Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 17.9% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 15.5% Average Holding Period: 320 days Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 20.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 17.0% Average Holding Period: 306 days The new Trump administration has had an up and down week. Highlights included the requested, tendered and accepted resignation of National Security Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn, the offer and refusal… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 20.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 17.0% Average Holding Period: 306 days Major U.S. stock indexes have again set new highs thanks to President Trump’s promise of a “phenomenal” tax plan, likely full of cuts for businesses and… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 20.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 17.0% Average Holding Period: 306 days Job gains in the first month of 2017 were strong. The U.S. Department of Labor reported this morning that 227,000 were added to payrolls in January, easily trouncing economist… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 20.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 17.0% Average Holding Period: 306 days In his first week in office, President Trump has followed through with some of his most notable campaign pledges. One of the executive orders he signed, perhaps the one… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 20.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 17.0% Average Holding Period: 306 days Earlier today, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. In his inaugural address, President Trump stuck to his usual plain,… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 20.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 17.0% Average Holding Period: 306 days Cyber security was in national focus this week as President-elect Donald Trump’s first press conference since his election largely revolved around the topic. Accusations that the Russians had meddled… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 21.2% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 17.1% Average Holding Period: 300 days Today we saw the first government job report for the New Year. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ report showed that nonfarm payrolls increased by a seasonally adjusted 156,000… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 21.2% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 17.1% Average Holding Period: 300 days In the final trading day of 2016, the S&P 500 finished the year at 2238.83 and logged its third-consecutive daily loss. After setting a record closing-high… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 21.2% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 17.1% Average Holding Period: 300 days Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 21.2% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 17.1% Average Holding Period: 300 days   This week, the Federal Open Market Committee finally pulled the trigger on another quarter-percentage point rate hike. Janet Yellen and company increased the benchmark federal funds rate… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 21.2% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 17.1% Average Holding Period: 300 days Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 21.2% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 17.1% Average Holding Period: 300 days The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning reported that the U.S. economy added 178,000 non-farm jobs in November, slightly below the expected 180,000 print. The agency lowered… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 19.8% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 16.2% Average Holding Period: 304 days In late September, OPEC members surprisingly agreed to a provisional agreement to reduce production, with the details to be finalized in the upcoming November 30 regular… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 19.8% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 16.2% Average Holding Period: 304 days This week we cover our stock pick that has reached an all-time high.   Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 19.8% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 16.2% Average Holding Period: 304 days Wednesday could have been a disaster for the stock market based on the futures market action on Election Night as a Donald Trump victory looked increasingly likely. Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 19.8% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 16.2% Average Holding Period: 304 days The S&P 500 extended its losing streak today, to nine, the longest such streak since December, 1980, almost 36 years ago. Stocks turned red in the… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 19.8% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 16.2% Average Holding Period: 304 days Read More

With mostly sideways action lately, the S&P 500 is now again within spitting distance of its all-time highs. An expectation for one Fed rate hike appears to have been baked into the market, and earnings numbers have largely surprised to the upside—although once again, the bar was set low. OPEC… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 19.8% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 16.2% Average Holding Period: 304 days The Fed released the minutes from its previous Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on Wednesday, which provided more color on discussions during the September confab, when… Read More