Category: Stocks

When the stock market stages a once-in-a-decade drop like we saw in December, it challenges everyone’s beliefs.

With the recent market weakness, these investments now offer greater upside than they did just a few weeks ago.

Ray Dalio is a great investor. His opinion is worth listening to. Right now, he believes we face tough times.

As I said on Fox Business, we are in a bear market. And we’ve been in a bear market since the market’s peak in early October.

Could the S&P 500, after what I’ve categorized to my subscribers as a “Wall Street panic” these last three months, be setting us once again for a repeat performance? I think there’s a strong likelihood.

Here we are, exactly 12 months after my spot-on prediction, and I go back to my trusty 100-year-old calendar to see what 2019 has in store.

This chart shows the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s 1,000-point gain on the day after Christmas included a rare buy signal.

A bear market can delay retirement plans. It can even lower your income for life. The consequences are so dire, it’s worth considering a downside target.

As the Fed winds up its rate-raising policy, we’ll see a slow rotation into these kinds of stocks. They’re out of favor and about as cheap as they come.

This one simple chart will put in perspective the current volatile market and tell you what to expect in 2019 and beyond.

Stock prices have been dropping since October. Yet they can still drop more. That’s because, even after double-digit declines, stocks remain overvalued.

As investors suffer through the worst December since the Great Depression, they need a Santa Claus rally now more than ever.

This chart highlights the consistency the Santa Claus rally has seen. That helps explain why it’s a phenomenon tracked heavily in the markets.

Bull markets condition individuals to buy dips. Uptrends reward buyers for that behavior. But in a bear market, dip buyers rapidly face large losses.

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.

Many investors will worry that 2017’s gains won’t last and 2018 will deliver a loss. Data says those worries are misplaced.

Past performance isn’t a guide to the future. But it’s likely companies that aggressively used tax shelters in the past will find new ones in the future.

There are a few ways you could have beaten the bull market this year…

Gun control has been a hot topic in politics. And the fear of restrictions on guns has been very profitable for gun manufacturers.

I took plenty of heat back in June when I said the Amazon-Whole Foods merger “would be a surprising setback for the internet giant.” Looks like I was right.

The new tax plan promises to breathe fresh life into a sector that most investors have already written off as dead.

After a bear market, many investors are late to reinvest. But, slowly, the bull market proves it’s real … often fueling a large stock market rally.

We are at a point in the market right now where the Dogs of the Dow will outperform over the next year as they go on their comeback rally.

More countries are relying on solar energy to meet their electricity needs and now a new technology has emerged that can change the industry.

While the financial media has the world convinced that retail is officially dead, big money has found a new use for the retail sector.

Stocks have been plunging on bad earnings reports. It makes sense to see a stock go down, but the magnitude of the plunges is worse than normal.

Friday is a big day for the stock market. That’s when we see the monthly employment report. That report almost always creates volatility.

You would think AT&T would have learned its lessons by now. But once again, we find a tech company clinging to the status quo.

Skeptics argue that the bull market is built on a pile of sand. But My Peak Velocity indicator shows this is a broad-based bull market that should keep climbing.

Among the bears’ most interesting arguments is that stocks are overvalued. But with interest rates where they are, stocks are deeply undervalued.

There are two kinds of stocks: those with value, and those that are value traps. What’s the difference? The epic debacle of one hedge fund offers clues.

Government isn’t the only thing that can destroy value. Private enterprise can do that perfectly well too.

If you are not worried about a market correction, I’m going to show you yet another reason why you need to start preparing now.

This just happens to be the highest level of bullishness among small, regular, everyday, Main Street investors ever recorded.

In an average year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 produce half of their gains in this three-month period.

The Volatility Index typically moves in the opposite direction of the market. This is because when the market is falling, people buy options to hedge.

We should expect a big price move soon. And for now, I’m switching camps. I’m a bull, at least until this indicator reverses again.

Bull markets end when we run out of buyers. Buyers look like they’ve had enough.

Small caps always lead the market, both up and down. For now, the trend is up. When the decline starts, it will be important to sell.

This is one of the most followed and studied market indicators out there. And right now, it states we are still comfortably in a bull market.

Investors aren’t rewarding companies for beating estimates. And this anomaly, which hasn’t occurred since 2011, is a sign that a correction is looming.

A bull market can only continue when most stocks are moving up. When too many stocks are declining, the bull market ends.

You may not know who Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and DJ Khaled are. But they’re important to know because there was a study about how pop music relates to the stock market.

We’re enjoying the third-longest bull market in history … but the returns of the current bull market have been a little disappointing to many investors.

The semiconductor sector recently showed a bearish signal — and this subsector has actually been leading the technology sector as a whole this year.

Earnings forecasts are too high or too low about 90% of the time. And once again, analysts are well off the mark.

Wall Street isn’t paying much attention to this key data, and that’s going to cause problems all too soon for investors…

The head-and-shoulders pattern has broken down, but the financial sector itself is now range-bound, and that can be just as important.

After a brief dip in the wake of Goldman Sachs’ highly publicized research note, Tesla’s stock is still marching higher … irrationally so.

Dow Theory is a simple way to define the stock market’s trend. However, believing this theory could be an expensive mistake.

I’ll show you today how we could’ve seen the sell-off in the tech sector coming, and why more weakness is to be expected in the tech sector.

Facebook, Apple and Amazon, Netflix, and Google (FANG) are the undisputed heavyweights of the Internet economy. However, these five stocks don’t control the broad market.

Every day, the stock market moves. And every night, articles appear explaining the move. But in the long run, only one thing moves the stock market.

The pattern I stumbled on is a classic head-and-shoulders pattern. In this case, it is calling for a sharp decline — and soon.

There’s still no shortage of bad news, but the S&P 500 Index has recovered. Does this mean the bears were wrong? Some testing shows that they probably were.

Right now, small-cap stocks are performing worse than large-cap stocks, which is a sign of weakness in the broad market.

In 2016, a technical signal told me the stock market was going to keep rallying — and it did. Now that same signal is flashing the rally sign again.

Many traders say that unless the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 20%, we aren’t in a bear market. That’s a little too simple.

Fundamentals change slowly. That’s why the stock market is little changed most days. But in the long run, those boring days add up to big gains.

This chart shows that the individual stocks are following the trends of the major market indexes. This tells us that more new highs lie ahead.

We could be enjoying a bull market that might last until 2028, and over the next 11 years, the Dow could reach 60,000. It won’t go straight up, though.

It’s a simple market timing rule — when the Federal Reserve raises rates three times, stocks fall. Now it’s time for the stumble … or is it?

On Tuesday, the Dow snapped its longest losing streak since 2011. It’s important to dive into the data and see what the losing streak really means.

Researchers at the Cleveland branch of the Federal Reserve have found that the “head and shoulders” pattern can be traded profitably.

Last week marked the eighth anniversary of one of our country’s longest bull markets. Since 1940, only one other bull market has lasted longer.

When the Federal Reserve raises rates, market pundits like to talk about the sell-off they expect to see. But will a stumble really happen?

You should probably forget everything you think you know about volatility. That means you’ll bring an open mind to the current market situation.

When it comes to investing, we can dub March the “March Money Machine.” I know it’s not as catchy as March Madness, but here’s my point…

It seems safe to say the broad stock market is overbought. But average investors should look at where stocks are now relative to the long term.

CFRA recently published a report showing that if both January and February are up, we tend to see a very strong stock market for the next 10 months.

For decades, Wall Street was able to charge huge fees to clients. But now, passive investing gives people a chance to invest cheaply in the stock market.

Market analysts often misinterpret the data they’re reading. That’s what seems to be happening in small-cap stocks, or stocks of smaller companies.

The ideas driving the Russell 2000 Index’s advance are similar to the ones driving larger-cap stocks — with one major exception.

During the dot-com boom, IPOs regularly shot to triple-digit gains in their first day of trading. Now most fall dismally flat. But millennials’ interest in Snap could break this IPO rut.

Dow 20,000 was something to be excited about. But at some point that excitement will temper … and the stock market’s expectations will temper as well.

It’s one thing to make money in a bull market for tech stocks, but a good trader can find opportunities in even the most hated market sectors.

Getting into high-flying stocks might feel too risky for some of you. However, that doesn’t mean it’s too late to get in on the IoT rocket ship.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is no longer just a buzzword in tech circles. It is a tech revolution that researchers predict will top $373 billion in 2020.

Markets rarely perform as everyone expects them to do. I believe we’re in for an amazing roller coaster ride in 2017, and if you like trades that deliver quickly, you’ll want to be a part of it.

Take a look at the outperformance on the day these companies’ CEOs stopped by to see Trump.

The millennial generation is the largest in U.S. history. But due to modern technology, millennials are a global movement. India, China, France, etc. … It’s all-encompassing. And they’re all spending.

The IoT is becoming the Internet of Everything. Eventually, every single thing you can imagine will be connected, resulting in an explosion of data and massive investment opportunities.

The potential benefit to human lives is going to be huge, as Big Data companies step forward to implement the Internet of Things in the health care sector.

Most millennials don’t see robots as the world-destroying nightmares shown in movies, and this has made them a generation eager to adopt this new tech boom.

Clinton and Trump have promised massive infrastructure spending. While bridges and roads are the center of attention, rolling blackouts indicate that the power grid could use some work too.

Five years ago, Microsoft was a laughingstock. Apple products were selling like hotcakes, and Bing was … well, Bing. But the LinkedIn acquisition marked the beginning of a new era.

Through the use of Big Data, doctors will be able to develop more effective treatments and improve efficiency, which will save lives and cut costs…

It’s easy for companies to manipulate earnings, but sales are a different matter. For Apple, no amount of illusion can hide the fact that sales are in steep decline.

Those with information and an understanding of an idea’s potential bet big. And one big bettor just plunked down $32 billion in an Internet of Things company.

Rates are headed higher and earnings are headed lower stateside. And yet, dividends are not only unfazed, but recommended on Wall Street. Something’s rotten, and it’s time for investors to look abroad for better yield opportunities.

Love him or hate him, the fact is that Donald Trump has a real shot at the presidency. And it could impact the stock market in a big way…