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Suddenly the Bears are in Retreat

Suddenly the Bears are in Retreat

Stocks recovered from early losses last week as interest rates stabilized and money streamed into tech. A Friday-afternoon surge landed the S&P 500 back above its 50-day moving average, resulting in a 0.55 percent gain for the holiday-shortened span. The...

Stocks Have Biggest Drop in Two Years as Rates Rise

Stocks Have Biggest Drop in Two Years as Rates Rise

Stocks just took their deepest dive in two years as higher interest rates caused investors to take profits. The S&P 500 cratered 3.85 percent between Friday, January 26, and Friday, February 2 -- its biggest weekly decline since early 2016. The selloff contrasted...

Trust the Trend but Verify: Price Headly

Trust the Trend but Verify: Price Headly

Buy at support, sell at resistance, but always back-test. That was the message from our pro trader this morning. Price Headly, founder of BigTrends.com, runs Donchian channels on his TradeStation platform to time entries and exits. Like many other power users, he's...

Bloom Coming off the Tech Rose?e?

Bloom Coming off the Tech Rose?e?

The year 2017 was undeniably dominated by Technology. Megacaps like Apple (AAPL), Facebook (FB) Alphabet (GOOGL) climbed to new highs. Semiconductors giants like Micron (MU) and Nvidia (NVDA) weren't far behind as foundries basked in record orders from datacenters, AI...