This week I’m in Disney World with the family, our first proper vacation all together in years. As such, I’m off the grid and away from computers of any kind (I’m trying to stay married, you guys). But while I’m gone, I’ve left you some stuff to catch up on… These were the biggest posts…
The Best of TRB 2014 – Investing and Psychology
This week I’m in Disney World with the family, our first proper vacation all together in years. As such, I’m off the grid and away from computers of any kind (I’m trying to stay married, you guys). But while I’m gone, I’ve left you some stuff to catch up on… These were the biggest posts…
The Best of TRB 2014 – Markets
This week I’m in Disney World with the family, our first proper vacation all together in years. As such, I’m off the grid and away from computers of any kind (I’m trying to stay married, you guys). But while I’m gone, I’ve left you some stuff to catch up on… These were the biggest posts…
Chart o’ the Day: Inverse Breakout
Via Chris Kimble – it’s an upside breakout for inverse indices: (Click to Embiggen!)
A funny thing happened on the way to Utopia…
Below is the Tesla Motors (TSLA) daily chart going back to the beginning of the year. You’ll see a prominent price and volume spike on the very day Morgan Stanley’s analysts told us of their electric battery-driven Utopian vision for the future… For those keeping score, the Tesla Utopian Society call occurred about 30 percent…
361 Capital Weekly Research Briefing
361 Capital portfolio manager, Blaine Rollins, CFA, previously manager of the Janus Fund, writes a weekly update looking back on major moves, macro-trends and economic data points. The 361 Capital Weekly Research Briefing summarizes the latest market news along with some interesting facts and a touch of humor. 361 Capital is a provider of alternative…
The first down-quarter for earnings since 2012?
FactSet Research has been chronicling the earnings estimate slashfest of the first quarter better than any other research outlet. To recap, at the end of 2013, the consensus earnings per share estimate for Q1 2014 was something like 4% growth year-over-year. As the quarter wore on (and the weather got worse), these estimates were gradually…
Hogs Get Slaughtered
As the biggest winning stocks and sectors of the last few years turn on their owners and bleed them with drawdowns of between 20 and 50 percent, it has been more than fitting for market participants to invoke that most famous of trader sayings this spring: “Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered.”…
Jeffrey Kleintop: The Weakest Earnings Cycle in 55 Years
My friend Jeffrey Kleintop, Chief Market Strategist at LPL Financial, is out with a new note this morning that’s probably going to grab a lot of people’s attention. He points out that, from the earnings peak of Q2 2007 through the first quarter of this year, we’re seeing the weakest recovery for corporate earnings in…
Clips From Today’s Halftime Report
