When a stock has lost 80% of its value since last March, and with some analysts forecasting another 50% decline from here, we need to be careful if we want to jump on this. For whatever reason, cannabis stocks have captured the attention of investors in a way that is entirely disproportionate to their size […]

The first month of the year isn’t even half over, and Tesla stock is already up by 25%. It has more than doubled over the last 3 months. How much higher could this stock go? Tesla serves as an excellent example of how it pays to ride a stock while it’s hot. Tesla has been […]

If we want to go with a stock that lags over ones that don’t, including the index itself, we should need some very good reasons to do it. Coke does have its time and its place. The news on Coca-Cola stock is that the Street sees more upside for it in 2020. It’s hard to […]

If you believe that price to earnings ratios are a big constraint on stock prices, you probably don’t expect much from stocks in 2020. This wall is only made of paper though. People are only calling for a very modest year for stocks next year, only expecting single-digit gains, and it’s actually pretty amazing that […]

China’s economy has been growing at a frantic pace for quite a while now. As this growth slows, so does their capacity to pay back debt. Big cracks are now showing. As much as people complain about regulation, this does serve a valuable function to protect us from ourselves mostly. The implications of inadequate regulation […]

Trading has been particularly lucrative over the last while with markets being so nice and volatile, but trading also accelerates the impact of our mistakes. Here are the biggest ones. Trading is in a sense investing at a much higher rate of speed. The principles of trading versus investing are actually very similar, at least […]

Royal Dutch Shell is being touted by Barron’s as one of their top 10 stock picks for 2020. They think its growth prospects are noteworthy, but it might be good for another reason. There are plenty of stocks that haven’t done very well over the last 10 years, and have tanked while the average stock […]

Analysts are lining up to tell us that small-caps will be big in 2020, where we may expect the S&P 600 and the Russell 2000 to beat the S&P 500. Visions of sugarplums aren’t enough though. Whether or not small cap indexes end up beating the large cap ones such as the Dow, the Nasdaq, […]

Bitcoin is at least becoming more mainstream, with big institutions such as ICE and Fidelity coming on board. Our understanding of Bitcoin still has a long way to go though. The fact that Bitcoin trading has started to mature a little, with it now being able to be traded on the futures market for instance, […]

It costs about $50,000 a year for tuition alone these days at top schools like Harvard and Yale. Whatever all this money buys, teaching them to reason well isn’t on the list. The iconic Harvard/Yale football game has been held every year since all the way back in 1875. Neither of these schools are known […]