A Different Perspective On Market Valuations
Risk is not a number. Risk is simply overpaying for an asset.
Investment managers who avoid overpaying for assets increase their odds of purchasing...
Market Leans On Corporate Buybacks As Earnings Decline
Late last year as the Federal Reserve was unwinding quantitative easing (QE), there was suspense in the air as to how this might impact...
The Art Of Trading And The Illusion Of Control
I’ve written and said many times before that simplicity is a good thing—if you have a trading methodology that is overly complex, there’s a...
Gold Bugs Trend Change? Keep An Eye On This Ratio Chart
The chart below looks at the S&P 500 to Gold Bugs Index ratio over the past 20 years.
As you can see the ratio trended...
Should Investors Own Small Caps? An ETF Study
Small cap stocks were one of the strongest areas of the market in the first half of the year and have recently seen much...
Crude Oil Prices Sink To Interesting Level On 30 Year Chart
For the past several weeks I have been waiting for Crude Oil prices to get back down to current levels, around $42 per barrel....
Trading Ideas: 5 Stocks To Watch (BAH, NOC, TBT, TSCO, And WY)
Today's price action should not have come as a surprise to anyone: following yesterday's broadly bullish push, the market indices took a day to...
The Power In Using Market Charts That Others Ignore
My pal Callum Thomas is one of my favorite follows on StockTwits. Every Saturday night he compiles what he calls his #ChartStorm. It is...
Unusual Options Activity: BXLT, GPS, LB, And TIF
It’s time to review several stocks that had unusual options activity over the last week. Although traders can never be sure why these trades take place (and...
Are The Bulls Ready To Run Stocks Higher?
Last week was another reminder that the ole “Summertime Trading” myth is basically extinct: we are officially in the dog days of summer yet...
