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[najarianbros]

Today's VIX Sonar Report

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[alphaarchitect-deactivated20180]

By: Wesley R. Gray, Ph.D.

Aaron Seager, a portfolio manager at Arbor Hill Advisors, offered up the following charts showing alpha over the past 15 years for Warren Buffett and an index of Hedge Funds.

Humbling to say the least…

Warren Buffett’s Alpha

Warren Buffett arguably runs the most...

[barryritholtz]

This week, the “Masters in Business” radio podcast features Joe Saluzzi of Themis Trading. He and co-founder Sal Arnuk are co-authors of the book “Broken Markets: How High Frequency Trading and Predatory Practices on Wall Street Are Destroying Investor Confidence and Your Portfolio.” In the...

[bencarlsonyahoofinance]

The USA Today ran a story about a recent college grad who is saving and investing aggressively with the hopes of early retirement. He’s 23 now and would like to retire by age 40. Here’s more on his lofty goal:

Frank’s goal is to save $900,000 by age 40. To make that happen, he wants to invest...

[allstarcharts]

Since the initial peak after its IPO in 2013, shares of Twitter have been trending lower, well-defined by a series of lower highs. Over the last few months, however, shares were able to stabilize and put in their first lower high since the lows last Spring. This has now given Twitter the...

[frankzorrilla]

Gogo Inc. provides in-flight Internet connectivity and wireless in-cabin digital entertainment solutions in the United States and internationally. The company, through its proprietary air-to-ground (ATG) network and satellite-based technologies, offers a suite of connectivity solutions and...

[dannathan]

There was a lot of excitement around the Nasdaq breaching the 5000 mark yesterday for the first time since March of 2000. Not that I’m not nostalgic, but aside from it being a nice round number it is fairly meaningless. Some will mention that inflation adjusted yesterday’s achievement is a...

[cfainstitute]

By Larry Cao, CFA

Multi-asset strategy is the latest name that the investment management industry has adopted for what has long been known as a balanced fund. Despite the fancy name, this is a subject that affects all investors. Whether you are an institutional manager running billions...

[convergex]

Original & Full Post on Convergex.com.

With the NASDAQ Composite back to the magic 5,000 level, today we look at the “Heavy hitters” in the index. The companies with the top 10 weightings comprise some 32% of the entire index, led by Apple (9.9%), Microsoft (4.8%) the two flavors of Google...

[blainerollins]

A big February is now in the books – where did you score Bonus Points for your portfolios? For investors in U.S. Equities, there were many sectors and market caps to grab extra returns. The tech and healthcare sectors were full of 20%+ movers during the month. Earnings and M&A were the main...

[najarianbros]

BBY - Best Buy beat on bottom line, missed top line, but shares holding 1/5% gain here.

C - Announced it plans to sell subprime lending unit Onemain Financial for $4.25B, shares up 1% in the pre.

DKS - Dicks beat EPS forecasts by 8 cents on stronger revenues, and even lowered guidance unable...

[kimblecharting]

With the many of the major stock indices hitting all-time highs, would it be a surprise to see money managers excited about the markets? If they would happen to be excited, could that be a bearish signal for the markets?

The upper left table below reflects that the National Association of...

[frankzorrilla]

These are the stocks on my watch-list today; DIN, TRV, EW, KELYA, SPN, AAP, Z, YELP, CONN, LOCO. These are actionable today IF AND ONLY THEY GO THROUGH YESTERDAY’S HIGH. IMKTA +9% was the big standout from yesterday’s watch-list.

The Process;

Every morning I go through a few of my scans...

[stocktwits]

This is going to be good. Starts today at 11 AM ET: Q&A with the man who started Goldman’s Internet research efforts. We’ll be talking Nasdaq 5000 today vs. the Nasdaq during the Dot Com bubble. Go to bit.ly/TheTechQA to join us at 11 AM.

#stocks #internet #nasdaq #nasdaq5000 #stockmarket #finance #econ #investing #trading #stocktwits

[peterckenny-deactivated20170320]

As we all know, the Federal Reserve of the United States launched the massive pushinto monetary easing euphemistically referred to as Quantitative Easing (QE) as a direct response to the challenges posed by the financial crisis. There was hardly a soul that fought the Federal Reserve on this...

[dannathan]

Here is some generally directional, untied options activity that caught my eye during Friday’s trading:

1. QQQ - on a day that saw the Nasdaq Composite close above 5000 for the first time since March 2000, it was sort of fitting to see large bullish roll in the etf of the Nasdaq 100 etf (QQQ)....

[kennypolcari]

"NASDAQ Closes Above 5000 - for first time since the Dot Com Era"

Talk about a big nothing done! Dud, Thud…..so what’s the big deal? It’s a nice round century mark - yes….but in reality - why all the diagnostics? Michael Santoli trying to get everyone worked up - “Wow, so exciting, technicians all...