Trading desks around the world are still buzzing from Thursday, Sept. 13’s announcement by the Federal Reserve that it will expand its mortgage-backed security purchase program to $40 billion per month for an unlimited period of time. The term de jour for this new game-changing policy among the pros is… Read More

When a company announces a quarterly shortfall and lowers guidance, investors have been known to shoot first and ask questions later. That lesson was painfully brought home to the insiders at Maxwell Technologies (Nasdaq: MXWL), who were initially stunned to see the company’s stock tumble from about $20 in late… Read More

Most technical indicators are designed to predict trend changes or confirm the direction of the trend. Standard indicators, like MACD or RSI, all tend to offer trading signals at the… Read More

Stocks in the financial sector have been red-hot of late. In fact, the gains in many of the largest and most-prominent banking and brokerage companies have been on fire, particularly during the past month, and especially during the past week.#-ad_banner-# So, what’s the reason for the big spike in financials?… Read More

This market is surely a head-scratcher. Stocks have trended higher for more than three years, even as the United States remains in an economic funk and corporate profits are slowing. The market seems to be ignoring the possibility that if the U.S. Read More

Among the biggest losers in Thursday’s early trading are Pluristem (Nasdaq: PLSTM) and FirstMerit (Nasdaq: FMER). There’s a very good reason why biotech investors are implored to monitor “cash-burn rates.” Many of these companies chew through their funds at a rapid pace, so they need to keep reloading the… Read More

Among the biggest winners in Thursday’s early trading are K12 Inc. (NYSE: LRN) and Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX). A controversial business model — with robust growth metrics Anyone involved in public education has surely been hearing about K12 Inc. This company has developed… Read More

The power of options is evident in a stock substitution trade in Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS). The stock is up about $2.25 since my recommendation on Aug. 29, an impressive 15% gain in just over a week’s time. The payoff on the deep… Read More

Among the biggest losers in Wednesday’s early trading are Globecomm Systems (Nasdaq: GCOM) and Xyratex (Nasdaq: XRTX). As the need to quickly access ever-rising streams of corporate data becomes a central mission, a number of companies providing data storage have been able to generate very impressive growth. For example,… Read More

Among the biggest winners in Wednesday’s early trading are Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) and Facebook (NYSE: FB). Chesapeake’s underwhelming spike By the time it became fully apparent that natural gas giant Chesapeake Energy needed to sell off assets to stave off of a looming liquidity crunch, the damage… Read More