Adding to the bullish case are all of the sell signals that have failed to work. Prices have failed to heed the Hindenburg Omen and the Titanic Syndrome, among other bearish indicators. Even when signals don’t work as expected, they can still offer insights into the direction of the trend. Failed Sell Signals Are Bullish Jack Schwager interviewed some of the greatest traders in the world for his… Read More

Adding to the bullish case are all of the sell signals that have failed to work. Prices have failed to heed the Hindenburg Omen and the Titanic Syndrome, among other bearish indicators. Even when signals don’t work as expected, they can still offer insights into the direction of the trend. Failed Sell Signals Are Bullish Jack Schwager interviewed some of the greatest traders in the world for his Market Wizards books. In later writings, he distilled some of their best ideas into trading rules. Among his rules is that “a failed signal is more reliable than the original signal.”#-ad_banner-# This year, a number of sell signals have failed, and they could now be pointing toward additional gains for stocks. SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) is up 15.3% since the beginning of the year, adding 1.27% last week. Considering just the… Read More

For income investors, the problems continue to mount. Most recently, the yields available on junk bonds broke to record lows. Barclays U.S. High Yield Index fell below 5%. At this level, there seems to be little protection… Read More

Bill Gates is well-known as the billionaire founder of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT). He has an estimated net worth of $67 billion and is the second-richest person in the world. His net worth increased by about $7 billion last… Read More

While staying cautious, traders need to remember that there is nothing more bullish than rising prices. When prices are trending higher, they can repeatedly reach new all-time highs. Higher highs are, in fact, the definition of an uptrend. This is a reason for… Read More

There are some indicators pointing to a possible top, but the weight of the evidence is not saying it’s time to sell. Traders should, however, start getting more cautious and move their stops closer to current prices. There are always a number of factors… Read More

Major stock market averages are less than 3% from all-time highs, but the bears have found new reasons to doubt the rally. Bears got it right last week, but the long-term trend still looks… Read More

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tracking most major stock market indexes are at or near all-time highs. The good news is that with such broad participation… Read More

After the release of the monthly employment report, the stock market offered hope to the bears — and then the bulls — that the trend was in their favor. At the end of the day, it looks… Read More

Widely known as a corporate raider and activist investor, Carl Icahn views himself as a classic value investor. His company describes the Icahn strategy in simple terms: “We seek to find undervalued companies in the Graham & Dodd tradition. However, while the typical Graham… Read More

A complete trading system can be defined with detailed buy and sell rules. That’s all you need to have a system. Rules let traders know what they should do in advance. Disciplined traders follow their rules and avoid making emotional decisions in fast-moving markets. Two simple ideas — trading rules… Read More