Have you ever found it curious that Wall Street analysts almost never recommend selling any stocks? It seems like even the stocks that analysts are lukewarm on get a "hold" rating most of the time. So why is this the case? Tom and Brendan discuss that in this video...
Wall Street analysts have a lot of different ratings for stocks. In this week's podcast Tom and Brendan take a look at why Wall Street rarely says sell. The conversation mainly revolves around a recent article found on MarketWatch, which you can find here. The article...
Point and Figure Charting is not simply for stocks, mutual funds or exchange-traded funds. Of course, if you have an investment in your 401k or your retirement account at work, we would be happy to analyze the funds and investments in your account for you. But we can...
Relative Strength is possibly the single best approach to keep tabs on winners and losers in the stock market. How do you know if your investment is merely taking a breather or pulling back -- or how do you know if this is the start of a freefall off a cliff? Relative...
If you are looking to learn the BASICS of Point & Figure Charting, you should start with this short video here. The point and figure video is only a few minutes long and covers the basics of how point and figure charts began, what these charts can (and cannot) do....
I look at the charts in your 401k plan continuously. If none of the charts are going up, here is our plan: we stay on the sidelines. Pretty simple.
The line heard in every economic recession, and every single stock market pullback is: this time it's different. Which is usually one of the single best indicators to tell you that the market is putting a bottom in place, and we can only expect the market to move up...
I'm going to paint a word picture for you. Suppose you own a stock that gave three successive buy signals last summer -- in 2007. The stock ran from $28 per share up to $34 a share. Sounds good so far, right? But the stock then broke through the support line, was...
This article could be titled: Can (fill in the blank) go any lower? I'm not picking on Merck. The reality is you could drop in Merck, Citibank, General Motors, Ford, J.P. Morgan, along with most other names in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (and most of the largest...
Do you remember the television program, "Who wants to be a Millionaire"?The show was actually featured in a terrific book "The Wisdom of Crowds" by James Suriowiecki. If you remember, the contestants were given three "lifelines" to help them. The first lifeline was...
