Everyone has been talking about the higher than expected jobs number that came out on Friday. There were 255,000 jobs added in July. Besides this, companies hired on another 18,000 more workers in the months of May and June than earlier reports had shown. Predictably...
It's true that global and especially U.S. stock markets have been on a tear lately, notching new highs in the last few weeks. This rosy stock trading has been happening against an increasingly gloomy economic and geopolitical backdrop though. When you take off those rose...
Last week we looked at the industries and some specific companies that would benefit from a Trump November election victory. In the interest of fairness and impartiality (and to provide you with still more stock trading ideas), this week we share the same company beneficiary information...
If you believe that the recent shocking Brexit leave vote referendum results and yearlong groundswell of support for Trump across the country are harbingers of an imminent Republican Presidential election win this November, then you may care to place some trades on the results. There...
Over the last few years, some investors and traders have written off gold mining company stocks. As gold pulled back, so too did the prices of the securities of these mining outfits, some of them severely. The tables may be about to finally turn for...
There is a stock trading strategy that combines the often at odds fundamental and technical analyses into a single effective strategy. This involves trading stocks according to the schedule of the security's ex-dividend date. Utilizing this particular strategy, you are able to optimize your overall...
When you are trading stocks, you have to protect yourself against unknown factors that can affect the stock price. Something that is hard to predict but which can have devastating effects on your stocks is called a Black Swan Event. These unknown occurrences are something that...
What Exactly is Swing Trading? Swing trading is a compromise between standard long term trend trading and your typical day trading. If you are trend trading, you are most interested in various fundamental trends for an individual stock or an index that last for longer amounts of...
When you are deciding what type of trading you will practice, you have to start with a first consideration. Will you be a discretionary trader or a system trader? Here we look at what the differences are between the two types and what advantages system trading...
Arbitrage is a term that you hear in stock trading movies like Wall Street. It is also an investing technique that has made some investors phenomenally successful over the years. Value investor creator Benjamin Graham used it as one of his investment strategies and his protegee legendary...