The 3 Types Of Volatility, Explained Understanding The 3 Kinds of Volatility With recent market activity in assets like Bonds, Gold and Japan, it reminds traders that prices can go down as well as up — and we’re suddenly starting to hear more about volatility again. Today we’ll discuss the different types of volatility related to stocks and ETFs. 1)...
13+ Dividend Stocks That Could Be The New Nifty 50 Dividend Stocks, the New Nifty 50? While central banks' policies inflate a bubble in income equities, a nervous bull says the greater risk is not to buy them. Nifty Fifty. It's a phrase out of stock-market history, one familiar to most of today's investors only from history books, but an...
Stay Tuned For A Bottom In Gold, Silver And Miners Precious Metals & Miners Start Bottoming Process Precious metals and their related mining stocks continue to underperform the broad market. This year's heavy volume breakdown below key support has many investors and trader's spooked, creating to a steady stream of selling pressure for gold and silver bullion and mining stocks....
Homebuilders, Home Depot, and Lumber Prices The Headline Data That Financial Media Ignored This Week Wednesday was a wild trading session where we saw the largest intraday selloff in the S&P 500 E-Mini futures (SPX) (SPY) that we have seen in some time. Intraday price action was driven largely by statements made by Chairman Bernanke and the release of...
What Stocks & Sectors Top Hedge Funds Are Buying (And Selling) Funds increase bet in consumer discretionary, Google present in majority of funds Q1 2013: Funds Increase Bet in Consumer Discretionary Stocks The 50 largest hedge funds increased their equity exposure by over 5% in Q1 2013. This quarter, Boeing Co. (BA) was the favorite allocation of the funds. The stock...
The 3000 Year Brief History of Options, Derivatives, and Futures Trading A History of Derivatives : A 3,000 year History 1700 BC – The history of derivatives is very long, there is even a reference in the Bible – Genesis 29 where Laban offers Jacob an option to marry his youngest daughter Rachel in exchange for seven years of labor. After seven...
6 Key Questions Say Bull Market Can Continue 'Bear Market Checklist' Goes a Perfect 0-for-6 David Darst has six boxes on his bear market checklist, and none of them are filled in yet. The Morgan Stanley chief investment strategist is a realist – cautious but not cowering, optimistic but not overzealous. So when he looks at the current bull market,...
Golf & Trading Several years ago, I had a very long conversation with some associates about how playing golf and trading the markets are similar. Many other traders have made the very same connection. One fellow in particular shared his favorite quotes about the game of golf noticing how if you substituted the word 'trading' for every time the word 'golf' appears...
The Modern Art of Tape Reading & 6 Favorite Trading Indicators The Old Days Tape reading, as I define the art form, is the unemotional analysis of the trend of stock valuation culled by the cause of that change in value, the velocity of that change in value, and the intensity of that change in value as these changes relate...
Bubble Forming in Dividend Stocks & Bonds? Where is the Larger Bubble: the S&P 500 Index or U.S. Treasuries? W've have a plethora of companies reporting earnings and are moving through the 1st Quarter earnings season at a rapid pace. Thus far, earnings have been far from exciting and have made the previous 2013 forward earnings estimates laughable. The only way we...
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