Joseph Hargett
Joseph HargettEditor, Great Stuff
Joseph Hargett is the editor of Great Stuff, a daily Banyan Hill e-zine that keeps you informed on the hottest trends on Wall Street, provides you with the key information to make you filthy rich (*your results may vary) and inspires the best in dinner-table conversation. Great Stuff is finance with an edge.
Joseph joined the Banyan Hill team in 2016. Hailing from the Greater Cincinnati, Ohio, area, Joseph has spent more than a decade specializing in stock market analysis and stock and options trading strategies. Prior to joining Banyan Hill, Joseph cut his teeth in the research department of a well-respected options-based newsletter and was a regular contributor at both Forbes and InvestorPlace. He has worked as an analyst for the small-cap and biotech sectors at Cabot Heritage Corp. in Boston, Massachusetts. Joseph has been regularly quoted in a plethora of media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Money Show Digest, Reuters, USA Today, MarketWatch and Sentiment Magazine.
Joseph Hargett,
Editor, Great Stuff
Joseph's Articles
Jobs Surprise; Tech Teams Up; The Truth Hertz June 5, 2020 Great Stuff
- Friday Four Play: The “Pedal to the Metal” Edition I’ve been trading all night; my hands are wet on the keys. There’s a voice in my head that drives my feels. It’s the market callin’, says “I need you here.” And it’s half past four, and I’m shifting gears. We don’t need no letter at […]
The Future Is Now: Nasdaq Necks New Highs June 4, 2020 Great Stuff
- Why the Nasdaq? Something astounding happened today, dear reader. The Nasdaq Composite just broke out to fresh all-time highs. You’re probably questioning why any part of the market is hitting all-time highs when weekly jobless claims and total unemployment figures still come in worse than expected. Or, for that matter, why stocks are rallying at […]
Opportunities Abound; Warner Music IPO, Zoom Will Grow, CrowdStrike Now! June 3, 2020 Great Stuff
- The End Is Near Wall Street began the day with a friendly voice, a companion unobtrusive … well, at least as unobtrusive as any companion can be right now. The ADP private payroll figures arrived today, and there’s really only one way to describe them: “obviously an awful number, but not as catastrophic as expected.” […]
Canopy’s Cash Crash; Cyber Contract; Costco Cleans Up May 29, 2020 Great Stuff
- Friday Four Play: The “Roof Is on Fire” Edition If you had the “riots and looting” square on your Revelations bingo card … today’s your day. Go ahead and cover that square up. It’s been that kind of year, you know. And if you’re still worried about covering up that “World War III” square … […]
S&P Sneetches Say Stocks Shift the Same May 28, 2020 Great Stuff
- Star-Belly Sneetches Today, we’re taking a trip back to childhood to discuss a famous Dr. Seuss story: The Sneetches. (Actually, we’re talking about the correlation of S&P 500 stocks … but you’ll see where I’m going with this shortly.) You see, Star-Belly Sneetches have stars on their bellies and Plain-Belly Sneetches have none. Then Sylvester […]
Dow 25,000? Get Real; Robinhood’s Most Wanted … Is Carnival? May 27, 2020 Great Stuff
- Enema of the State I’m in a mood today, dear reader, so let this be a warning that a rant is incoming. First, let’s start out with today’s astonishing development that sparked this Great Stuff mood. The Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 25,000 today — the culmination of a 35% rush off its March lows. […]
Lockdown Pastimes; Novavax Big Time; Travel Stocks Climb May 26, 2020 Great Stuff
- Stir-Crazy Investors We’re all itching to get out and participate in the U.S. economy’s “Great Reopening.” If reports from the Memorial Day holiday weekend are any indication, some of us are a lot more eager than others … I’m looking at you Lake of the Ozarks partygoers. As the country reopens, now is an excellent […]
Fake Markets, Shopify Targets and Tesla’s “Karen” Musk May 22, 2020 Great Stuff
- Friday Four Play: The “Fake It Until You Make It” Edition It’s been a really really messed up week. Five days of bad data, five days of going nowhere. And the market went and cheated on me. It’s in the Fed’s back pocket and it doesn’t even matter. (La, la, la … whatever. La, la, […]
Senate Wise Guys Draw China Eyes May 21, 2020 Great Stuff
- The New Red Scare Here we are… Another Thursday, another weekly initial jobless claims report … and another stock market rally? Some 2.4 million Americans filed for first-time unemployment claims last week. The nine-week total of continuing claims now stands at nearly 39 million. Despite Main Street’s pain, Wall Street’s song remains the same. The […]
Wackos in China, Lowe’s Gets Low, Inovio’s Got Flow May 20, 2020 Great Stuff
- You Can Run on for a Long Time Sooner or later, the market will cut you down. Despite the foreboding song of the day, we’re not talking about doom and gloom again today. With all the floods, plagues, fires, swarms of locusts and murder hornets, I just couldn’t resist a reference to the man in […]
