Stocks

Just Another Manic Monday? On Monday, the Nasdaq plunged over 3%. With the S&P 500 dropping a similar amount and the Dow plummeting over 1,000 points (a 2.6% drop), it was the biggest one-day drop…

As a long-term stock trader, one development in the stock market takes me and many others to our collective knees. It’s a Volatility Index ($VIX) that rises past 20. There has never been a bear…

Good morning and welcome to this week’s Flight Path. Equities could not hold onto “Go” colors any longer and we saw a strong purple “NoGo” bar as the trend changed on the last bar of…

The market is dropping perilously right now and so it is time to review Bear Market Rules. Today Erin and Carl share their rules for trading during a bear market move. We aren’t officially in…

On a day when the S&P 500 ($SPX) drops over 200 points at the open, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU) and Nasdaq Composite ($COMPQ) drop more than 1,000 points, looking at your portfolio…

In the classroom we would have students alter their view of charts they were evaluating to gain fresh perspective and possibly enhance their analysis. Students often had Ah-Ha moments after freshening their interpretation of a…

The S&P 500 index ($SPX) is a capitalization-weighted stock index. Many lesser capitalization blue-chip stocks that compose these 500 companies have been performance laggards. Though smaller companies in the index, these corporations are among the…

The previous week turned out quite volatile for the markets as they not only marked a fresh lifetime high but also faced corrective pressure as well towards the end of the week. The markets maintained…

The S&P 500 index ($SPX) is a capitalization-weighted stock index. Many lesser capitalization blue-chip stocks that compose these 500 companies have been performance laggards. Though smaller companies in the index, these corporations are among the…

The S&P 500 index ($SPX) is a capitalization-weighted stock index. Many lesser capitalization blue-chip stocks that compose these 500 companies have been performance laggards. Though smaller companies in the index, these corporations are among the…