Prior to the November 8th Presidential election Transport stocks had some ol ‘timey Dow Jones watchers a bit worried, with the IYT, the iShares Transport etf having failed to keep pace with the broad market’s …
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We are getting to that time of year when it might make sense to keep your eye on some of the worst performing large cap stocks, particularly those in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Get …
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Last night, I was on a panel of market participants appearing in front of a group of self directed investors with considerable assets. One that I met after the event had recently won the lottery …
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On February 4, 1997 I started working at a hedge fund as an assistant trader charged with supporting equity and options traders (think getting lots of coffee and tedious lunch orders). Back then most news …
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Traders are a weird breed. Some are superstitious, while others like to piece together potentially unrelated data points and create market timing signals. I tend to fall in the “wear the same pair of underwear …
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MorningWord 11/26/13: Here is a news flash to regular readers of this space – I have not been a raging bull in this raging bull market. But readers of the site know that our real …
Continue readingThe DJIA has been a major laggard relative to the other U.S. equity indices in the past month, and one big reason has been the weak performance of IBM. Given that the Dow Jones 30 …
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MorningWord 3/14/13: Tuesday on Fast Money I was asked to respond to a viewer Tweet about BBRY, whether to Buy Sell or Hold with the stock around $14.50? If I recall correctly, my answer was …
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MorningWord 3/13/13: Last night, the FAA set the course for BA to commence limited tests flights of their Dreamliners with their newly designed battery systems. This is obviously great news for BA which has had their worldwide fleet of forty nine 787s …
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MorningWord 3/12/13: AAPL is most certainly trying to put in a bottom after its almost 40% peak to trough draw-down from the Sept highs. For most of yesterday’s trading AAPL, continued its relative under-performance looking like it was …
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