Investing Idea: Money Remittance Stocks
Back in December 2012, I briefly touched on money remittance flows specifically to Asia. In this post, I would like to touch on playing this...
Video Blog: Is an October 2007-Like Stock Market Top Days Away?
After seeing the S&P 500 drop over 50% in both the 2000-2003 and 2007-2009 bear markets, investors are understandably hesitant to redeploy their hard-earned...
Small & Mid Cap Market Leadership A Healthy Sign
Since it can provide valuable information about investors’ tolerance for risk, monitoring market leadership is a worthwhile habit. When conservative consumer staples lead, it...
Market Masters: Using Market Breadth for Portfolio Positioning
By Derek Hernquist   The Dow Jones Industrials are up 1% and you make an average of 2% each across your 10 longs. A week...
Crafting the Right Approach to Sustainable Investing
My previous post on sustainable investing introduced the concept and concluded that making sustainability a focus or a part of your investment criteria can...
Sci-Fi Friday: Russell 2000 About to Cross the Streams
Market-leading small-cap benchmark Russell 2000Â (RUT) just closed out the last full trading week of July +23.7% YTD, currently outpacing...just about every major asset class...
Is the Housing Recovery Faltering?
Something interesting happened on the way to the much-vaunted Housing recovery. To the apparent dismay and consternation of the Fed and homebuyers waiting in...
Options Trading Education: Let’s Double the Diagonal
In the past two columns I have discussed spreading time, also known as calendar spreads. There are horizontal time spreads which use the same...
Market Masters: The Crude Realities of Trading Through a Losing Streak
By Jon Boorman    We all know the old maxim of running winners and cutting losers. It's been cited numerous times in many of the...
Question Everything: Challenging Your Market Opinions
Given the delicate context the broad market up-trend finds itself in, this morning marked one of those rare occasions in which I check the...