The volatility in our Canadian market continues. Today it was the gold miners leading the TSX composite to fall 41 points. The TSX did recover from a 126 point decline in the first hour of trading. Click here for a complete market update video report for Wednesday, April 22: http://www.screencast.com/t/rSTvTSbCoOG In addition to a recap [...]
By Don Fanstone, Kitchener/Waterloo User Group Member Option Blog April 19, 2015: Use the Watchdog to Find Stocks Breaking Resistance: The “Watch Dog” feature has value in looking for stocks breaking resistance or the MACD crossing above the signal line. The Watch Dog is a plug-in module. You can call VectorVest for a free two-week [...]
Our Friday Special Presentation focused on three qualities to look for in retirement stocks: 1. High Relative Safety 2. High Dividend Yield, Safety and Growth, and 3, High Comfort Index. All three are terrific indicators found only in VectorVest. During our Q&A Webinar tomorrow at 12:30 pm EDT, we'll use a few searches to find [...]
It happens to every investor from time to time. We sell a stock that's pulled back and met our sell rules, and as soon as we do, it starts going back up again. Sometimes it keeps going up and we kick ourselves for selling too soon. Sometimes, however, the bounce-back is short lived. It goes back up until [...]
Global markets including Canada and US rose today with European shares hitting eight-year highs. Canada’s MTI (Market Timing Indicator) rose for the 4th straight day. Europe was bolstered by a $70B takeover bid by Royal Dutch Shell, but North American markets pared gains after the largest US crude inventory build since 2001 slammed oil prices. [...]
By Michael Wuetherick, P.Eng. User Group Leader: Red Deer Alberta April 7, 2015 Do you want to TURBOCHARGE your returns? Add some technical parameters to your UniSearch parameters and unlock some big wins! Without doubt, one of the most impressive features of the VectorVest platform is the powerful UniSearch capabilities. Users are limited only by [...]
By Don Fanstone, Kitchener/Waterloo User Group Member Option Blog April 5, 2015: Cutting Losses: The old adage: “If you keep making the same mistake, you’ll keep getting the same result.” This is never more-true than in the market place, whether it’s trading shares or options. If there happens to be anyone out there in Blog-Land [...]
Gold and oil prices lifted the TSX to a 40 point gain today. US stocks fell on weaker than expected economic data, however, the DJI gained back more than 100 points from the day's low, closing down 77 points. Notice from the graphic that VectorVest's Color Guard is Mildly Bearish in both Canada and the [...]
Terrific attendance on our SOTW Q&A webinar today. I was asked by several people if would provide a copy of my slide presentation. So, I have copied them to a PDF and attached it below. (Hover your mouse over the top right corner of the PDF. A tab labelled 'pop out' will appear. Click on it if you [...]
In case you missed it, the US market officially turned BEARISH on Friday. VectorVest's Earnings Trend Indicator for the S&P500 forecasted EPS fell below 1.00 to 0.99 which triggered the signal. The Truth Chart tells us that the market is now in a Case 6 Bear Market Scenario in which earnings and inflation are trending lower [...]