What’s Hot And What’s Not: Retail Trade Employment Vs Food Services And Drinking Places
Inquiring minds may be interested in how the retail sector employment is performing vs food services and drinking places employment. Let’s take a look. Retail Trade vs Food Service and Drinking – Thousands of Employees Retail Trade vs Food Service and Drinking – Percent Change from Year Ago Retail trade is not where you want […]
Why The Transports ETF Breakdown May Not Matter
Today began on a down note presumably due to concern that comments President Trump made last night suggested that raising the debt ceiling may be at risk. After the market opened lower it didn’t have any decisive follow through up or down. After a strong day like yesterday, it’s nice to see follow through to […]
Stocks To Watch: NFLX, INFO, MON
Today’s stock picks Long Netflix (NFLX) Long IHS Markit (INFO) Short Monsanto (MON)
HDV: An ETF With Safety, Strength And A Solid Yield
I’ve advocated for funds that focus on dividend aristocrats for some time. They generally represent some of the best and sturdiest companies in the world and provide a degree of income security that many other investments can’t. The problem is that many of these funds just don’t pay big yields. Funds that invest in long-term […]
Kite Pharma – Chart Of The Day
The Chart of the Day belongs to Kite Pharma (KITE). I found the biopharmaceutical stock by using Barchart to sort today’s All Time High list first for the highest Weighted Alpha, then again for technical buy signal of 80% or more. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 6/8 the stock gained 55.42%. Kite Pharma, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical […]
So You Wanted To Be “Long Electricity” Into The Eclipse?
Energy traders who had hoped to make an easy profit by betting that spot electricity prices would climb around midday on Monday – an idea they may have found on this website – were bitterly disappointed when, instead of spiking, prices tumbled because of an unexpectedly large drop in demand. Utilities and grid operators had […]
Believe The Market, Not The Headlines
The biggest advantage of passive investing is not that it mirrors the market; that advantage becomes a disadvantage when the market declines. No, the real advantage of passive investing is that investors pay less attention to the inter- and intra-day fluctuations caused by headlines designed less to inform than to encourage reading long enough to […]
Kocic: Complacency Has Declined Sharply – But You Probably Didn’t Realize It
Back in June, Deutsche Bank’s Aleksandar Kocic set out to quantify complacency. While there’s certainly been no shortage of commentary containing the term “complacency” from analysts and pundits, the idea of putting a number on it was new. Kocic’s approach was relatively straightforward and his note (which you can read in the linked post above) explaining the rationale and […]
That’s Odd, I’ve Seen That Curve History Somewhere Before
Orthodox monetary theory tells us that central banks matter, a lot. Monetary policy is supposed to be the difference in everything from economy to currency. If one central is doing one thing and another central bank something different, it is presumed the only necessary information to infer what markets and therefore economies might do in […]
Snap Inc. Shares Rise As Teen Facebook Users Migrate To Snapchat
Investors who have held Facebook (FB) shares for years are probably well-accustomed to concerns that the social network is falling out of favor among teens, which date back years, but these concerns have resurfaced this week. One firm predicts that for the second year in a row, this key demographic of Facebook users may actually cut […]
