10 Top Technical Analysis Books My 10 Favorite Technical Analysis Books by J.C. Parets [BigTrends.com note: Not on the list below is Market Wizards and the entire Wizards series of books, which are great interviews with successful traders — they are mentioned in the article. Also Reminiscences Of A Stock Operator is a timeless classic for active traders.] It feels like almost...
Global Sector Performance – August, QTD & YTD by Bespoke Invest The month of August is now behind us and September trading begins on Tuesday following Monday’s Labor Day holiday. Below is a look at the performance of various asset classes in August, quarter-to-date and year-to-date using a broad ETF matrix. The left hand side of the matrix features mostly...
5 Big Name Stocks With Reasonable Valuations Five stocks that look undervalued by Michael Fowlkes One of the hardest things to do in both investing and our everyday lives is finding a good value. The reason it is so difficult to find a good value is that in most cases "value" can be very subjective. The value you put on the...
The Bullish Case For The India Stock Market Opinion: Why Indian stocks are a buy right now Expect strong gains from this rapidly growing emerging market by Henry To The Indian stock market is on a tear, for some good reasons. Over the last 12 months, the MSCI India index (INDA), which tracks the performance of all large and mid-cap...
Screening For Stocks Using Average True Range & Other Factors Courtesy of TradersLaboratory [BigTrends.com note: This is a nice article that discusses a systemized way to find trading ideas and stocks/ETFs that will move enough to make a trade worthwhile. It focuses on a formula for Price/Average True Range as a way of measuring volatility on an individual stock/ETF trading and screening for ideas —...
Big Name Stocks That Hedge Funds Are Accumulating (& Shedding) Funds play health care mergers; sell media companies and large financial institutions by FactSet.com The 50 largest hedge funds significantly increased their equity exposure (+9.8%) in Q2 2014 in the wake of M&A activity in the Health Care (XLV) sector. Four of the top ten equity additions were health care...
10 Stocks That Have Beaten Google by Matt Krantz Happy 10th birthday to you Google (GOOG) (GOOGL) IPO. But while you've done great, Google can't hold a candle to these 10 stocks. Google's 1,293% gain since its initial public offering on Aug. 19, 2004, is certainly impressive. And the company has rocked the advertising and technology industries with its ability...
Retail Stocks That Are Heavily Shorted Ahead Of Upcoming Earnings What traders are shorting ahead of earnings by Everett Rosenfeld A slew of familiar Retail stocks (XRT) are reporting earnings into heavy short bets this week. GameStop (GME), Aeropostale (ARO), and Staples (SPLS) are just a few of the consumer retail names announcing this week with over 10 percent of their...
Walking A Fine Line Here – Weekly Market Outlook In retrospect, last week’s bounce wasn’t have been a total surprise. Most of the market’s major indices were approaching major support levels, as we’ve previously discussed. Will the momentum continue or will the bearish volatility return? We’ll look into that, right after a quick look at all of last week’s and...
Leading Indicators vs Lagging Indicators in Technical Analysis Charting by Richard Cox When we look at the available charting tools that are available in the commonly used trading stations, a variety of different options can be seen. Specifically, these tools will often be divided into what we will call "lagging" indicators and leading "indicators," and the fact that there are different...
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