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Trading Ideas for Friday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Thursday found 20 winners and 36 losers. Click on the column headers below to sort the entire list.
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.
Trading Ideas for Thursday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Wednesday found 27 winners and 115 losers. Click on the column headers below to sort the list of winners.
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.
Trading Ideas for Wednesday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Tuesday found 25 winners and 46 losers. Click on the column headers below to sort the entire list.
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: Sentiment, Spuds and Shoppers
In the preamble, we discussed the price of a staple food that is NOT subject to speculative trading in the futures market: the lowly spud. 2008 happens to be the United Nations International Year of the Potato. For more, check out the June 13th podcast of The Current at CBC (scroll down to Part 2).
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Other articles mentioned were:
Suburbs a Mile Too Far for Some
Todd Zimmerman, a housing consultant and an early advocate of pedestrian-friendly community planning known as New [...]
Trading Ideas for Tuesday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Monday found 23 winners and 27 losers. Click on the column headers below to sort the entire list.
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.
Portfolio Strategy for June 16
This week featured downside price action in most asset classes as inflation fears became the primary driver of selling in bonds and stocks. Looking at the weekly charts of the constituents of the Strategic Performance Portfolio, it is interesting to note that even as bonds fell, the upward movement in commodities (GSG) and Swiss (FXF) actually stalled.
From an investor sentiment point of view, this might signal a turning point because if this turns out to be a tradeable top in commodities and a tradeable bottom in the Dollar, price action for stocks and bonds may surprise [...]
Trading Ideas for Friday
Heads up:
Vanguard announces share split for three exchange-traded funds
Vanguard announced today a two-for-one split of shares of Vanguard® Total Stock Market ETF (VTI), Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF (VWO), and Vanguard Extended Market ETF (VXF). The conventional shares of the funds are not affected by this split.
The stock scan conducted after the close on Thursday found 12 winners and 143 losers. Click on the column headers to sort the list of winners 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 [...]
High Oil Prices Affecting Casinos and CAKE?
It was not surprising to see that our daily stock scan found 165 losers and only 9 winners after yesterday’s price action.
After the close, the Fast Money traders discussed the effects of high oil prices on casino stocks; they also interviewed the CEO of The Cheesecake Factory (CAKE). These companies were on Thursday’s list of losers. Let’s take a look at WYNN, LVS, MGM, IGT and CAKE.
Will Consumers Eat CAKE?
High food costs and a battered consumer have dragged down shares of Cheesecake Factory 25% this year. In May Goldman Sachs downgraded the casual dining restaurant [...]
Trading Ideas for Thursday
Another one to add to the Hedge Fund Managers: First Shot, Second Chances list:
Peloton investment chief plans new fund
“Since the folding of Peloton in late February, I have been spending my time overseeing the orderly liquidation of the Peloton Multi-Strategy Fund and returning as much capital as possible to investors,” Mr Grant said. “At the same time I’ve known all the guys on the team I built for a long time. They want to stay with me and it would seem a shame not to give it our best shot to make that happen. I will join them [...]
A Look at the Major Drugs Industry
Bob Pisani does a good job reporting from the NYSE. He helps viewers get a feel of what the traders on the floor think and feel about the markets and filed an interesting report today about something we talked about in early April: the underperformance of the healthcare sector versus broad markets.
Pharmaceuticals Are Not Safe, Defensive Plays
Big pharmaceutical stocks like Merck (MRK), Pfizer (PFE), Sanofi (SNY), and Bristol Meyers (BMY) hit new lows, as the world has now discovered that these are no longer safe, defensive plays. Everyone talking about Pfizer’s huge 7.1 percent dividend yield, which gets [...]
Trading Ideas for Wednesday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Tuesday found 10 winners and 104 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.
A Look at the Utilities Sector
We noted strength in utilities in yesterday’s podcast, having detected it with our sector rotation charts. Utilities have been quietly outperforming the S&P 500 index.
There were three utility companies in Trading Ideas for Tuesday. Let’s look at WMB, PEG and CEG.
Utilities SPDR (XLU)
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