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. […]

Up until this week, the Dow has never lost 1200 points in a single day. We’ve done this three times this week, including hitting the new record on Thursday where we lost 10%. We use a 20% decline to define a bear market, although this is just an arbitrary number and we could have chosen […]

As mired as stock markets are in uncertainty during these times, and as much as they have fallen, things could be a whole lot worse if not for all the buying of these dips. With stocks moving so much off of the all-time highs we were at not so long ago, due to the fears […]

With the stock market falling in leaps and bounds every day this week, many investors are looking for a better place to park their money. There are several ways to do this. So many of us invest without a plan, and may not even think that one is needed, or even useful. They just keep […]