IBD 100 VIEW . Usually I report to you the ‘new names’ in the weekly IBD 100 list of leading companies, those companies outperforming most other stocks in price and with good fundamentals and earnings and revenues. With the idea that there is a ‘first mover’ advantage in becoming...
Richard Schwartz 's PRINCIPLES OF THE STOCK MARKET A learning, teaching, always evolving stock market letter and advisory service Seventeenth Consecutive Year of Publication ; Letter #1; September 18 th , 1990 Post Office Box 1236 · New Paltz, New York 12561 - U.S. A. · (845) 255-6894...
UPDATE ON THE STOCK MARKET . Witten Friday, June 20th, 2008: 6:30 a.m. Looked to me like yesterday’s stock market rally was a knee-jerk reaction to China announcing it was going to raise oil prices by 17%. Crude dove on the news while stocks jumped. But if one thinks it through, is China raising...
The Principle of Relative Strength. Just checked some on where this rally now stands applying one of my principles. One sound fundamental to practice for near and intermediate term performance is to favor those stocks and sectors doing well and then shy away from those sectors underperforming. In fact...
UPDATE ON THE STOCK MARKET . Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 We’re back to three days up in row , hoping today proves to be another up day, the fourth in a sequence, triggering Trader Vic’s bullish 4-Day Rule . In spite of more bad economic data yesterday morning, like twice the expected producer price...
IBD 100 ‘ NEW NAMES’ WEEKLY UPDATE . Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) newspaper put the bull back in the box this morning saying “watch the action of the major indexes and leading stocks” rather than the economy and the news. I’m in agreement with that although I admit it...
UPDATE ON THE STOCK MARKET . Tuesday, February 26th, 2008: Yesterday stocks were buoyed by further hopeful news about saving the vital AAA rating of the two big bond insurers, MBIA and Ambac . A report indicating such late Friday afternoon first helped reverse the stock market’s dismal downtrend towards...
TECHNICALLY . After yesterday’s fall, I now classify all the important indices as down below their previous correction lows of last August. That may be some argument about my interpretation since I use the closing lows. If one uses the extreme intraday lows of August 16 th -- remember when the Fed turned...