Getty Images Getty Images The best technical analysis is the simplest. But first, for the TA haters: get over it. TA still gets a bad rap by people who see it as market mumbo-jumbo of a bygone era; the scammy weapon of choice by 80s and 90s Jordan Belfort types trying to sound smarter than …
Bull and Bear on stock market prices getty The stock markets have had another very strong year with the Dow 30 Industrials, S&P 500 and Nasdaq up 18.7%, 26.9% and 21.4%, respectively. Over the past three years the S&P 500 has almost doubled by increasing 90% with gains of 29%, 16% and 27% from 2019 …
Traders work on the floor at the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. (Photo by Bryan R. … [+] Smith / AFP) (Photo by BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images The S&P 500 closed at 4,766, which was an increase of 1,010 points or 26.9% for the year and …
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A trader reacts as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (Photo by Kena … [+] Betancur/Getty Images) Getty Images The S&P 500 Index turned in another very strong year, increasing 26.9% when stock market forecasters had expected a more muted gain of 7.7%. While it is impossible for them to …
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Cliff Asness of AQR Capital Management NLY is \very excited\ that they\’ve been able to turn a profit on their value stocks this year while value has gotten \way cheaper\ and \record cheap.\ As a result, he\’s also excited for 2022 and beyond as he expects the coming years also to be good for value …
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Photography/Avalon/Getty Images) Getty Images The bullish holiday seasonality is in effect. In the three trading days on either side of Christmas, the market has risen about two-thirds of the time. If the averages have risen in the calendar year prior to this time span, the odds are even higher. The first half of this seasonality …
Home office getty We used to call these “story stocks.” This referred to a kind of company that floated upward mainly on the expectation that a fabulous story underlying the stock could lead to continuous hyper-growth forever. Sea Limited and Square SQ (now Block) qualified under the exciting hot concept of “network effects.” At least, …
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Nasdaq sign reflected in winter snow melt (Photo by Stephen Chernin/Getty Images) Getty Images The Nasdaq Composite recent underperformance looks different. Even though the Nasdaq exchange carries the largest popular stocks, the Nasdaq index has lagged the S&P 500 by more than 3% over the past month (Nov. 17 to Dec. 17). More concerning is …
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(Photo by Kena Betancur) Getty Images The Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq Composite, Dow Jones Transport Average and Russell 2000 Index have negative weekly charts. The S&P 500 Index has a neutral weekly chart. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index has a positive but overbought weekly chart. A decline of just 41 points or more will downgrade …
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Real Average Weekly Earnings Universal Value Advisors Like clockwork, as soon as the Fed caved into constant market and media pressure to tighten, announced a speed-up of the QE “taper” and showed much more hawkish “dots” (the graphical plot of FOMC member views of where the Fed Funds rate will be in 2022, 23, and …
