This is what I’d call a highly unusual “Santa Claus rally” period - what with the consecutive days of selling and all. But keep it in perspective; volume is light this time of year and the bears don’t have much fight in them right now. This is a great time to reflect on a record
By any measure, the “Santa Claus rally” that historically boosts stocks through the end of a calendar year has failed. There are just a handful of trading sessions left in the Santa Claus rally period, but I still see folks hopefully scanning the horizon in hopes the jolly fat bull might appear… The
We need to talk about what's happening in these markets right now. Because the Santa rally is now toast… We're seeing something that should get your attention - extreme correlations across sectors that we haven't witnessed in recent memory. Sure, tech's been holding everything together, but when you
This month we’ve explored a few of my favorite fundamental criteria, like free cash flow and operating margin, to name a few, for picking safe stocks with great upside potential. Let’s keep it going, and look at two other boring-sounding numbers that can spice up your returns: assets-to-liabilities
Stocks nailed a higher low last week - which we discussed at length in the TheoTrade live trading room. I’m seeing strong leadership from the tech sector and emerging strength in semiconductors, too. I’ve been pounding the table about this for a few weeks now; these two conditions tick that final “b
We’re about to go through the “Turn” from 2024 to 2025… and I’ve got outperformance on my mind. I want to ensure we’re looking at the publicly traded stocks offering the best chance at superior returns in the coming year. We have to consider the likelihood that 2025 will not be like the FOMO-driven
The Fed straight-up stole Christmas. But that’s not the only game in town. I’m talkin’ Festivus… the Pole, the Airing of Grievances, the Feats of Strength… I’d bet the last two days have left unprepared traders with a lot of grievances to get out there. No grievances from my Three Trades a Week peop
The markets started the week half-asleep, but yesterday, when Fed Chairman Powell took future rate cuts off the table, they woke up terrified and fell right out of bed. A lot of leading stocks, like Tesla and Nvidia took massive, multibillion-dollar haircuts in a matter of minutes. A lot of investor
The markets got the hawkish version of Powell today… and the implication that there won’t be any more rate cuts. The big indexes don’t like Hawkish Powell, not one bit. They took his remarks “poorly.” And by “poorly” I mean “they jumped off a cliff.” So what had been a kinda-up day turned into a
