The stock market bears have been licking their chops since stocks started to rebound, predicting a second fall and a bigger one this time. Stocks are still holding up pretty well. The current bear market started, like all bear markets do, with our wondering just how far we’d be sent down before the panic became […]

It is believed that small cap stocks lose more during pullbacks because they are smaller and therefore more sensitive to economic downturns. The real reason is simpler than that. It shouldn’t be as difficult and complicated to understand the movement of stock prices as we try to make it. The issue with small caps unsurprisingly […]

While there remains some serious questions out there as to where stocks may be headed during the coming economic recovery, Amazon is going up even more now. Stock selection is a lot more important than the great majority of investors realize, and when the market becomes as embattled as it has been, the stakes go […]

We often look to history to try to see the future, and this especially applies to stocks. History can be helpful, but we want to make sure that we don’t try to replace the present. As we continue to move further and further away from the stock market low that we put in on March […]

Stocks usually go down after being downgraded by analysts, so GM stock gaining 9% after a downgrade seems very strange. These are not normal times though. It’s been no secret that the automotive sector has fallen upon hard times, at least with the stocks in the sector. It is not enough for a company to […]

Scott Minerd of Guggenheim Partners is sounding the alarm. We’re about to open Pandora’s economic box, and the worms we see may set off another round of panic. While stock markets have stabilized from the beating that they took over pandemic fears, and we’re even seeing the outbreak situation start to stabilize as well, not […]

The number of new unemployment claims in the U.S. blew up to 3.28 million, but we all knew that this was coming. This included the stock market which continued upward. It might not seem to make much sense that we could get the worst jobless claim report in history and see the stock market rally […]

While it is too soon to say that the worst is over with the recent panic in the stock market, we’re seeing real signs that the buyers may be ready to really jump in. As bad as the fear has been in the markets over the last 5 weeks, and as out of proportion as […]

Technical analysts at least look at what really matters when looking at stock prices, the actual prices. Even when we’re looking at the right thing, it’s important to use our heads. Among the various ways that we can study the movement of stock prices, studying the actual price trends makes the most sense by far, […]

Wednesday’s trading saw stocks, treasuries, corporate bonds, gold, and oil all get hammered. The only game in town right now is to ride with the bears, not the bulls. No matter how much something has gone down or how quickly it is going down, there has to be someone that holds long positions in it. […]