After a terrible 6 month run in 2017, which saw their stock lose more than half its value, Foot Locker has picked themselves off the floor and are now eyeing making it all the way back. May 2017 to November 2017 will not be remembered very fondly by athletic footwear retailer Foot Locker or its […]

Mutual funds on the whole have been actually pulling out of the stock market, with net outflows totaling almost $40 billion year-to-date. Why are we still going up then? One of the things that people pay attention to is how much money mutual funds contribute or take out of the stock market on a net […]

Stocks of U.S. automakers GM and Ford have been far less than exciting anyway, but declining sales numbers are expected to make them even less exciting in 2019. The forecast for U.S. auto sales for 2019 are in. Edmunds projects total unit sales of 16.7 million this year, down from 17.3 in 2018. Sales have […]

The dropping yield of 10-year treasury bills have really been in the news lately, because of an inversion. How much should we even be concerned about 10-year treasuries? There are a number of reasons why the price and yield of treasuries such as the 10-year differ, and it’s not all just about people predicting rough […]

Marijuana stocks have attracted a lot of attention on Wall St. recently, and some stocks like Cronos are up 80% in 2019. These stocks require more care to manage though. Many investors are eager to invest in growth industries, although these days, with everything saturated so much, good opportunities aren’t always that easy to find. […]

Bitcoin has taken quite a beating in the markets, and the CBOE is now planning on delisting it. The media continues to pound it, but things may actually be looking up. To hear Barron’s tell it, in an article just released called “Bitcoin’s Blight Deepens,” you would think that Bitcoin is being left on the […]

Investors think nothing of holding a stock overnight, and makes sense for their strategy. The situation is much different for traders who use leverage, where this becomes unwise. The road to getting a drug or other treatment to market is a long one, and this long lead time gives us a good picture of how […]

People ask what technical analysis has to say with the current stock market conditions. It doesn’t decide things ahead of time, and the most it can honestly tell us is so far so good. We could say that we are at a turning point with today’s stock markets. Which direction we are heading from here […]

What do you do when you see an analyst disagreeing with the market? Even if the analyst is right, if the market is not on board yet with this, you need to wait until it is. Some stocks are very easy to like, others may require a more optimistic view, and some are just plain […]

The Russell 2000 has a lot of stocks in it, but the sum total of them doesn’t add up to much. If we want to track small caps, it is invaluable, but with big caps, it’s pretty meaningless. Traders and investors will sometimes use intermarket analysis to attempt to gain some additional insight on where […]