New milestone alert! Investor margin debt exceeds $1 trillion for the first time ever. Permabears around the world are ringing the alarm bells trying to convince you this is somehow bad for stocks. “Margin debt” is money borrowed by investors…
Today I’m going to walk you through the process of how I think about a trade and an opportunity to profit. But this is one where I have more questions than answers. And that’s when I turn to friends for…
Editor’s Note: Due to technical difficulties, Monday’s issue of Everybody’s Wrong was not delivered to all subscribers’ inboxes. We apologize for the inconvenience. You can read The Nasdaq Gets the Hype While the Dow Pays the Bills on our website.…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is, in my experience, the most important index in the stock market. I understand many Americans, myself included, have benefited from all the success of the Nasdaq, filled with giant American tech companies. I get…
You never know where you’ll be or what you’ll be doing when a major life lesson hits you. The last place I ever expected to learn a trading lesson that will forever stick with me was on a visit to…
Here at Trendlabs, we focus on analyzing the behavior of the markets, and therefore we must also analyze the behavior of market participants – the humans. We’re always looking for divergences between what people are thinking and what the market…
Last night, in a matter of minutes, we saw $500 billion added to the market. Microsoft (MSFT) reported earnings after the close yesterday. Immediately after the release, the stock was up more than 8% in after-hours trading. That’s $300 billion…
Utilities can be a bull market asset too, you know! People assume Utilities doing well is a heads-up that the stock market could be taking a turn for the worse. But that’s not necessarily the case, at all. Everybody’s wrong.…
It’s common knowledge at this point that the average annual return for the S&P 500 is somewhere between 8% and 10%, depending on what year you start counting. You even see these numbers among many sell-side analysts when they come…
Japan is probably my favorite country to visit in the entire world. I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to do that a half dozen times over the years. Whenever I’m there, I’m reminded how much I love it. The…
If you’ve been following along, it’s not every day I agree with journalists. Me agreeing with bank analysts is also something you won’t see often. However, this week they did something that really made me stop and say, “Yes, that…
Today I want to talk about what Rasheed Wallace taught me about financial markets. For those of you who are not familiar, Rasheed is a former professional basketball player, well known for his passionate, sometimes volatile personality. His signature phrase…
