Three Buy Signals to Start 2014
PowerRatings continues to show there are few trading opportunities available in the current market but the situation is improving. Heading into today’s trading, there are two stocks priced at $5 or more with a PowerRatings of 10. Only four stocks priced above $5 have a PowerRatings of 9. The stocks with a PowerRatings of 10 […]
Daily Battle Plan to Resume on January 6, 2014
The Daily Battle Plan will resume on Monday January 6. I want to you a happy and healthy holiday! To learn more about The Daily Battle Plan please click here.
Stock Market Approaching Oversold Extreme
PowerRatings can be used to find trading opportunities. Heading into today’s trading, there are few trade signals. On the long side, there are no stocks priced at $5 or more with a PowerRatings of 10. Only five stocks priced above $5 have a PowerRatings of 9. No ETFs or leveraged ETFs have PowerRatings above 8. […]
Gold Joins Silver as a Potential Trading Opportunity
Heading into Friday’s trading, ProShares UltraShort Silver (NYSE: ZSL) was a potential buy candidate with a PowerRatings of 8 and a ConnorsRSI reading of 17.19. Intraday, ZSL continued to display weakness and the trade could have been entered near the day’s low after a 3% pullback. ZSL continues to be a potential buy and additional […]
US Stock Market Closed on New Year’s Day
The US Stock Market will be closed on the following date: January 1,2014 Upcoming Stock Market Holiday Calendar 2014 New Years Day January 1 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day January 20 Washington’s Birthday February 17 Good Friday April 18 Memorial Day May 26 Independence Day July 4** Labor Day September 1 Thanksgiving Day November 27* […]
Silver Offers Trading Opportunity
Precious metals have had a difficult year. SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) is down almost 28% since the beginning of 2013 and iShares Silver Trust (NYSE: SLV) has fallen more than 35%. While the long-term outlook in these markets remains uncertain, a potential buying opportunity has developed in silver. A small rally in the past […]
Year-End Window Dressing Could Boost FTEK
Fuel-Tech (NASDAQ: FTEK) is up 86.7% since the beginning of the year and could be on the shopping list for portfolio managers engaging in window dressing. Some managers are rumored to buy the biggest winners near the end of the quarter or the end of the year so investors will see the stock listed as […]
Our 5 Most Popular Research Newsletter Articles of 2013
In 2013, TradingMarkets provided a variety of articles on a variety of topics for our Research Newsletter subscribers … here are our 5 most popular: Learning From The First Pullback Strategy: The basic goal of the First Pullback strategy is to find a very strong stock that’s showing its first sign of weakness, and then […]
SIMO Could Benefit From Bargain Hunting
As stock prices reach record highs, some investors become concerned about a potential decline and look for bargains in an expensive market. This makes value stocks attractive and Silicon Motion Technology (NASDAQ: SIMO) could be on the potential buy list of value and income investors who will interested in the dividend yield of 4.2%. Value […]
US Stock Market Closed on Wednesday
The US Stock Market will be closed on the following date: December 25, 2013 Also, please note that the Stock Market Closes Early at 1pm on December 24, 2013. Upcoming Stock Market Holiday Calendar 2013 2014 New Years Day January 1 January 1 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day January 21 January 20 Washington’s Birthday February […]
Malaysia ETF Oversold on Four Different Indicators
iShares MSCI Malaysia (NYSE: EWM) is down 4.4% in the past two weeks and is now oversold according to several indicators. EWM closed last week with a PowerRatings of 10. PowerRatings are based on the relative strength or weakness of particular stocks or ETFs. The higher the rating, the greater the one week historical gain has […]
Market Neutral Awaiting a Pulback
If you’ve followed the Daily Battle Plan for some time, you know that yesterday is the traditional pause day after a large one day upward move. What surprised me is the way many of the ETFs that began down trending last month like Brazil (EWZ) and Real Estate (IYR and ICF) reversed their Wednesday gains […]