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Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 17.9% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 15.5% Average Holding Period: 320 days Stocks reacted very positively to the outcome of the French election last Sunday. Ex-investment banker and ex-economic minister Emmanuel Macron took first place with 24.0 percent of… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 17.9% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 15.5% Average Holding Period: 320 days Just mere days after the murder of a policeman in Paris by an Islamic gunman, the French will cast their votes for their next president on Sunday. Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 17.9% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 15.5% Average Holding Period: 320 days Less than one week after ordering an airstrike in Syria in retaliation for Assad’s use of chemical weapons—the first direct U.S. attack against the Syrian government—President Trump… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 17.9% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 15.5% Average Holding Period: 320 days This morning the Labor Department reported that the U.S. employment rate fell to 4.5 percent in March, the lowest it’s been since mid-2007, nearly ten years ago. Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 17.9% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 15.5% Average Holding Period: 320 days It has been a while since potential Washington drama has negatively impacted markets and optimism has run high since the November election. However, this week’s health-care bill… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 17.9% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 15.5% Average Holding Period: 320 days At the March Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting this week, the Fed raised the benchmark federal funds rate to a target range of 0.75 percent to… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 17.9% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 15.5% Average Holding Period: 320 days Since reaching a peak last Thursday after President Trump’s first Congressional address, the S&P 500 has largely trod water—closing yesterday roughly 1 percent from its March 1… Read More