Apple Inc (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) are telling a different story on their respective daily charts - AAPL sits at support on a potential buy signal while GOOG has fallen beneath resistance on a potential sell signal nearing possible support. Let’s take a quick look to see if we can make any... Continue Reading
Submitted BySal Mangano
"Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard." - Paul Simon, Was A Sunny Day
Today's durable goods report surprised investors by posting a rise of 1.3% in new orders for the month of July. This was way more than the anemic 0.2% expected by economists. Shipments clocked...
Submitted ByCorey Rosenbloom
Apple Inc (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) are telling a different story on their respective daily charts - AAPL sits at support on a potential buy signal while GOOG has fallen beneath resistance on a potential sell signal nearing possible support. Let’s take a quick look to see if we can make any...
Submitted ByDobromir Stoyanov
So far I have concentrated my attention primarily on the Dividend Aristocrats and the High-Yield Dividend aristocrats, both published by the S&P. Those lists include companies which are members of the S&P 1500 and which have raised their dividends for more than 25 consecutive years. I have...
Submitted BySal Mangano
One of the stocks that showed up on this week's Alert HQ list of BUY signals based on daily data is Cree, Inc. (CREE)
It has a chart that meets the Alert HQ criteria. The stock has been in a steady decline for months and has just popped up over its 50-day moving average. Its DMI is turning positive...
Submitted ByCorey Rosenbloom
With the mention of the Russell 2000 and NASDAQ forming similar patterns, let’s take a quick look at the actual NASDAQ index to let it speak for itself.
NASDAQ Daily Chart:
The Index formed a negative momentum divergence going into resistance in May, which led to the June and July downswing...
Submitted ByTrader Mark
We're closing the 0.8% stake in Petrobras (t.com/quote/PBR">PBR) - while Hurricane Gustav bears down on (potentially) the Gulf of Mexico and that could drive up all the energy stocks - that pretty much sums up the reason to sell for now...
Submitted ByCorey Rosenbloom
It’s time to look at the top and bottom 10 stocks in the S&P 500 Index in terms of percentage above or below its 20 day simple moving average, which attempts to measure stock strength and weakness, and introduce possible trading opportunities.
What we’re looking at is the percentage that price...
Submitted ByTrader Mark
I'll update this entry at 3 PM but every quarter the FDIC updates it's problem list; I'm on record saying when we look back in 12, 18, 24 months we'll see a slew of bank failures, many of which are names we've never heard of...
Submitted ByEric J. Fox
White Mountains Insurance (WTM) held its annual analyst meeting on June 17, and I finally got around to listening to the webcast. The URL is here if you want to listen yourself.I have written five other posts on the meeting. They are:WTM - Introductory CommentsWTM - The Reserve IssueWTM - Review...
Submitted ByJoshua Hayes
August 25, 2008Usually on a day that sees all the indexes fall 200 points there is a ton to talk about. But the fact that volume was extremely low and that I have been talking about this recent volume failing there was not a whole lot of anything new that happened today...