Legendary investor Warren Buffett is often blindly followed by investors looking to ride his coat tails. After all, he has one of the best long-term track records on stock market investing. But investors make one common mistake... They don't understand…
Last week, we began talking about sector rotation investing by looking at how stocks are really traded in the market. We saw that the buying and selling by giant institutions is the engine that truly drives stock prices. And we looked at how…
“Medicare for all”… Those three little words were all it took to cause an entire sector to implode. While the S&P 500 posted a 6% decline, Healthcare gained 5% last year, outperforming the benchmark index by nearly 1100 basis points.…
One of the most powerful tools we use to determine the strength and condition of the stock market is the Investors Intelligence Advisor's Sentiment Index. A tool like this would be great to have at every party, bar, club, lounge…
Some years ago, a reporter interviewed the great Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. He asked, "If you could think of one sentence that captures our most important scientific information, what would it be"? Feynman answered, "Everything is made of atoms". Had Feynman been an investor…
Earnings season is about to rev into high gear. Over the next few weeks, hundreds of companies will report first quarter financial results, and that means plenty of volatility and potholes for investors to avoid. And this earnings season may…
Did you know that the millennial generation (a person reaching young adulthood in the early 21st century) is about the same size as the baby boomer generation? The future of the U.S. is in the hands of the millennial generation,…
If the first quarter's earnings season was an episode of Game of Thrones, winter has arrived! After a two year hiatus, the eighth and final season of one of the most successful television series in history will premiere on Sunday,…
Too many stock traders want the secret sauce that's going to all but guarantee profits. But it just doesn't exist. There's no silver bullet. Thank goodness there are stock market indicators and charting platforms that generate signals on what to…
You finish your research and due diligence, and finally pull the trigger on a trade. The stock price begins rising, along with your spirits. It's all working out! But then your satisfaction begins to turn into something like paranoia. You remember that you can't spend…