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.

Major Blow on Trade Front Sends Markets Reeling

Market Crash

After the market enthusiastically rose after hearing what normally would bad news, Donald Trump had more bad news for them, and this time the news was unequivocally bad. One day after seeing people’s hope of further interest rate cuts by the Fed set aside, they got some numbers that they could hang their hopes upon […]

Investor Behavior Will Continue to Shape Market Growth

Investor behavior & market growth

We tend to focus a lot on economic data and projections to predict where markets will be heading in the future. Investor behavior plays a big role in these outcomes as well. There is no question that economic trends do play a significant role in shaping long-term equity curves, as better economic times mean that […]

JPMorgan Sees More Short-Term Upside for Disney

Disney

Disney had been a pretty boring stock over the last 4 years, until a surge from its last earnings report finally saw it break through. JPMorgan thinks it can go even higher. Disney is a stock that has been pretty easy to trade long term, as its trends are both pretty distinct as well as […]

Morningstar Analyst Likes Expedia Stock’s Chances

Expedia

While Expedia hasn’t offered its stockholders much to get excited about over the last couple of years, Dan Wasiolek sees some real potential with this travel stock. Expedia at one time had the online travel jungle virtually to themselves, back in the early days of travel sites. They started as a division of Microsoft back […]

Why Small Cap Stocks Are Lagging So Much These Days

Small Cap Stocks

Over the last year, the S&P 500 has gained 9.4%, while the S&P Small Cap 600 has lost 8.4%. We might be in a bull market, but these small stocks aren’t getting much love. Whenever we see a stock, a group of them, or a stock index underperform, people will wonder why. If you don’t […]

Markets Rally a Bit Tuesday as Trade War Outlook Improves

US China Trade War

Tuesday’s market moves weren’t exactly dramatic, and stock markets spent the first part of the day in the negative. China being more accommodating did brighten the mood at least. Tuesday didn’t start out as a stellar day for U.S. stock markets, as the first half of the day was anything but memorable if you rooting […]

Using Wall Street Analysts’ Recommendations Properly

Wall Street

Quite a few people pay attention to recommendations set by Wall Street analysts. These recommendations can be quite useful, but only when used properly. Where a stock’s price is likely headed is a big question that all investors ask themselves, from the moment that they are considering buying a stock to when it comes time […]

Beyond Meat Shows Signs That the Party May Be Over

Beyond Meat

Beyond Meat announced a new product after the close on Monday, which got traders excited enough to push its stock price up by 18% overnight. This gain is all gone now. Beyond Meat’s IPO has been a phenomenal success so far. While we often see its opening price at $25, that’s just what the big […]

Beyond Meat Strikes Back After Analyst Downgrade

Beyond Meat

When your stock is up 273% from its opening price in a little over a month, in a month where stocks did terribly overall, it takes more than an analyst downgrade to end the party. When people looked at the IPO calendar for 2019, Beyond Meat just didn’t get the attention or focus that it […]