The VIX Is Low, But How Low Historically? A Historical Perspective on Current VIX Levels by Russell Rhoads The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) (VXX) has been fairly low for most of 2014. I can admit that. When I hear comments like, “VIX is broken”, due to the recently low levels for VIX, then I get to work. CBOE has data...
Best & Worst Performing S&P 500 Stocks Year To Date Top Performing Stocks Year-to-Date by BespokeInvest The average S&P 500 (SPX) (SPY) stock is up 5.89% year-to-date, and 65.4% of the index is in the black for the year. Below is a list of the 40 best performing S&P 500 stocks so far this year. As shown, there aren’t...
Social Media Stocks Are Bucking Yellen & Market Weakness Social-media investors to delay correction? by Michael A. Gayed "Short cuts make long delays." – J. R. R. Tolkien A few weeks ago, Fed Chair Janet Yellen made the largely unprecedented move in stating that there are select parts of the stock market, particularly in Biotech (IBB) (XBI) (FBT) and social media...
Europe's Woes – Italy Recession, Germany Slowdown Italy Recession, German Orders Signal Euro-Area Struggle by Stefan Riecher and Chiara Vasarri for Bloomberg.com Italy (EWI) unexpectedly returned to recession and German (EWG) factory orders dropped the most since 2011 as political tensions and slowing global growth threaten the euro area's recovery. Italy's economy shrank 0.2 percent in the second quarter after contracting...
Chinese Stock Market – The Unlikely Safe Haven In twist, China stock market is haven amid storm by Adam Shell When you think of safe-haven investments, Chinese stocks (FXI) don't normally come to mind. But shares listed in Shanghai have been soaring recently at a time when most stock markets around the globe have been sliding. Last week, global...
Managing Emotions In Your Trading by IG.com Introduction: Psychology – how you feel about and respond to your trading – is a major part of the trading process, and yet it is a factor that is often overlooked. All traders watch the same prices, read the same news, and analyze the same charts – so what goes on in the...
Moving Average Divergence & Volatility Bottoming T2108 Update – A “Quiet” Divergence by Dr. Duru (T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. It helps to identify extremes in market sentiment that are likely to reverse. This is a daily technical indicator from TeleChart. I consider a reading above 70% to be overbought, below...
Key Metrics & Valuations From Earnings Season by FactSetInsight Earnings Scorecard: Of the 230 companies that have reported earnings to date for Q2 2014, 76% have reported earnings above the mean estimate and 67% have reported sales above the mean estimate. Earnings Growth: The blended earnings growth rate for Q2 2014 is 6.7%. The Telecom Services (IYZ) sector is reporting...
The Most Heavily Shorted Stocks Have Tended To Drop Recently S&P 1500 Most Heavily Shorted Stocks: Mid-July 2014 by BespokeInvest Short interest figures for the middle of July were released late last week, and below we have provided a list of the 32 stocks in the S&P 1500 that have more than 25% of their float sold short. As is...
10 Rules For Using Chart Indicators Effectively by Barry D Moore Dear investor, use these rules to using Charting Indicators and you will be using a wealth of experience that comes only with years of trading! "There is no liberation without labor…and there is no freedom which is free." Siri Singh There are a lot of stock chart indicators out...
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