Fibonacci numbers to Western mathematics in a 13th century book. 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 34, 55, 89, 144, … Each number is the sum of the two numbers preceding it. Fibonacci numbers have...
