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Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) is a company that grew into a market leader by creating a market. In 2010, the company was so well respected that a movie covered the company’s story. In “The Social Network,” viewers learned that “in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer genius Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, he is one of the youngest billionaires ever, but Zuckerberg finds that his unprecedented success leads to both personal and legal complications when he ends up on the receiving end of two ...
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Imagine you had a penny that doubled in value every day for a month. Sure, after a week, you’d only have a paltry sixty-four cents. That’s not even enough to buy something off the dollar menu at your favorite fast-food joint. After another two weeks, you’d have less than $10. But if you can hold out for just two more weeks, the doubling power will turn that starting penny into $1.3 million dollars. That’s the power of compounding. Now, we don’t have magic pennies (that I know of). But we do have the next best thing: Dividend stocks. When companies pay their shareholders money, investors ...
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Marijuana is facing the possible end of prohibition and investors need to consider the possibilities associated with that. Under prohibition, marijuana became a multi-billion dollar industry. Its products were differentiated by quality but for the most part maintained the same form. Legalization opens up research and development opportunities. Already, marijuana is available in a variety of forms including edibles, oils and different strains targeting different ailments under medical usage. While small companies are exciting to invest in, large companies could be the key to the introduction of new products since the large companies have the capital to invest in development and distribution ...
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Tech stocks in 2000. Gold in 2011. Cryptocurrencies in 2017. Pot stocks in 2018. They all followed the same pattern. They had massive gains. They started from small rises, but over time, they started to rise at a faster and faster rate. Speculation and greed took over. Any attempt to curb prices on the way up were swamped with buy orders instead. Along the way, a parabolic chart pattern started to unfold. That’s a tough pattern to trade—once every investor who wants in has gotten in, early investors reap large rewards. Once sellers start to outweigh buyers, the prices deflate nearly as quickly ...
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Apple has been in the headlines lately, but close readers of the news may have noticed Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) is also capturing attention. One reason is related to the important question of censorship by tech companies. The Associated Press noted, “Netflix faced criticism…from human rights groups for pulling an episode in Saudi Arabia of comedian Hasan Minhaj’s “Patriot Act” series that criticized the kingdom’s powerful crown prince. The American comedian used his second episode, released Oct. 28, to criticize Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the killing of writer Jamal Khashoggi and the Saudi-led coalition at war in Yemen. Human rights group ...
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Most chart patterns can appear over any timeframe. But a number of unusual-looking patterns often take place over a shorter period of time, such as a day or an hour, or even less. These patterns may not look like anything at first, compared to typical continuation or reversal patterns, but they can lead to powerful returns in a very short amount of time as they unfold. From the oft-occurring ABCD trade to the cup-and-handle to flag patterns, these trades are perfect for jumping in and out of stocks and foreign currencies in the span of a few hours. These patterns show what traders ...
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Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) ended the year in an interesting position. Its stock was in a down trend. This reverses a long standing up trend in the stock. Recent lows, marked with a horizontal blue line in the chart, should offer support. But a break below that level could lead to a sharp sell off since that is an important and obvious technical support level on the chart. A break of that line could push the stock towards $100 a share, a price level that sounds impossible but could be within the realm of possibility in a bear market. Analysts expect the company to report ...
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Charts can provide plenty of profitable trading patterns time and again. But they can also be deceiving. That’s because most charts don’t share key data. It can tell you a price point on a given day—which is handy. But there’s more to a price chart than price. For instance, if a stock keeps moving higher day after day, it may look like a good trade. But if it’s bouncing around during trading hours and only barely heading higher, it may not look like the slam dunk that it could be. To find these extreme intra-day moves, and to get an idea of where the ...
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