Category: Investing

The death cross has happened right before some of the biggest market crashes in recent history. However, it hasn’t been bearish over the long run.

My indicator has predicted nearly every major move in the stock market. And it isn’t calling for a bear market until 2022.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s comments should scare investors. The current state of the stock market should also scare investors.

The S&P 500 Index, the stock market‘s most-tracked index, is set to form a “death cross.” That’s an extremely bearish indicator.

There is a critical concept that too many investors forget when they jump into the fray with their money. When it comes to uncovering the best companies, cash is still king. The idea can be easily overlooked when it comes to flashy new products and big promises for the future, but the power of cash […]

Constantly watching how your stocks are doing doesn’t make you a better investor. It just stresses you out and wastes your time.

Net income margins of the companies in the S&P 500 Index reached a record high last quarter. And that sets up the next bear market.

Investors are still picking up the pieces from last month’s sell-off. Yet with all this despair, could a “Santa Claus rally” be right around the corner?

There are a lot of scary headlines out there right now. But you’ll never get rich if you go to cash — and you’ll never get rich by selling too early.

I believe the long-awaited bear market started in October. That’s consistent with my forecast for a recession in early 2019.

Last week I told you about cash. I believe it is the single most important concept in investing. Without cash, you’re just talking.

October’s wild ride may be just what the stock market needed. That’s because extremes are short-lived, and ultimately make way for new rallies.

Many investors saw the November bounce and thought the worst was behind us. But history shows strong up moves are most common in bear markets.

According to market researchers, consumer staples was one of the only sectors to survive October’s vicious sell-off with a net positive gain.

The amount of fear in the market right now has been exaggerated by the media. That’s why during this market dip there’s not as big of a rise in the VIX.

You may not believe me, but corporate earnings are phenomenal. The market just isn’t reflecting that at the moment. Here’s why that could change real soon…

If the next bear market is something that keeps you up at night, there’s just one indicator in the S&P 500 you need to watch — the death cross.

Spotting the end of the bear market is rewarding. The S&P 500 Index jumped more than 26% in the month after the last bear market ended.

October 2018 has been a historically bad month for stocks. But despite this sell-off, I’m not convinced that we’re headed for another 2008 anytime soon.

October has been a rough month. But the stock market is set to enter its own Tom Brady-like comeback mode, and you don’t want to miss it.

The stock prices of the group reflected hopes for the new markets. And a bubble developed. But the bubble reached irrational peaks. All bubbles do.

This indicator gave sell signals before bear markets in 2000 and 2008. It’s one of the few indicators that warned of the October 1987 market crash.

From high to low, the S&P 500 Index dropped about 7.8%. Of course, we don’t know if the bear market started yet. But we do know the decline isn’t over.

Most stocks and indexes move in line with the S&P 500 Index. But some show fear or greed earlier or later than the S&P 500.

He brought tariffs up again, asking me how tariffs would have an impact on my investment strategies. My initial reaction somewhat surprised even me.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the dot-com bubble was a rat race to be the next major tech company. With that said, today is also a historic moment.

A much-needed correction is out of the way, I don’t see volatility being an issue in October. Don’t want to sell with the momentum brewing in the market.

On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve raised short-term interest rates by a quarter point and signaled yet another quarter-point hike before the end of the year. Notably, this is the first time the Fed funds rate — currently at 2.00% to 2.25% — has risen above the rate of inflation. The Fed’s preferred metric for inflation […]

The lights from the Las Vegas Strip are flashing outside my hotel window, and it’s well after midnight, but my mind is abuzz with new ideas. I just spent that past three days with the various Banyan Hill editors and more than five hundred of our subscribers. We discussed not only the outlook for the […]

Today I want to talk about an 18.5-year market cycle I track that tells me we’re headed toward some major moves for the stock market.

A bear market doesn’t just happen. It hints at its arrival for weeks or months. Alert investors see the bull market dying before their eyes.

Many of you have asked why I’ve been bullish all year despite dire warnings from market watchers. Well, it all comes down to a chart that I look at daily.

Last week, I had a flashback moment. I flashed back to October 3, 2000. To most of you, that date probably means nothing, but let me explain.

This is a chart I’ll keep a close eye on in the coming weeks, as it could be giving us an early warning to a looming bear market.

Apple is doomed. And 2018 is the year where I believe you’ll start to see that this once-great American company has peaked and is ready to decline.

Everyone is looking for a reason as to why the broad stock market indexes plunged this week. The actual reason is pretty simple.

If the history of market reactions to Amazon has taught me anything, it’s that now is a great time to buy stocks in the health care sector.

Netflix is spending a ton of money on its own content to add new subscribers — and the reason why may be what kills its rally.

The January Effect is what investors call the typical outperformance of small-cap stocks in January. This year is set to be the opposite case.

It’s been more than 19 months since the last 5% dip in the S&P 500 Index. This is just the sixth time we’ve gone more than a year without a 5% correction.

One of the more popular opinions is that stocks are overbought. The problem is that few experts tell us what overbought means.

Europe’s economy is on a tear. We’ve certainly seen it in our Total Wealth Insider portfolio, where one of our European banking stocks is up nearly 40%.

With one of the hottest sectors in recent years failing to keep pace with the broader markets, it gives us a significant buying opportunity — here’s why.

As this ratio moves lower, it starts to tell us what we can expect from the market — and right now, it’s telling us to expect a pullback.

Tax reform will affect not just taxes but also companies’ earnings. And analysts have been scrambling to increase their earnings estimates.

We are in unprecedented times. Whether we like it or not, cash is going away. And this has created an excellent opportunity for investors…

There’s a reason the Super Bowl indicator works. And since it does work, that means we can even use the stock market to predict the Super Bowl.

Brian Christopher is a modest person, so he won’t tell you all this himself … but he has the resume every value investor needs.

The way this industry as a whole has reacted to recent news has convinced me it is here to stay, and if you don’t have exposure to it yet — now is the time.

This is just the seventh time this rare signal has happened since 2002. And it’s saying the odds of a market sell-off just increased.

A dark horse has entered the competition, one that will shake up the current hierarchy of online streaming and offer a solid investment choice in the process.

Over the past couple of years, the outlook on global growth has been a roller coaster. But now production is nearing an all-time high.

After a strong gain in 2017, many investors are worried about 2018. One concern is that the good times can’t last forever.

I’m not pulling out my crystal ball today. I’ve got something even better — a 100-year-old calendar will do better than throwing out a best guess for 2018.