There is a very special WatchList in VectorVest called: Midas Touch Stocks. This WatchList can be found in the Cherry Picking folder per the WatchList Viewer. The WatchList Viewer is found per the Viewers tab. What are Midas Touch Stocks? Midas Touch stocks are stocks with upward momentum. The Midas Touch Layout can be added [...]
THE MARKET IS ON TRACK! By the time you read this weekly Essay, the US election will be over. Over the last week, there has been a tremendous amount of discussion regarding who will win the US Presidential election and what the impact will be on the markets globally. Markets are forward looking and, chances [...]
A new UniSearch has been added to VectorVest Australia entitled: AU’s Best Growth & Income Stocks. This search empowers you to find stocks with the best combination of Growth & Income. To locate this new search, click on the UniSearch tab and then open the group entitled: Searches – Prudent. The search is listed at [...]
You may recall the weekly Essay entitled “Buy Now Pay Later” on 17 July 2020 or the Essay on 16 July 2021 entitled “Afterpay and Its Looming Competition.” Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) stocks were running hot back in 2020 through 2021. Since 2021, Afterpay (APT.AX when it was listed) was acquired by Block Inc [...]
GOLD ETFS TRACKING HIGHER. No matter how we cut, slice and dice the analysis these days, ETFs have been a real standout for 2024. As of September 2024, Gold ETFs listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) have performed well since the start of 2024. Theory notes that Gold is a defensive asset class and [...]
WHEN WILL INTEREST RATES BE CUT? Cuts in Australian interest rates and when these are likely to take place have been a topic of much discussion between analysts and investors this year. Until inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), is brought into the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) target band of 2 [...]
UPDATED VECTORVEST DIVIDEND ARISTOCRATS We first wrote about the VectorVest Dividend Aristocrats in our weekly Essay on 19 June 2020. You may recall that Dividend Aristocrats are stocks that have increased their dividends year in and year out over the last 10 years or longer. On 31 December 2021, we published a follow up weekly [...]
BEST STOCKS <$3 – 10 TRADING PLAN IS RUNNING HOT The Best Stocks <$3 – 10 trading plan in the Trading System Viewer is running hot! Over the last 3 months, this trading plan is up over 17% (as of 24 April 2024). To see this Trading System in VectorVest, click on the Viewers tab, [...]
AUSTRALIAN BANKS UNDER PRESSURE The Australian mortgage market is worth over 2 trillion AUD. Before early 2022, in a low interest rate environment, banks would probably have got away with not passing on any rate cuts in full to their customers. But in the current environment after a series of aggressive rate hikes, and with [...]
Bitcoin ETFs are Running Hot! On 11 January 2024, 11 Bitcoin ETFs were approved by the SEC for the US market. The ticker codes for the approved Bitcoin ETFs are: ARKB, BITB, IBIT, EZBC, FBTC, GBTC, DEFI, BTCO, HODL, BRRR and BTCW. With the approval, Bitcoin went from a speculative asset that retail investors typically [...]
