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6 Stocks That Analysts Say Could Double
Wall Street analysts often focus their research on up and coming companies. They do this for a couple of reasons. One reason is that they hope to generate new business. Another reason is that they…
May 17, 2018
Is Walmart the Next Amazon?
Recently Walmart announced plans to acquire a 77% stake in India’s Flipkart for $16 billion. Flipkart is an Indian eCommerce company that was initially focused on book sales, but soon expanded into…
May 15, 2018
How Small Investors can Benefit from Large Caps
Large cap stocks can be among the safest stock market investments. These are large companies and are known as blue chip investments. A blue chip company is defined as “a nationally recognized,…
May 3, 2018
Anatomy of a Trading Range
In general, we like to see stocks going up and dread extended declines. Although individual investors will all have different time frames they consider, they tend to define an up trend as a series of…
Mar 27, 2018
The Best Technical Trading Strategies
Technical analysis is the study of prices. Proponents of the discipline argue that history has a tendency to repeat and a study of market action in the past can be a useful tool for forecasting the…
Mar 8, 2018
The Dancer Who Made $2 Million Trading Stocks
One of the greatest investment books ever published was written by a professional dancer. The 1960 book, How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market, was written by Nicolas Darvas. Other than his…
Feb 27, 2018
What It Really Means When a Company Beats Earnings Estimates
As investors we hear it all the time. The analyst comes on CNBC and tells us a stock is soaring because the company beat earnings estimates. Or, we notice a stock is falling sharply and when we…
Feb 20, 2018
Indicators That Spot a Market Bottom
Now that the stock market has finally delivered a pull back, it is important to think about which indicators will signal the likely completion of the down move. It is also important to remember that…
Feb 13, 2018
Analysts Tap These Cheap Stocks for Growth
One big story keeps coming up in the stock market. It’s tax reform. Analysts are still sorting through the implications of the new rules but there is a general agreement that changes to the tax code…
Jan 25, 2018
Wrapping Up Our Monthly Seasonal Strategy
Over the past year, we have shared trades based on a seasonal strategy. At the beginning of every month, we provided real time buy recommendations and we also tracked the results of the previous…
Dec 26, 2017
Timing Buys, or When to Buy
Right now, the stock market has been in an up trend for years and hasn’t suffered a pull back of 5% or more in more than a year. This seems like we could be near a significant top. And, that means…
Dec 14, 2017
Rules for Selling
Some investors seem to spend most of their time deciding what to buy. They should probably be spending an equal amount of time thinking about when they will sell. This might be uncomfortable because…
Dec 5, 2017
Seven Tech Stocks Under $7 to Buy Now
The end of year tends to be a seasonally strong period for stocks. Some analysts believe the January effect has moved into the end of year with stocks doing better in the final weeks of the year as…
Nov 23, 2017
Pattern in Profits Create Patterns in Prices
The stock market seems mysterious at first glance. Prices move up and down, seemingly based on the whims of traders. There is a sense of disorder in the price movements. Since many individuals prefer…
Nov 9, 2017
Get Ahead of Uncle Sam
When the ball drops in Times Square on midnight, January 1, 2018, the old year is over. This means your tax bill is due and there is little you can do at that point to lower the bill. You can make…
Oct 17, 2017
The Cheapest Stocks in the S&P 500
Investors are increasingly worried about a bear market. This is probably almost always true but there are more reasons than usual to worry right now. Valuations are stretched, with many fundamental…
Sep 19, 2017
When an Overbought Indicator is a Buy Signal
The stock market is overbought. That is a common theme on CNBC as analysts talk about how extended averages are. They are certainly correct that the S&P 500 and some of the other major averages…
Aug 3, 2017
The Best Trades for August, From a Strategy Up More Than 20% This Year
You may recall that we began sharing real time buy recommendations for a successful trading strategy at the beginning of the year. Each month, we provide a list of stocks that have historically…
Aug 1, 2017
Cheap Peter Lynch Stocks
Peter Lynch is one of the most successful investment managers of all time. But, he retired many years ago and many new investors are unfamiliar with him. That is unfortunate since there is much to…
Jul 20, 2017
What Short Term Trading Strategies Really Work?
In a recent blog post, we highlighted the potential benefits of using short term trading strategies. One advantage of trading frequently can be the fact that it allows a trader to rapidly compound…
Jul 18, 2017