The tech sector has been a bright spot during the COVID-19 pandemic. There are multiple factors that I think are contributing to that reality. Those include signs of increasing recovery and economic activity in China, where a major portion of manufacturing activity for semiconductor companies takes place, and the ability of a large number of […]
Read MoreIf you read my highlights in this space on a regular basis, you’ve seen me highlight stocks in the semiconductor industry pretty frequently. It’s an interesting segment of the market to me for a number of different reasons. Over the last decade-plus, it’s been one of the highest-performing pockets of the market, arguably one of […]
Read MoreThe last three days have marked the market’s biggest three-day drop since March, when coronavirus-driven shutdowns brought the global economy to a screeching halt and sent the market plunging to bear market levels in less than a month. For many analysts, myself included, the drawdown has been long overdue, as all three major market indices […]
Read MoreOne of the traps that a lot of investors tend to fall into comes from the idiom “a rising tide lifts all boats.” In the broadest sense, the implication is that when the broad market is going up, stocks in general should be going up. The concept also drills down to individual sectors and industries […]
Read MoreNo matter what your investing philosophy is, or how you go about identifying stocks in which to consider putting your money to work, one of the most basic questions you have to ask yourself if whether the potential opportunity outweighs the opposite potential for loss. I like to call that portion of my system reward: […]
Read MorePlus, President Trump issued an executive order banning TikTok and WeChat, July job gains came in just under 1.8 million, and coronavirus relief bill talks have stalled.
Read MoreIf you listen to analysts and talking heads on popular news media, the best places to be in the stock market include the Technology sector, which makes a certain kind of sense since Tech stocks have generally been the highest performers since the market hit a bear market bottom in March of this year. A […]
Read MoreBuy Price: $7.00 or better Sell Price: TradersPro Sell Signal Ideal Power Inc. focuses on the development and commercialization of its B-TRAN technology. It develops Bi-directional bi-polar junction TRANsistor solid state switch technology. The company was formerly known as Ideal Power Converters Inc. and changed its name to Ideal Power Inc. in July 2013. Ideal […]
Read MoreCisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) is one of the most recognizable and established companies in the Technology sector. With a market cap of about $200 billion, they are also one of the largest, if not THE largest player in the Networking & Communications segment. They are, without question, the standard that all other networking businesses are […]
Read MoreAs questions continue to loom about the continued progression of COVID-19 in the United States – and to what extent it may blunt any progress made in the last month or so from the standpoint of economic recovery – it’s pretty easy to give in to the fear that new restrictions may have to be […]
Read MoreClosing out a quarter, and moving into a new one, often prompts talking heads and analysts to look back and find the storylines that carried the market over the last few months. In a pandemic world, the narrative doesn’t really stray too far away from COVID-19 and the impact it continues to have, both from […]
Read MoreSurveying the stock market right now is an interesting mix of contradictions. It seems that with very few exceptions, every industry in almost every sector has had to absorb some kind of impact from the global pandemic that forced governments to shutter their economies and issue shelter-in-place orders through most of the second quarter of […]
Read MoreTrade Setup Stocks found in this category are low priced stocks priced between .50 and $1, with at least 50k shares of average shares trading per day. The stocks are pausing a trend either up or down, with a new bar over the prior day open or close. These are high reward to risk stocks with the […]
Read MoreVolatility appears to be returning to the markets this week, as concern is increasing about a second wave of COVID-19 infections. Yesterday Fed chair Jerome Powell announced the Fed was planning to keep rates at or near zero through 2022 to support economic recovery following a near-complete shutdown of U.S. business activity in an effort […]
Read MoreNo matter what your investing philosophy is, or how you go about identifying stocks in which to consider putting your money to work, one of the most basic questions you have to ask yourself if whether the potential opportunity outweighs the opposite potential for loss. I like to call that portion of my system reward: […]
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