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Podcast: Pause to Ponder
I am out of the office today; however, there are a number of excellent podcasts from the last week or so that have relevance, philosophical or otherwise, to trading and the capital markets:
Oliver Jones [DOWNLOAD MP3]
The Canadian jazz legend discussed his career trajectory, particularly the fact that even though everyone knew about his gift for music, he wanted to be a ball player. He played live in studio Q and talked about his musical education, Diana Krall and more.
Gordon Ramsay [DOWNLOAD MP3]
The British “Don’t Call Me a Celebrity” chef reveals what it takes to maintain three Michelin [...]
Trading Ideas for Friday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Thursday found 86 winners and 13 losers. Click on the column headers to sort the list below.
The scan is designed to find stocks that are current “in play”; criteria includes price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average volume of 1.5 million shares). The entire list has been ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Please refer to the podcast for background information.
Podcast: Diving into Disk Drives
Yesterday’s podcast provided more examples of the thinking process behind finding trade setups by comparing price action to investor sentiment.
Today we will focus on another use for our daily stock scan list: finding specific industries that might be “in play”. As a bonus, we also included a company that is experiencing ‘news/price divergence’ that might be worth watching.
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While going through Trading Ideas for Thursday, I noticed there was big representation in the computer storage devices industry. We spoke about [...]
Trading Ideas for Thursday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Wednesday found 50 winners and 15 losers. Click on the column headers to sort the list below.
The scan is designed to find stocks that are current “in play”; criteria includes price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average volume of 1.5 million shares). The entire list has been ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Please refer to the podcast for background information.
Podcast: INTC, XSD, XHB, GS, WDC, PCP, FWLT
In this podcast, we continue our series on Using SwingLines and Invivo.RMI Indicators and How Does The Stock Scan Work?
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We feature Intel (INTC), SPDR S&P Semiconductor (XSD), SPDR S&P Homebuilders (XHB) and Goldman Sachs (GS) as examples of stocks that were at the bottom of the list in the recent past. As a bonus, we looked at WDC, PCP and FWLT, stocks that appeared on using our Trading Ideas for Wednesday.
We also discussed the role decision support tools play in the life [...]
Gold: The Overlooked Outlook
This report was commissioned by a public company, but I thought it might be of interest to subscribers.
The Charts
It’s been nearly two months since gold bullion put in a spike top on extreme bullishness. Investor sentiment has deteriorated markedly since then.
One chart that has made the rounds all over the Internet is the apparent head and shoulders pattern seen on the daily chart. Technicians using the classic Edwards and Magee pattern measurement formula would project a downside target in the $740 – $750 area.
The pattern not mentioned is a wedge-like consolidation. So long as [...]
Trading Ideas for Wednesday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Tuesday found 63 winners and 22 losers. Click on the column headers to sort the list below.
The scan is designed to find stocks that are current “in play”; criteria includes price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average of 1.5 million). The entire list has been ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Please refer to the podcast for background information.
Trading Ideas for Tuesday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Monday found 75 winners and 12 losers. Click on the column headers to sort the list below.
The scan is designed to find stocks that are current “in play”; criteria includes price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average of 1.5 million). The entire list has been ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Please refer to the podcast for background information.
Podcast: Sentiment, Rotation & ETF Ranking
In today’s podcast (recorded on May 11), we review our objective sentiment survey, rotation charts and ETF rankings:
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Objective Sentiment Survey
The InVivo Objective Sentiment Survey tracks the number of buy and sell signals amongst the constituent stocks of the S&P 100 and NASDAQ 100 indexes.
Fund Managers: The Unhedgable Risk
A couple of weeks ago, we wrote an article called Hedge Fund Manager: First Shot, Second Chances. This morning, there was a priceless quote in WSJ:
Rebounds by Hedge-Fund Stars Prove ‘It’s a Mulligan Industry’
Wall Street likes to consider itself a strict meritocracy, but hedge-fund managers who fail in ugly ways often convince investors to hand them piles of cash so they can give it another go.
Says Ken Phillips, who runs RCG Capital Partners, a Boulder, Colo.-based firm that invests in hedge funds: “It’s a mulligan industry,” referring to the golf term for a second chance after a poorly [...]
Portfolio Strategy for May 12
This past week saw a strong move up in a number of commodities and the Canadian equity market while the U.S. Dollar weakened relative to a number of world currencies. U.S. equities treaded water while bonds perked up a touch.
All in all, it was another week where the direction of the market was clear as mud to most participants. In times like this, it sure pays to have a diversified investment portfolio that is dynamically re-allocated in response to current market conditions.
Action for Tihs Week
The Strategic Performance and Ex-U.S. model portfolios should be rebalanced [...]
Trading Ideas for Monday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Friday found 30 winners and 22 losers. Click on the column headers to sort the list below.
The scan is designed to find stocks that are current “in play”; criteria includes price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average of 1.5 million). The entire list has been ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Please refer to the podcast for background information.
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