Best & Worst Performing Blue Chip Stocks This Earnings Season

Best & Worst Performing Blue Chip Stocks This Earnings Season Also, An Overall Earnings Day Performance Snapshot Below we highlight the best and worst performing S&P 500 stocks on their report days this season. As shown, Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) ranks first with a one-day gain of 16.1% on its report day.  Tech-giant Google (GOOG) ranks second best with a...

Contrarian Gold Rally Into Year’s End, Says Fund Manager

Contrarian Gold Rally Into Year's End, Says Fund Manager Fund manager:  If you believe in math, buy gold!  Why gold is going to $1,550 Brent Johnson of Santiago Capital says "you either believe in math or you believe in magic," and math points to gold going much higher.  Johnson believes that economic problems in the United States will lead to a...

Acampora Issues Warning About 2014 Market

Acampora Issue Warning About 2014 Market Three reasons Ralph Acampora is worried about 2014 Ralph Acampora is a long-term bull, but he believes that 2014 could be a rough year for the market.  He is not looking forward to next year.  While Altaira's director of technical analysis is bullish into the end of 2013, he fears that a year-end rally could...

Entering 1 of 3 Bullish Calendar Trend Seasonality Periods

Entering 1 of 3 Bullish Calendar Trend Seasonality Periods A Simple Seasonal Calendar for Stock Market Investors There are two things you should know about seasonal trends and how they relate to trading: First the Bad News: there is no guarantee that even the most reliable repetitive seasonal trend will work the next time around – or the time after...

5 DJIA Dogs Ready To Growl In 2014

5 DJIA Dogs Ready To Growl In 2014   While most investors spend the last quarter of the year looking for the top trades to head into 2014, I'd recommend looking at the bottom of the list for buying opportunities. Yes, I realize how crazy that sounds. The thing about focusing on the bottom of the list is that they're...

Let The Good Times Roll Into 2014, Just Like The Roaring 20s … ?

Let The Good Times Roll Into 2014, Just Like The Roaring 20s … ? 2014 'Year of the Boom!' Bet on the bulls now 5 engines driving a new Roaring Twenties stock market [The author here is largely being sarcastic, comparing the current situation to the 1920s (pre Market Crash) using hyperbole from some bulls about 2014, a shaky economy/Fed money flow and...

5 Mistakes That ETF Option Traders Make

5 Mistakes That ETF Option Traders Make ETF options give you so many ways to profit from the significant movements in the major sectors, and yet the leverage of options can be a double-edged sword for those who know "just enough to be dangerous."  Let's examine the 5 biggest mistakes I see traders making when it comes to trading options...

Dollar Gets Whacked Amid Debt Deal, China & Tapering

Dollar Gets Whacked Amid Debt Deal, China & Tapering China, Shutdown, Evans Contribute To Dollar's Pain Global trade has an enormous impact on both the financial markets and worldwide economy.  Therefore, when the currency that serves as the guidepost for valuing assets drops 1%, it impacts investor decisions across all asset classes.  Thursday's tone was set in the currency pits...

Hindenberg Omens & 1987-Style Crash Haven’t Materialized

Hindenberg Omens & 1987-Style Crash Haven't Materialized Whatever Happened to Those Hindenburg Omens? Back in August, well-known market analyst Marc Faber was calling for an 1987-style crash and said the markets would drop 20%.  Also during that time, the financial media was all worked up by "Hindenburg Omens" popping up repeatedly during the month.  A short description of the frightening...
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