Month: June 2021

The Hourly View for KMX At the moment, KMX (Get Ratings)’s price is up $0.48 (0.38%) from the hour prior. It’s been a feast for bulls operating on an hourly timeframe, as KMX has now gone up 4 of the past 5 hours. Regarding the trend, note that the strongest trend exists on the 50

The Hourly View for AMT At the moment, AMT (Get Ratings)’s price is up $0.77 (0.29%) from the hour prior. This move is a reversal from the hour prior, which saw price move down. If you’re a trend trader, consider that the strongest clear trend on the hourly chart exists on the 20 hour timeframe.

The Hourly View for RSG Currently, RSG (Get Ratings)’s price is down $-0.12 (-0.11%) from the hour prior. This move is a reversal from the hour prior, which saw price move up. If you’re a trend trader, consider that the strongest clear trend on the hourly chart exists on the 100 hour timeframe. The moving

The Hourly View for SC At the time of this writing, SC (Get Ratings)’s price is down $-0.13 (-0.35%) from the hour prior. It’s been a feast for bears operating on an hourly timeframe, as SC has now gone down 4 of the past 5 hours. As for the trend on the hourly timeframe, we

The Hourly View for CMS At the time of this writing, CMS (Get Ratings)’s price is up $0.16 (0.27%) from the hour prior. It’s been a feast for bulls operating on an hourly timeframe, as CMS has now gone up 4 of the past 5 hours. If you’re a trend trader, consider that the strongest

The Hourly View for UPS Currently, UPS (Get Ratings)’s price is up $1.06 (0.52%) from the hour prior. UPS has seen its price go up 5 out of the past 5 hours, thus creating some compelling opportunities for bulls. Regarding the trend, note that the strongest trend exists on the 100 hour timeframe. Regarding moving

It’s a bit of inside baseball in the money management world, but some advisors lean toward using index funds for their clients and some prefer exchange-traded funds (ETFs). We use ETFs at MarketRiders, but we use ETFs that act and work like index funds. These are the widely held ETFs that track the big indexes that make

It has been a very, very cold few months, particularly in New England. Boston is buried in snow. Niagara Falls has frozen over. Even the South is getting hit with ice. What does this have to do with retirement investing? Everything. The thing is, despite the extreme cold in some parts of the country, we’re

A popular recent article in the New York Times suggested that Americans who aren’t saving enough for retirement can blame Wall Street’s high fees on investment products for their shortfall. We can’t dismiss our culpability entirely. The current national savings rate posted by the Federal Reserve hovers around 5%, not nearly enough to fund our

Most of us are holding too much cash in our portfolios and not enough stocks, but the worst offenders of all are the youngest investors. This means you, millennials. A 2014 UBS survey reports that the public continues to avoid the stock market, but that the youngest investors are even more conservative than the older

This is just not normal.  Nearly 90% of the industrialized world economy is presently anchored by zero rates, and half of all government bonds in the world today yield less than 1%. Wow. The race into risky assets continues, but those assets are bid up and richly priced. Evans Ambrose-Pritchard wrote, “Stephen King from HSBC

Updated rankings are out. Go to Best ETFs 2017: Long-term Bonds. In this category the iShares ETF family lands in the top spot for cost efficiency, with its 7-10 Year Treasury Bond fund (IEF), and in the lead for assets, with iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond (LQD). Long bonds offer some prospect of real

A lot of financial advisors like to talk about “insurance” for their clients’ investments. Often, however, this takes the unlikely form of highly risky counter-investments. For instance, an advisor might choose a broad selection of blue-chip stocks. They pay a nice dividend and, assuming they are not too tightly concentrated, are pretty safe from causing a

Many value investors underperformed as the market soared over the past several years, but the tables may soon turn for quality, large-cap, liquid stocks, Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Research analysts said this week. “These days, value investing has been replaced by a preference for ‘growth at any price. But over the very long

Steven A. Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management has made a big bet on Square, the payments processing startup created by Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey. The over $11 billion family office for Cohen’s fortune disclosed on Friday it now owns nearly 6.7 million Square shares, or 5.4% of the company’s outstanding stock. Most of Point72’s investment in

The volatility of the past 2 weeks has Goldman Sachs, and many others, selling stocks. Sam Miklosko is on the other side of that trade. In order to execute a simple strategy of buying low and selling high, you have to buy when prices are low. That means that when the bears come out, it’s