There used to be a time when daring to believe a single company would be worth a trillion dollars seemed like something out of a fable. Then Apple came along, and Meta, and Microsoft. All of them broke the seemingly insurmountable barrier and kept going.
It didn’t seem long before they then went on to hit market capitalizations of $2 trillion.
If you’re going to trade, do it right. You don’t need eight fancy screens and an elaborate setup but what you do need is a serious understanding of what it takes to make money regularly.
First thing is you need to really understand that few traders are actually good at picking stocks. One professor recently came out and said even Buffett was not a particularly good stock-picker,
Despite a stellar start to 2023 with a more than 300% increase in stock price at one point, Meta experienced a significant pullback, shedding 15% in value following its first-quarter earnings report.
Meta reported a very solid Q1, with revenues soaring by 27% to $36.5 billion, the fastest growth rate in several quarters,
Yesterday, we discussed how the market had shown relative strength recently and asked the question whether the bullish sentiment would last. While it’s hard to know precisely when a bottom will take place, we highlighted the danger of trying to pick the low point because inevitably at some stage betting on the bottom will lead to a losing trade where lower lows follow.
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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