With the year wrapping up, the next few days of the stock market should be very uninspiring. I have a lot of interesting things lined up for 2012, so in the mean time get yourself pumped and rejuvenated for the coming year with some of the best Wall Street movies ever made… or at least [...]
I was running a scan to pull back stocks that have seen at least a 100% return year-to-date. To my surpass, Dominos Pizza (DPZ) popped up on the list. I decided to do a little more digging to see that many similar restaurant type companies have been having a great year (i.e. McDonalds (MCD), Yum Brands [...]
Anybody else getting sick of this horrible, rationale-lacking, up and down market? It seems everyday the market moves based on a country saying this or that. Today it might be Greece and tomorrow Italy. The big picture is the same – economies are crumbling and people are panicking. If you are invested long-term (i.e 3+ [...]
In this market, a top criteria for any good stock buy is whether the company has global exposure. In other words, does your company have customers in other parts of the world. A trader’s due diligence in this case can simply be done by doing some Internet research, but what would be the fun in [...]
Consumers are not irrational. They will pay for quality products. For evidence, just take a gander at Apple’s (AAPL) financial statements. While we are supposed to be in one of the worst economies in history, the company has done nothing but create new record earnings after record earnings. The problem with pricing often arises when [...]
Yeah the markets are volatile, but that does not mean you cannot predict the next move. The saying goes that 75% of stocks move with the trend of the overall market. So if the market is green, then you have a 75% chance of holding onto a winning stock. Below is a chart of the [...]
You are already probably aware, so I am not going revisit the entire Netflix (NFLX) action over the last couple of weeks. More about that can be read here. The real important topic is, why? Why would a company experiencing so much growth want to mess with that formula? Why would a company with a [...]