4 10, 2024

Mastering Options for Beginners: How to Profit Even in a Sideways Market

By |2024-10-04T17:19:51+00:00October 4th, 2024|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Options, Stock Market News, VectorVest|Tags: , , , , , , |

Written by: John LinDahl There are many myths about options being risky.  While risk is inherent in any investment, options, when used correctly, can mitigate risk, and increase profit.  Have you ever bought a stock because you thought it was going to go up, but instead it went up a little, down a little, [...]

30 09, 2024

Investors’ Inspiration

By |2024-09-30T13:29:38+00:00September 30th, 2024|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Market in Review, Stock Market News, VectorVest|Tags: , , , , , , |

Written by: Angela Akers In last week’s “Special Presentation,” Mr. Steve Chappell discussed and demonstrated the efficacy and effectiveness of the VectorVest RealTime Derby. The Derby analyzes, sorts, ranks and graphs the second-by-second performance of 169 portfolios. It tracks each portfolio’s performance from the current day’s opening bell and displays the results from the [...]

23 09, 2024

What Sectors Will Benefit from Rate Cuts

By |2024-09-23T14:10:16+00:00September 23rd, 2024|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Market in Review, Stock Market News, VectorVest|Tags: , , , , , , |

Written by: Angela Akers The Federal Reserve delivered a 50-basis point rate cut this week, which was unexpected until a few days ago. Fed Chair Powell was clear that the Fed is “committed to maintaining” economic strength. The heftier-than-anticipated cut came in the wake of a revision to the jobs data and concern over [...]

16 09, 2024

THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS

By |2024-09-16T13:00:45+00:00September 16th, 2024|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Market in Review, Stock Market News, VectorVest|Tags: , , , , , , |

Written by: Angela Akers The financial world and talking heads were all a buzz this week about what the economy would look like under Harris versus Trump following Tuesday’s debate and what companies would be a good investment in that regard. Also discussed, the upcoming Federal Reserve meeting where the Fed is widely expected [...]

3 09, 2024

BE EXCEPTIONAL

By |2024-09-03T15:52:57+00:00September 3rd, 2024|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Market in Review, VectorVest|Tags: , , , , , |

Written by: Angela Akers Analysts have been calling Nvidia (NVDA) the “most important stock in the world right now” and the earnings report was touted as the “most important earnings call” of the quarter. It’s not surprising because the AI boom that has occurred over the past several years has been led by NVDA. [...]

26 08, 2024

THE BULL MARKET THRIVES

By |2024-08-26T12:22:25+00:00August 26th, 2024|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Market in Review, VectorVest|Tags: , , , , , |

Written by: Angela Akers It was a bit of an interesting week for investors. The biggest news, and that which affected investors’ risk appetite the most, was anticipation of our fearless Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s Jackson Hole speech. That speech took place this morning, and, as he has done in previous years, Chair [...]

19 08, 2024

THE BEST STOCKS AT A BETTER PRICE

By |2024-08-19T12:05:37+00:00August 19th, 2024|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, VectorVest|Tags: , , , , |

Written by: Angela Akers A softer core Producer Price Index reading sparked a rally Tuesday, but an expected reading on Consumer Prices didn’t have the same, desired effect Wednesday and prices closed only modestly higher. Better-than-expected Retail Sales soothed investors’ fears on Thursday, and they began buying again. After several weeks of red and [...]

12 08, 2024

INVEST IN YOURSELF

By |2024-08-12T15:47:08+00:00August 12th, 2024|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, VectorVest|Tags: , , , , |

Written by: Angela Akers Talk of a recession resurfaced late last week following some downtrodden economic data and Friday’s sell-off continued Monday. As I’m sure you’re all aware, the rest of this week has been a rollercoaster ride. Just 7 trading days into August, the Major Indices have lost an average of 3.8% and [...]

5 08, 2024

VITAL TO YOUR SUCCESS

By |2024-08-05T15:10:39+00:00August 5th, 2024|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Market in Review, VectorVest|Tags: , , , , , |

Written by: Angela Akers The Federal Reserve ended their July meeting Wednesday with an announcement that interest rates would remain at current levels. While this move was expected, what investors really wanted to know was when/if and how many cuts we could see this year and the Fed delivered. In the news conference following [...]

29 07, 2024

The July High

By |2024-07-29T14:22:49+00:00July 29th, 2024|Categories: Earnings Announcements, Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Market in Review, Stock Market News, VectorVest|Tags: , , , , , |

Written by: Angela Akers Investors went into July with the intent to buy stocks. The Major Indices and the Price of the VVC were rising nicely in the first couple weeks of the month, with the DJI adding 2.79%, the S&P500 rising 3.13%, the Nasdaq picking up 4.17% and the Price of the VectorVest [...]

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