We’re now past the 90% mark of S&P 500 companies reporting this earnings season. 

It has been a monster earnings season - one for the record books.

There has been a parade of powerful upside surprises, and earnings estimates by...

I've gotten a lot of feedback from yesterday's note. Turns out, there's a lot of Steve Poltz fans amongst you. I had no idea! If you missed yesterday's note, you can read it ...

There weren't any S&P 500 earnings reactions on Monday, but one of the world's largest Gold mining stocks had a reaction that caught our attention.

When it comes to mining stocks, the math is simple - rising commodity prices plus flat costs...

It’s in our nature to scan for risks.

On the African plains, the man who noticed the rustling in the bushes and got his family to safety was the one whose bloodline survived.

Over thousands of...

Amazon is at an interesting juncture. On one hand, the big projection target is higher.  For AMZN to go another 27% higher to tag that target, in this environment seems pretty unlikely.  Yet, on the other hand, we have a correction ongoing...

It's been years since I blogged about Altria. (MO) To this day, really don't know what they do ... I was shown the chart and was asked how to come up w/ targets when a security has gone parabolic.  MO just happened to be the stock. Here's the...

Global markets are on the move—and for the first time in years, investors are giving international stocks a second look.

The MSCI EAFE fund—which tracks companies outside the Americas—has finally broken...

In trading, we prize rational, mechanical thinking. We try to minimize emotion wherever possible — following systems and rules with robotic discipline to reduce errors and maximize returns.

That works for some.

But is it the ideal?

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