Hi everybody. Welcome to another Small-Cap Saturday. Today's briefing will be briefer than normal, for a very good reason. I'm currently on a multi-city tour of technology conferences. (In fact, I began writing this column from a Hospitality Room at the "Future…
If there’s one word to describe current market conditions, it’s volatile. Since the calendar flipped to October, the month has certainly lived up its infamous reputation. We’ve seen all the major stock market averages move in excess of 1% in…
Happy Saturday friends... The baseball post season is upon us, and I'm more than normally excited. I'm a Met fan... but I'm also a life-long New Yorker, so... go Yankees! If you're no fan of baseball, you still have a…
Mr. Market just delivered a stern reminder to investors that October deserves its infamous reputation for volatility. And he wasted little time; the warning arrived on the very first trading day of the month. On Tuesday, October 1st, all three major stock indices…
Buying puts is similar to "shorting" a stock (which is betting on the stock trading lower by selling it first, and buying it back at a cheaper price). Instead of shorting the stock directly, you are purchasing an option "contract"…
Happy Saturday everybody... Big Bill here. I'll bet that no one has ever told you what I'm about to share. But I promise you -- what follows can take you from zero to sixty as an investor tomorrow. So listen up...…
It’s been a little over 50 years since the Apollo 11 mission launched mankind to the moon. And today we're seeing a different kind of "moonshot", one that's sending portfolios past the Van Allen Belt and beyond. "Liftoff" for this…
Few things will boost your trading success as much as a solid understand of the “delta” of an option. The “delta” of an option measures how much the option changes in price when the underlying security moves one point. For example,…
Hi there... Big Bill here. Welcome to Small-Cap Saturday. Let's get right to it... There's nothing exotic about the company you're going to read about today. They're not out to cure cancer or conquer space... They just sell cars; lots of them.…
It’s time to bring the offense back onto the field! After a month-long slump in August, demand has regained control of the stock market again. The NYSE bullish percent index (BPI), the granddaddy of all stock market indicators, recently flipped…