Last week was another good one for US stock markets, in fact US equities had their best August since 2000 and it was the best monthly performance since February. That took the S&P 500 to another record close past the 2,000 level while the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq also remained strong. This week […]
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5 Cheapest Stock Markets In The World Right Now
How this was created With US stock markets at all time highs, traders and investors are becoming nervous about the steepening valuation of US equities. Everybody is talking about volatility and volume right now and both of these conditions suggest that a significant market correction could be near. The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) has long […]
Time To Buy 3D Systems?
Last November, at a price of $80 a share, I wrote an article for Seeking Alpha saying 3D Systems (DDD) had entered an extremely overbought state which could only end in a significant share price correction. Although the share price proceeded to fall around 13% after I made the claim, 3D Systems ended up going […]
How to play China like Jim Rogers
If you want to be successful at investing or trading you need to find your own way. I don’t see much point subscribing to any of these stock picking services or ‘Guru’ picks. (Unless of course they are used to educate yourself as to how to find good trades.) That being said, one of my […]
Stock market warning as volatility drops to historical lows
US stock markets fell yesterday indicating a new stock market warning with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping -0.25% while the Nasdaq sank -0.28% and the S&P 500 fell -0.11%. The fall comes after four days of rallies took global markets to a record value of $63.8 trillion and saw the S&P 500 hit another […]
14 tips for share trading online and making it big
I have been trading stocks and shares for at least 6 years now so these tips for share trading come from direct experience in the markets. For me, stocks are the best instruments to trade. There are so many of them that there is always an opportunity to be found. 14 tips for share trading […]
Is Apple stock still a good buy?
US stock markets reversed losses on Monday after ISM non-manufacturing numbers came out and Billionaire investor Warren Buffett spoke enthusiastically about the state of American business. A contraction in Chinese manufacturing, and continuing violence in Ukraine, caused markets to open lower but stock markets were not in the red for too long and managed to […]
3 Earnings stock picks 11 March
Notwithstanding escalation in Eastern Europe, this week’s economic calendar is relatively quiet with just US retail sales (Thursday), and University of Michigan confidence (Friday) taking centre stage. On Wednesday, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand meet and are expected to raise rates a quarter percent to 2.75%. For forex traders I think there is more […]
Tomorrow’s stock picks – 10 March 2014
Tomorrow’s stock picks are based on price action patterns as I’ve found that short-term trading opportunities are much more easily found using technical analysis over fundamentals. For a good book on technical analysis see John Murphy’s encyclopaedic Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications (New York Institute of […]
Best stocks to watch this week
Best stocks to watch this week Traders have their work cut out for them this week and significant volatility could be in store. Not only will we see interest rate decisions from the ECB, BOE, RBA and Bank of Canada, traders will also be watching US non farm payrolls on Friday. However, all that could […]
