Eric Baker

Eric Baker

Editor, MarketReview.com

Eric has a deep understanding of what moves prices and how we can predict them to take advantage. He also understands why so many traders fail and how they may help themselves.

Contact Eric: eric@marketreview.com

Areas of interest: News & updates from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Banking, Futures, Derivatives & more.

Is IBM Really That Good of a Defensive Stock?

IBM

IBM is being touted as a good defensive technology stock these days. They pay a very good dividend and isn’t as volatile as many tech stocks. Does this make it a good defensive play? Given that a lot of investors are at least a little skittish about the risk that holding stocks involved, and given […]

Is it Wise to Recommend Shorting Apple Right Now?

Apple

If anyone was wondering what the all-time worst stock recommendation was, this would certainly promote a lot of discussion, at least up until now. People need to wonder no more. We definitely need to pay attention to where we enter a trade, and trade here just means entering a position of any expected duration. Our […]

Technical Analyst Sees Emerging Markets Taking Over

Markets

Fundamental analysts get lost in their perspective and ignore charts, where technical analysts at least are looking at the right thing. They can get lost in their charts though. Stock analysts are quite content to do their analysis and just stop there and make their forecasts. An independent observer might point out that they should […]

Taking a Deeper Look Inside Recent Employment Numbers

Employment

In spite of how great the employment numbers are, there’s always room for complaints. It’s important to realize that we don’t want certain numbers to be too good though. Investors tend to look at the jobs report from the perspective of wanting to see evidence of more economic expansion. Investors love more expansion, and will […]

New SEC Advisory Rules Provide Little Improvement

Securities and Exchange Commission, United States

As we prepare for the new advisory regulations set to be implemented this coming June, requiring advisors to pursue the best interests of clients, we’re still far away from this ideal. In an effort to reduce conflict of interest when obtaining investment advice, the Securities and Exchange Commission is finally ready to enact what they […]

Deciding What Sort of Investor You Want to Be

Investor

Al Root has an article out now comparing what he feels are the three investment styles to planetary orbits. Do we want to be stuck on a single orbit though? Al Root is a regular contributor to Barron’s, and in his latest article on their site, he looks to define what he believes are the […]

Tesla’s Recent Trading Activity Should Enlighten Us

Tesla

People are struggling to explain what might be behind Tesla stock rocketing up the charts lately. The real lesson here is that we should not even be trying to explain it. Everyone loves to make predictions about the future price of stocks it seems. Traders aren’t among them, at least the best ones, who instead […]

Stock Market Encouraged by Stellar Jobs Report

Stock Market

Of all the things we look at when we try to gauge the state of the economy, nothing is more important than employment numbers. This is where the rubber meets the road. With all of the focus lately on the trade war, Friday’s jobs report served to erase at least some of these concerns, and […]

Are Small Cap Stocks About to Catch Up More?

Small Cap Stocks

Whenever a type of stock or stock investing strategy has been running cold, people expect a comeback. Talk is picking up about small cap stocks coming back soon. There is an overall rationale in the stock market that believes that underperformance in itself will beget higher performance, and that underperformance is somehow a condition that […]