Many investors wish to keep their long-term stock positions for tax reasons, but this involves taking on the full risk involved. Managing this with futures can make sense. It’s pretty easy to manage your positions in stocks just by moving in and out of them as needed. While stocks in general gain in value over […]

The stock market seems to be coming down with a virus right now, and while people aren’t that concerned about this one, we can still take a little medicine for these things. With the threat of the coronavirus in China increasing, it isn’t really that surprising that U.S. stocks are starting to come down with […]

Just about all of the analysts are calling for only single-digit returns for stocks in 2020. We shouldn’t just take their word for this though, and look into the matter more deeply. The much more modest outlook for the stock market that just about everyone is predicting for the coming year is actually pretty easy […]

There are a few ingredients that are helpful to drive a company’s stock higher. Bank of America is a nice mix of business performance, buybacks, and increased optimism. Bank of America CEO Brian Moynahan isn’t quite as famous or even as well regarded as JP Morgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon, the darling of big bank CEOs, […]

2020 Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais fancies himself as a comedian, and maybe even a good one, given how much of a fool that he made of himself on this awards show. The saddest thing about British comedian Ricky Gervais taking potshots at companies like Apple, Amazon, and Disney is that this actually was pretty […]

When it comes to designing a stock picking strategy, we tend to make things a lot more complicated than we need to. We can do well just by using a couple of basic principles. It is no wonder why so many investors throw up their hands when it comes to picking their own stocks. While […]

While round numbers such as $1500 really isn’t that big of a deal, breaking trendlines certainly can be. Gold prices are looking like they are getting ready to move up again. You don’t see many people get excited about the price of gold going down, even though we can make plenty of money when it […]

Alphabet, better known as the company who owns Google, has been a star performer ever since the stock got issued in 2004. As big as it has become, it is still growing nicely. Barron’s doubled down on its selection of Alphabet as one of their top 10 stock picks for 2020 by running another article […]

J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s chief global strategist David Kelly has just shared his thoughts on a number of issues of concern to investors, and he covers a lot of ground. While most investors approach investing in a completely passive way, and don’t really have a plan to react to circumstances and outlooks as they develop […]

Bernstein continues to attempt to downplay the effect that Elizabeth Warren becoming president may have on the markets. It may be less than we think, but for a different reason. The extent of the worry about how Elizabeth Warren winning the presidency in 2020 may affect the stock market is well documented. Bernstein economist Philipp […]