This is a market of stocks, and not just a "stock market".
All of these Indexes, from the Dow Jones Industrial Average to the Russell2000 Small-caps, are made up of components. There are 30 stocks in the Dow and 2000 stocks in the Russell2K,...
I like to keep a few delta neutral trades active in the portfolio at all times (if I can). It's a good diversifier and also benefits from sleepy or sideways markets that tend to not help any of my...
We've been writing about how the momentum is to the upside for the last few weeks, but now prices are testing overhead supply across all the major Nifty indices.
For those new to the exercise, we take a chart of interest and remove the x/y-axes and any other labels that would help identify it. The chart can be any security in...
Last week, the guys published a bullish piece on Chinese internet stocks. Since then, a bunch of them have already taken off and I don't feel like chasing here. However, one...
Looking at Monthly Charts only takes about an hour per month and is one of the most valuable exercises in our process. By focusing on the long-term, we can filter out the noise and identify what's really happening with a stock, index, etc.
Today I want to talk about how important it is to know what's inside the index funds you own. In many cases they can be misleading. Something like the Dollar Index, for example, which is basically 60% Euro, is not exactly the best barometer of the "U....
