The US Dollar ($uup) looks solid and ought to proceed with higher while US Treasuries ($tlt) stay in an uptrend however the inversion warning is running up the flagpole. In the outside businesses the Shanghai Composite ($fxi) is extremely solid and ought to proceed with higher with Emerging Markets ($eem) attempting to switch higher and […]
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The January Effect
December is turning out to be the last demonstration of a robust year for stocks. The S&p 500 is up more thank 10% as of now. Shares of little organizations are of exceptional enthusiasm since they’ve been skipping once more in the wake of slacking. The Russell 2000 list of little stocks is up 0.7% […]
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Seasonal Investing
December is the number one S&P 500 month and second best for DJIA since 1950, averaging gains of 1.7% on each index. It’s also the top Russell 1000 and Russell 2000 (1979) month and second best for NASDAQ (1971). Rarely does the market fall precipitously in December. In midterm years, December’s rankings slip modestly, but […]
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Credit Markets
One of the best indicators this year in raising the red flag before a pullback has been the junk bond (AKA: high yield) market. Shown below is the Barclays U.S. Corporate High Yield Average Option Adjusted Spread (OAS) inverted for directional similarity along with the S&P 500. The OAS spread began to tick higher before […]
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AS LONG AS THESE PULLBACKS HAVE A NAME STOCKS HEAD HIGHER
The Euro Crisis, The Flash Crash, The U.S. Debt Downgrade, The Fiscal Cliff, The Sequester, Cyprus. What do all of these media spectacles have in common over the last 5 years? They were all fabulous buying opportunities for stocks. In each case, stocks plunged initially as traders were scared enough to sell, only to […]
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Day Trading
When someone says day trading, he/she means buying and selling stock within the same day. To understand fundamentals of day trading, consider yourself a merchant in the market and by the end of the day you have to re position yourself with no stocks. What does a day trader do? Day trader performs the following […]
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Mutual Fund
Mutual Funds are a collection of investments under one umbrella which is managed by a professional. These investments can be anything from stocks, commodities to bonds and money market securities. There are many types of Mutual Funds as everyone has a different goal and investment strategy. Mutual Funds can be considered as a form of […]
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Commodity
A basic material used in manufacturing or commerce that is interchangeable with other the same commodities coming from a different source. The quality of a specific commodity may differ slightly, but it is essentially uniform across producers. When they are traded on an exchange, commodities must also meet specified minimum standards, also known as a […]
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