Respect the bullish construct of the NYSE Composite

Over the past couple of weeks I have seen a notable uptick in bearishness among investors. Looking at the current bullish construct of the NYSE Composite  however, a broadly diversified basket of stocks, as well as the favorable seasonal patterns it’s difficult for me to be bearish stocks for the coming couple of months or […]

An Alternate Way to Leverage Your Stock

Options are a favorite tool for investors to gain leverage yet most people don’t understand the complexity of those instruments. An alternate way to gain leverage on a specific sector/group of stocks is to find stocks with lower absolute prices, yet with plenty of volume and transparency. Watch the video HERE

Stocks are running in circles

US stocks fell last week with the S&P 500 closing lower by more than 2% as investors used the quarter-end “excuse” to take profits in the few things that worked higher in the first three months of the year. In the bigger sense, US equities continue to pave a path of maximum frustration for directional […]

Serge is looking to buy the dip in the Russell 2000

Wednesday was an ugly day for stocks, as a real risk-off day smashed many parts of the market. We can blame the damage on quarter-end selling, which in turn led to margin calls and forced selling … but the fact is that U.S. equities remain in a choppy environment. As such, the path of maximum […]

Lessons from the Biotechnology pop and drop

They say that from false moves come fast moves. Well, I would like to add that from too-steep moves come ‘very fast’ moves. Such has been the case with the biotechnology sector this week when after an ultra-sharp rally last week gravity began to kick in and led to a sharp mean-reversion move lower. But […]

FireEye Inc: FEYE Stock Could Ignite Soon

Shares of cyber security firm FireEye Inc (NYSE:FEYE) have spent most of the past month or so consolidating their early February rally and increasingly look ready to continue this rally sooner rather than later. That’s good news for active investors and traders, who can target a well-defined area of resistance that FEYE must overcome to start its […]

Why it’s so difficult to stay the trend

Staying in an up-trending stock, index or ETF seems like a simple task to the notive trader yet the more experienced market participants know how difficult it can be. By overtrading and worse, trading against the trend we put ourselves in weak position and execute low probability trades. Here is a straightforward way to stay […]

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