Research Report Excerpt #1 Amazon shares took the biggest hit post-earnings release date. The company missed analysts estimates on the top line, while beating handily on the EPS/bottom line estimate. As I discussed investor’s reaction to the revenue miss with Seth, he offered the following, which was also shared with Finom Group members in the…
Research Report Excerpt #1 Year-end gets nearer with each passing week. Month-end is always a good time to review one’s goals for the year and possibly look at where you proved successful in the first half of the year and where opportunities have popped up for potential course-correction. When you’ve mastered the exercise of monthly,…
Research Report Excerpt #1 The primary trend for the S&P 500 is higher, either due to structure or earnings and presently both are favoring a continuation of the primary, long-term trend. Staying with an uptrend produces more opportunities than most are willing to believe and/or experience. Ironically it isn’t until after the fact that some…
Research Report Excerpt #1 The key to a healthy cyclical bull market is consistent market rotations. If everything goes up together, breadth thrusts are inevitable, but so is the likelihood of everything going down together, which is not the signs of a healthy bull market. So while there are plenty of complaints about market breadth…
Research Report Excerpt #1 This Bloomberg chart was making the rounds this past week. Less than 45% of S&P 500 stocks trading above 50-DMA. The situation comes with the S&P 500 at all time highs, and of course the last time this happened was 1999/2000. It seems as though anytime you correlate a chart of any kind…
Research Report Excerpt #1 With this front of mind, I would suggest that investors not dwell on this past week’s retreat in the markets, even if Friday’s market action culminated with the lows of the week. One week, one day… that does not make a month or a year. While Friday’s retreat in the major…
Research Report Excerpt #1 Over my many years of investing and providing a financial market service to investors, I’ve found the perception principle reins supreme amongst investors/traders. It’s often very, very detrimental to the average investor/trader as well. Here’s what I mean by way of the following tweet via Michael Santoli of CNBC. (Again, Seth’s…
Research Report Excerpt #1 A huge challenge to achieving long-term gains in the market, if not the #1 reason, is the ability to overcome “fears”. The fear emotion is the greatest variable an investor/trader will likely ever contend with in the market. It’s a seemingly endless battle. Over the last 15 years as an active…
Research Report Excerpt #1 All of this standing in place has brought about a significant divergence in the 2010 analogue above. Despite a second down wave during the first 3 days of the past trading week, with the bounce-back on Thursday (5/20), the S&P 500 was never more than -4% from the last high reached…
While Finom Group does not offer a full-scale Research Report this particular weekend, we do have some thoughts to outline and through the following charts. The question investors have on their minds, after an 8% Nasdaq (COMPQ) correction, 10% Russell 2000 (RUT) correction, and recent 4% pullback in the S&P 500 (SPX)… then watching all…
