Category Archive: Finance
Best Dividend Paying Stocks For Dividend Growth Investors – August 2018
Dividend growth investing is a very popular approach which can fit within the ModernGraham methods. This article will look at companies reviewed by ModernGraham which have grown their dividends annually for at least the last 20 years.Out of over 900 companies covered by ModernGraham, only 73 have grown dividends annually for at least the last 20 […]
SPX Is Setting Up To Retest The All-Time Highs Again From January
My Swing Trading Approach Should the market pullback today, I will look to spot any of the stocks that are providing a solid dip buying opportunity. Should the market continue higher, I’ll look to add 1-2 new momentum plays to the portfolio. The 2801 price level remains key going forward. Indicators Volatility Index (VIX) – Looking […]
E Forex Analysis Of GBP/USD For Monday, August 6
First, we look into the previous day trade and what happened on August 3, 2018, and the GBP/USD pair opened at 1.30145 and went high at 1.30378 and gone to low at 1.29850 and finally closed at 1.29965. The calculated pivot point for the day is 1.30064. The difference between high and low was nearly […]
USDCAD Daily Analysis – Monday, August 6
USDCAD extended its downside movement from 1.3289 to as low as 1.2967. Near-term resistance is at the falling trend line on the 4-hour chart. As long as the trend line resistance holds, the downtrend could be expected to continue and next target would be at 1.2900. Key resistance is at 1.3096, only a break of […]
GBP/USD Double Trend Line Confluence
Source: Admiral Markets MT5 with MT5SE Add-on The GBP/USD has broken the bearish consolidation below 1.3070 level. A retracement within 1.3055-3085 could spark a new wave of sellers. The POC zone is marked by two descending trend lines and EMA89. If the price gets in the zone, we should see a rejection towards 1.2959 and 1.2917. A h1 […]
NZD/USD – Bull Speculation: Correction From The Lower Line Of The 2-2 Channel Looks Likely
Trading opportunities on the currency pair: There’s a familiar pattern on the weekly timeframe, by which we could see the Kiwi dollar start an upwards correction after the RBNZ meeting. If prices reverse along the same trajectory as the previous drop, the immediate target will then be 0.6990. This outcome is still on the cards as […]
E Markets: Two-Sided
Tails I win, heads you lose? Hopes for an easy Monday for risk in perhaps the quietest week for economic news this summer have been dashed with the two-sided coin of FX. Is this USD strength or foreign weakness? The drivers of USD support are the FOMC rate hike path – 4 in 2018, 2-3 more in […]
Breaking Higher? Stocks At A Crossroads
The U.S. stock market indexes gained 0.1-0.5% on Friday, as investors’ sentiment slightly improved following Nonfarm Payrolls number release. The S&P 500 index extends its short-term fluctuations following a breakout above the level of 2,800. It currently trades just 1.1% below the January’s 26th record high of 2,872.87. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.5% and the technology Nasdaq […]
Turkish Lira Tumbles To Fresh Record Lows, Bonds Crash As Actions Speak Louder Than Words
The Turkish Lira tumbled from the 6th straight day, collapsing to new record lows as ‘actions’ have overtaken ‘words’ in the rhetoric battle between Erdogan and Trump over the future of a detained American pastor. Specifically, the last few days have seen Turkey retaliate to US sanctions by freezing the assets of several US government officials, […]
Earnings And Guidance Trends This Season
More than 1,500 stocks have now reported Q2 earnings, and as shown below, the percentage of them that have beaten consensus EPS estimates is down slightly this quarter versus the last two quarters. Forward guidance numbers have been more positive than negative thus far. The chart below shows the spread between the percentage of companies […]
