Todd Gordon of TradingAnalysis.com takes a look at the SPY and Netflix in today's market analysis.
Shorts are running for cover as we head into earnings season. We set the emotion aside and trade what we see, not what we think, and we see the SPY running to this key price and time resistance zone. Also, we take a look at the upside leader, NFLX, and how to position it with options going forward.
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Todd Gordon
New proposed EPA requirements for the renewable fuel standard program, combined with challenging sugarcane harvests in South America, could increase demand for biodiesel, creating opportunity in a struggling energy sector. In this interview with The Energy Report, Piper Jaffray Analyst Brett Wong names a growing company that could profit from government mandates.
The Energy Report: New proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requirements for the renewable fuel standards (RFS) program could change the landscape for biofuels. What is the new supply-and-demand picture for corn ethanol, biodiesel and sugarcane ethanol? Continue reading "How to Profit from Government Mandates in Biofuels"
How would you feel if you had a portfolio so powerful that you could have outperformed every billionaire hedge fund manager in the world for the past 12 months?
I am betting that you would feel pretty darned good and proud of yourself.
Just about three years ago, I started a model portfolio on MarketClub called the Internet portfolio. This portfolio is comprised of just five well-known Internet stocks.
Facebook.com Inc. (NASDAQ:FB)
Netflix.com Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX)
Yelp Inc. (NYSE:YELP)
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO)
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)
One of the reasons this portfolio has been so successful is the fact that it approaches each of these five well-known Internet stock the same way, without emotion and on an analytical basis. It does not trade on rumors or hearsay, that is almost a surefire way of losing money.
The Internet portfolio is updated daily to provide you with potential buy and sell signals before they happen, there is no guesswork. This portfolio has outperformed Thomas Steyer, the #1 billionaire hedge fund trader for 2015, who is reporting a gain for the past 12 months of 9.99%.
I think that Mr Steyer's performance is very respectable given the type of markets we have had, however you have to remember that you would be paying this billionaire hedge fund manager a 2% management fee and a 20% incentive fee.
Here's a better deal... Continue reading "The Most Important Question I Will Ask You This Year"
By: Joseph Hogue of Street Authority
In June, as the third quarter got underway, consensus profits for companies in the SP 500 were expected to show a modest 1% year-over-year dip. Three months later, analysts now think profits will slide nearly 5%, from year-earlier levels.
Of the companies that have announced guidance, 76 expect negative EPS growth for the third quarter according to FactSet Research. That compares to only 32 companies that have issued positive guidance for the three-month period so far.
The pain continues to build in the energy and materials sectors, but many other sectors are seeing downward earnings revisions as well. Fear of higher interest rates and declining earnings growth led an 8.6% drop in the SP 500 index, and a sharp spike in the VIX volatility index since mid-August.
The trend is so bad that analysts are expecting earnings growth of just 0.6% in the fourth quarter. The revenue picture is equally challenging.
Analysts think that third-quarter sales fell 3.3% against the same quarter last year. On a full-year basis, they are modeling for a 2.4% drop in sales. Unless revenue growth returns soon, investors may start questioning whether corporate management teams can squeeze further earnings growth from continued cutbacks. Continue reading "In A Stormy Earnings Season, These Two Sectors Should Be Safe Havens"
The Stock Whisperer, Stefanie Kammerman, shows you how she uses pre-market price action to pick the hottest stocks of the day.
Stefanie Kammerman has taught thousands of traders worldwide how to day trade and swing trade over the past 21 years. She is the founder and director of The Stock Whisperer Trading Company, where she runs an online trading room called The Java Pit.
She offers numerous workshops, live classes and bootcamps on everything from discipline and the psychological aspects of trading, to how to identify the best levels to trade and how to spot when the big money is buying. Learn by watching her trade as she teaches her students how to read the tape and trade around the dark pool.
Enjoy,
The INO.com Team
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