From the looks of today’s stock market action, I’d guess that a lot of traders are still working off that New Year’s Eve hangover from last week. Yes, I was expecting a sell-off in January (six weeks ago I said as much in this column: “Black Friday in Reverse”)… Read More

With only two trading days left in 2014, it appears the U.S. stock market will post double-digit gains for a third consecutive year. This feat is particularly impressive considering we were at a net loss for the year as recently as April, and at only a 2% gain during the… Read More

A lot of good news for the overall stock market last week, resulting in an explosive move to the upside for all of the major indexes after Fed Chairperson Janet Yellen’s remarks on Wednesday.  After getting off to a rough start on Monday, the net result for the week was… Read More

It was one year ago today – December 16th, 2013 – that we published the first issue of Smart Tech Investor. Our reason for launching this service was simple: we believed that tech stocks would lead the stock market in the years to come, and we had a system that… Read More

Just when you thought the news couldn’t get much better for our stock market, along comes a powerful jobs report last week that seems to indicate that some of the corporate wealth accumulating over the past five years is now translating into more jobs for Americans.To be precise that is… Read More

In the stock market, as in holiday shopping, resist the temptation to join the masses. Read More

Most products go on sale during the "Black Friday" holiday shopping frenzy, but only in the stock market are shoppers looking to buy whatever is most expensive. Read More

This month’s trouncing of Democrats by Republicans at the polls has already set off a legislative domino chain that ultimately should result in net neutrality becoming the law of the land. In short, the first thing the GOP did after winning a majority in both houses is send the Keystone… Read More

As our much anticipated “two-tier” stock market begins to take shape, we are excited to see so many of our portfolio stocks already benefiting from the increased interest in companies with sustainable profit models.Case in point is the company we named as “The One Tech Stock to Own in 2014”… Read More

While everyone else was donning masks to celebrate Halloween last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook proved that no disguise is the best costume of all. Read More

Depending on which companies you look at, an argument can be made that it was tech stocks that led the market lower earlier this month (i.e., Netflix, IBM), and it was tech stocks that led the market back up during the past week (e.g., Apple, Microsoft). The chart below illustrates… Read More

Although we talk a lot about our concept of innogration, we are now seeing the companies that need to catch up engaging in "reverse innogration" as a means of stripping themselves down in order to grow back up. Read More

Seems like only last month that the NASDAQ Composite Index was inching towards 4,600 with expectations of it cruising through the 5,000 level. Oops, it was only last month that happened (September 2nd, to be precise).However, much of that optimism has been laid asunder over the past couple of weeks,… Read More

Not the long awaited correction that many envision, but the two-tier stock market that we have been expecting all along. Read More

It doesn't take much to spook the market these days, so all eyes are on Bill Gross and the bond market to see how much money follows him to Janus. Read More

Last Friday’s Initial Public Offering (“IPO”) of stock in Chinese internet conglomerate Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) took the market by storm, jumping more than a third in value from its offering price of $68 a share when it finally started trading. This transaction raised almost $22 billion for the consortium of… Read More

Last week Apple shook up the market by announcing several new product introductions, including its long awaited entry into the wearable tech market – the Apple Watch. While it remains to be seen if the watch – or any other form of wearable tech – really catches on there are… Read More

As Apple goes so goes the S&P500 Index and everything else that is based upon its value – which is probably a lot more than most people realize. Read More

While most of Wall Street took the month of August off, we were busy preparing for the last four months of the year. Read More

Cisco Systems remains profitable, but is reducing headcount by 6,000 employees in order to do it. Can it make it to the other side of the bridge (its logo) before time runs out? Read More