In the wake of a recent market selloff, the financial landscape showed signs of recovery, hinting at potential seller exhaustion, a development that may suggest a pivotal shift in where the market goes next.
Amid the volatility, several key economic indicators and corporate earnings reports loom large on the horizon, so will the bullish sentiment hold?
Knowing when to sell may feel like rocket science if you’re new to investing but it can be quite simple. While technicians may bamboozle you with indicators and fancy signals, the best traders in the world keep it straightforward.
Take for example one champion trader who went short the market recently. At a glance of a regular chart,
It’s hard to find the next big thing but Exact Sciences might be as close as any company is to it via its liquid biopsies, a transformative approach to diagnosing and monitoring various diseases by detecting signs of cancer, genetic anomalies, or other conditions in blood or other bodily fluids.
This technology has been particularly promising for cancer,
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It’s a strange phenomenon that at this time of year the airline industry, which you might think sees an uptick in travel spending, actually sees share prices nosedive.
More specifically, the share prices of airlines goes down even as those companies tend to make more money in the coming months as travel demand spikes.
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When we wrote about Apple’s bullish opportunity frankly we weren’t expecting it to be the only stock that held up in the market but the graphic below highlights just how awful Friday’s market was and how nothing escaped the onslaught but the Cupertino giant.
But what other stock could be on the verge of rising after a period of sustained underperformance?
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When the CPI news hit the wires, the market immediately started to sell off on Wednesday. Concerns rose that inflation, which many thought had tempered, was in fact red hot.
Translation: The Federal Reserve would be less likely to cut rates. And since rate cuts have been priced in, the only way for the market to go was down,
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The old fox Warren Buffett might still have the midas touch after all. One of his favorite stocks in recent years has been Occidental Petroleum, and it’s been on a tear recently.
A quick look at the chart reveals that the stock has broken out to the upside, above an old yet key resistance level.
You may not know EQT Corp well but it’s a prominent player in the natural gas industry and historically has a strong seasonal trend during the spring and early summer months as a result of a complex interplay of demand dynamics, investment trends, regulatory changes, historical performance, and global events.
Over the next 10 weeks,
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Making money in the market isn’t always straightforward and usually requires an edge, which can sometimes be found by thinking about about how the flows of capital work.
Take for example the recent surge in metals. On a weekly chart, you can see silver has broken out of a channel that had constrained it for the past couple of years.
If past data is to be believed, there is an 81.8% probability that Centene is likely to pop by double-digit percentage levels over the next 3 months.
Remarkably in 17 of the past 22 years, Centene has gone on a bullish run in the coming months, but it’s not entirely clear why, so we peeled back the layers of the onion to reveal the cause and whether it’s repeatable again this year.
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