Joshua M Brown

Bad Breadth

Here’s the thing – breadth is sometimes important and sometimes not. You can have a negative divergence, where the S&P 500 rallies toward a new high but the amount of stocks rallying with it lags or “does not confirm”. And then you can watch as the divergence resolves to the upside and all the people pointing…

Aggressive financial salespeople and test scores

Just reading this column from John Henschen at ThinkAdvisor and had a little flashback to my days on the brokerage side. What he’s saying here – about brokers who just barely pass their Series 7’s being more successful than those who ace the exam – is absolutely true, from what I can remember. Today, FINRA…

Don’t Sleep on Gen X

Gen Xers are joining younger Boomers as the highest-earning members of the workforce. Their financial assets will grow to $22 trillion by 2030