Since the end of April, it hasn’t been all that unusual to see stocks down -10% or more. Since both the Trump administration and Chinese officials have announced agreement on phase one of a trade agreement last week, however, the market is pushing to a new set of all-time highs – something that should give […]
Read MoreAny experienced investor, no matter what their investment philosophy is, will undoubtedly tell you that one of the most useful ways they keep track of new opportunities as they come up is by maintaining a watchlist of stocks that they can check on a regular basis. A good, diversified list of stocks in a variety […]
Read MoreThere are a lot of different ways to scour the market for good investing opportunities – as many different ways, in fact as there are investors. One of the simple methods that I like to use to start filtering the more than 7,000 different stocks listed on the major U.S. exchanges to a more manageable […]
Read MoreAs the market began to move into the final quarter of the year, things seemed to be reaching a tipping point; many analysts were even forecasting that the market would repeat its bearish performance of the end of 2018, when all of the major indices tested bear market levels. As has been the case throughout […]
Read MoreAny experienced investor, no matter what their investment philosophy is, will undoubtedly tell you that one of the most useful ways they keep track of new opportunities as they come up is by maintaining a watchlist of stocks that they can check on a regular basis. A good, diversified list of stocks in a variety […]
Read MoreWhile a lot of sectors in the market are showing a heightened level of volatility and sensitivity lately, many of them remain up quite nicely year to date, or over the past year. Trade concerns have become more and more heightened lately, spreading volatility throughout the market and pushing the curve between short-term and longer-term […]
Read MoreDidn’t it seem like at the end of last week, the market started holding its breath, waiting for the next shoe to drop about trade? President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping finally met in Tokyo this weekend, with what a lot of experts seem to believe was the best realistic result of the meeting […]
Read MoreSince the end of April, it hasn’t been all that unusual to see stocks -10% or more. Considering, however that even with its own pullback from a new all-time high in the last three weeks, the stock market remains more than 14% higher year to date, the normal expectation right now when you look at […]
Read MoreLike most sectors in the market this year, the Basic Materials sector has seen a sizable move to the upside. As measured by the S&P 500 Materials Sector SPDR ETF (XLB), the sector is up a little over 11% since the beginning of the year. This is a sector that operates with a fairly high […]
Read MoreOnce the stock market bottomed at the end of October, the major market indices all rallied. Some of that rally lost steam yesterday and pushed all three major indices into negative territory for the last 30 days; but one of the sectors that really seems to have benefited is the Materials sector. At the beginning […]
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