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December 2, 2014
Investors across the board are all-in again, universally optimistic about the future prospects for U.S. equities. Advisory sentiment in the Investors Intelligence poll is in the 96th percentile, with a 43% spread between Bulls and Bears. Individual Investor
The Chart of the Day belongs to Express Scripts (NASDAQ:ESRX). I found the stock by sorting the All Time High list for the stocks with the most frequent new highs in the last month then used the Flipchart feature to
This afternoon, CNBC Europe asked Peter Schiff about the effects of low oil prices on the European economy. Peter used the opportunity to explain why the governments of Europe, the United States, and Japan are all playing the same game:
Northern Oil and Gas (NYSE:NOG) is familiar to long-time readers of this blog. I posted about it here, here, here and here. I have been short this stock for some years and my view is that absent sustained high oil
Contrarians must be thinking about the sustainability of the year-end stock rally after six weeks of remarkable gains. The most recent AAII Investor Sentiment Survey discovered that a whopping 52 percent of respondents were Investor Sentiment, far surpassing the long-term
As we enter the home stretch of 2014 I wanted to give an update about my portfolio and holdings in my taxable and ROTH accounts. November has brought about my highest ever portfolio value in both accounts as my total
By now, every trader who watches markets every day is acutely aware of the increasing concentration of massive amounts of volume in the last second of the trading day. Here is 8 years of the last few seconds of the
Looking for growth and value is a winning combination. First off, Growth Investors focus on companies with great earnings growth. And this makes sense since earnings drive prices. But nobody wants to overpay for good growth. Value Investors focus on
Almost 40% of appraisers surveyed from Sept. 15 through Nov. 7 reported experiencing pressure to inflate values, according to Allterra Group LLC, a for-profit appraiser-advocacy firm based in Salisbury, Md. That figure was 37% in the survey for the previous
