They Tell You to Worry About Interest Rates… Don’t Listen
It feels like every few weeks there’s a new reason to sell your stocks. And worries over rising rates are the latest development getting investors to sell perfectly fine shares of stock. Wall Street analysts are pointing to rising interest rates as the reason we’re...
Earnings Edge: A Tale of Two Retailers
The first three months of the year are expected to be a turning point for corporations. While the companies that make up the S&P 500 turned the fourth quarter of 2020 into positive earnings growth fueled by strong U.S. consumerism, the biggest jump is expected in...
Protect Your Trades With Options
Alright, I’m going to solve one of the biggest problems when it comes to investing. Let’s say there’s a stock that you like, but shares are just going the wrong way for you. You were willing to stick with the decline in the beginning, but at some point, you begin to...
Why Market Swings Don’t Scare Me
I know the stock market has been volatile the past few days. We’ve seen big momentum stocks, the ones that shot up hundreds or thousands of percent in 2020, drop 10% to 30% in a matter of days. Tesla, our old favorite electric vehicle stock, has plunged as much as 40%...
Up in the Cloud: MongoDB and Cloudera Earnings Face-Off
We are going sky-high in the Earnings Edge today! Two cloud-based companies report earnings this week: Cloudera Inc. (NYSE: CLDR) and MongoDB Inc. (Nasdaq: MDB). I know there’s volatility in the overall market. Some momentum stocks like Cloudera and MongoDB got a...
How to Spot a Winning Stock Chart
The stock market has consumed my life since college. I’ve studied every aspect of it. From various valuation methods to watching every tick during the day, and I loved it all. But, over the years, I’ve been busy perfecting one specific craft that gives me an advantage...
How We Make Our Winning Streak Even Better
I love being on a winning streak. It gives you the feeling that everything you have put into a strategy, all the blood, sweat and tears in developing a profitable approach, is paying off. And no matter how many times it comes, it reminds me of why I put in the work to...
A Battle for the Consumer: Costco vs. Target Stock
This week, we are pitting the earnings of two mega department stores against each other, Costco Wholesale Corp. (Nasdaq: COST) and Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT). Both report quarterly numbers this week, but it may be a tale of two paths. Costco is a giant warehouse...
The Profit Trigger in Action!
Want to know what separates the successful traders from the duds? Emotions. They can be your worst enemy. Emotions can get the best of you at the absolute wrong times. They’re what tells you to stay in a trade to squeeze out a little more gains … or to panic and sell...
How to Ride Post-Earnings Drifts to Profits
There are swarms of new traders hoping to find overnight success in the stock market right now. Traders like Anubhav G., who joined in on the GameStop frenzy. According to The Wall Street Journal, he turned $500 into over $200,000 in less than three weeks during the...
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