What is the stock market’s current psychology and what is the one indicator that best capsulizes it? Perhaps no yardstick best measures the stock market’s mood than the CBOE Volatility Index or VI...
Normally, we think of frontiers as boundaries that mark and often regulate our passage from one realm to another. In finance, though, the one frontier worth mentioning – the Efficient Frontier – i...
Cintas (CTAS) is one of the highest scoring dividend stocks in our database for Dividend Safety (98) and Dividend Growth (99). The company has proven to be an extremely durable business with roots dat...
As a picture is worth a 1000 words, we let the chart speak. Biotechnology peaked last July. The IBB ETF, representing the sector, has dropped from around 400 points to 263 (last close) in a bit more t...
The low price of silver has finally claimed is first victim. Endeavour Silver (EXK) announced that it will cut silver production by 25% in 2016. The company has three mines working in Mexico and will...
World financial markets appear to be in a panic, partly over events in China, and partly over the plunge in oil prices. I will claim no expertise on the former, although people I respect who do write ...
On Wednesday Jan 27th I wrote an article that gave you a picture perfect trade setup. The trade is on sugar or the SGG sugar ETF. As of this writing sugar is now over 10% in our favor from the origin...
Stocks were on a tear today as the first look at the GDP number for 4Q 2015 came in as lousy as expected. If the past is any indication, the next two revisions will take it lower to the zero bound, pe...
Robo Investing firms trumpet the virtues of passive investing. But in order to buy the market, one first has to define the market – and the definitions one chooses are where the action is. Today, we...
The oil price crash impacts the railroad sector. Transporting freight gets cheaper, but demand for railcars to bring oil out of the Bakken fields and other places where pipelines were never laid is no...