Stock Market Outlook: Holding pattern until the Fall!
Seeing Value in Apple: Would a Stock Split Help?
Why is it so hard for individual investors to make winning decisions?Part of the answer is psychology. It starts with a simple question. When is a stock "expensive?"It often helps to have an example, so let us consider Apple (AAPL). The average investor thinks in one of the following... Continue Reading
Submitted BySal Mangano
The family wants me to watch the Super Bowl with them and stop this darn blogging. And you know, I think that's a pretty good idea so I'm just going provide a really abbreviated post that looks at our Alert HQ overall market statistics.
The following charts are derived from data collected during...
Submitted BySal Mangano
Everyone is aware that the market has been going through some tough times for the last few weeks. Major averages are off their peaks roughly 7% and a full-fledged 10% correction or worse is not out of the question.
It turns out, however, that not every stock is taking a dive. I ran a screen that...
Submitted BySal Mangano
This is a little different than the usual quick post announcing that the weekend's stock signals are now available at Alert HQ. I wanted to announce that I have made some changes to how some of the signals are generated.
I have blended a calculation of Slow Stochastics into the determination of...
Submitted ByStocksHaven
VirTra Systems, Inc.
(Public, OTC:VTSI.pk)
VirTra Systems and TheMarketFinancial.com have come to terms on collaborating and providing an update for the company to its shareholders. Along with a company profile, a questions and answers session has been confirmed and the date of release is...
Submitted ByTim Iacono
The Labor Department reported that the jobless rate fell from 10.0 percent in December to 9.7 percent in January and nonfarm payrolls declined by 20,000. Benchmark revisions to prior data and updated seasonal adjustment factors resulted in an additional decline of 1.2 million in payrolls, bringing...
Submitted BySal Mangano
This post is announcing that Thursday's Swing Signals, Trend Leaders, Trend Busters and Gap Signals are now available at Alert HQ. All are based on daily data.
Today we have the following:
5 Swing Signals -- 4 BUY signals and 1 SELL Signal.
117 Trend Leaders, all in strong up-trends according to...
Submitted ByThicken My Wallet
There are certain things that do, indeed, go up during economic down times: unemployment rates, welfare rolls, collective insecurity and litigation. Litigation is a boom business during recessions. Suddenly, parties cannot overlook their differences knowing that another pay cheque or deal is coming...
Submitted ByTrader Mark
I am cutting back on these names for identical reasons in all situations. Stocks that had blown through support and now have made their way back to a resistance area or very close; identical set up as we see in the major indexes. I will go with the same concept as with the indexes - if...
Submitted ByTrader Mark
Many stocks have bounced back from oversold levels last week, but the majority continue to have poor charts and trade below some key moving averages. One name I identified a few weeks ago as "very interested in" was Seagate Technology (aytoinvest.com/quote/STX">STX) - who is not in the...