Some investors are becoming concerned about the fact that while major stock market indices are nearing all-time records, the volume of shares traded is going down. The significance of trading volume is one that a lot of technical analysts struggle to really understand, or at least gain a reasonable understanding of them. There are some […]

Many people think of IPOs as an easy opportunity to make a lot of money. The institutions do get greased, but individuals need to be very careful trading them. Day 1 of Pinterest’s initial public offering at least held its ground during its first day trading its stock publicly, but that’s about all we could […]

While some observers have been recommending going long gold recently, the play was really dependent on its not breaking support. It has, and is now at a crossroads. Gold tends to do pretty well when the economy is slowing down, and this has prompted some analysts to recommend taking long positions in gold, to look […]

Ray Dalio, the owner of the world’s largest hedge fund, is a capitalist if there ever was one. When he says that capitalism is broken and is in need of a fix, that may say something. Ray Dalio isn’t just an expert on macroeconomics, he made his fortune directly from this knowledge, all $18.4 billion […]

2019 has started out pretty bullish for the overall stock market, but with many health care stocks, it’s been a year to forget so far. Things don’t look like they are changing. United Health Care serves as a good example of how health care stocks are starting to really get swatted by the bears out […]

Trading in options is far from the beaten path of your typical investor, especially selling them. Some investors do use this strategy though, but they can be plenty tricky. The world of options trading is a complex one to say the least, about as far as you can get from your normal buy and hold […]

BlackRock’s earnings come in a little short of expectations, but the ETF market that they dominate is still red hot. The company is also seeing a real potential for further market gains. It is earnings season again, and when we are looking at the earnings of the world’s largest fund company, or money manager of […]

Health care reform is a big priority for Democratic senator and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders. The biggest obstacle is how this would be paid for, but he has some ideas. It’s not hard to make a good case for the U.S. health care system needing some serious remediation, and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is […]

Democrats and Republicans traditionally disagree on matters of taxation, with Republicans preferring less of it and Democrats more. This divide may be bigger than ever now. One of the governing principles of modern governments is that those who earn more must pay more, not just in terms of nominal amounts but also pay a higher […]

With our entering a period of at least global economic slowdown, we need to be aware of the potential for political dissent, and a lot of this anger is directed at the banking sector. We don’t have to go back very far in time to see how economic slowdowns can rile up a lot of […]