Monthly Archives: July 2015

Kill Short-Term Pressures

Summary Value investing involves time-horizon arbitrage. How do you cope with the short-term while you wait for the long-term? Here is how I try to manipulate my environment to remove the short-term. Time-Horizon Arbitrage While I invest in a number of specific types of event driven opportunities, they each are examples of time-horizon arbitrage. In…

Kill Short-Term Pressures

Summary Value investing involves time-horizon arbitrage. How do you cope with the short-term while you wait for the long-term? Here is how I try to manipulate my environment to remove the short-term. Time-Horizon Arbitrage While I invest in a number of specific types of event driven opportunities, they each are examples of time-horizon arbitrage. In…

Intrexon – All Time High

The Chart of the Day belongs to Intrexon (NYSE:XON). I found the biotechnical stock by using Barchart to sort today’s All Time High list for the stocks with the highest Weighted Alpha, then used the Flipchart feature to review the charts. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 7/14 the stock gained 24.11%. Intrexon Corporation is a biotechnology company. It…

Facebook Reports Q2 Earnings, Traders Sell News

After the bell Wednesday, social media giant Facebook (FB – Analyst Report) posted Q2 earnings and results were mixed on the top and bottom lines. Earnings of 30 cents per share (accounting for stock-based compensation and other before non-recurring items; the company’s headline number was 50 cents per share) on quarterly sales of $4.04 billion compare to…

Q2 Earnings Season Halftime Report

And just like that, we’re already at the midpoint of the second quarter earnings season. Technically, we’re past that, with 264 S&P 500 companies reporting. As usual, we are in much better standing in regards to growth than we were at the beginning of the season. Earnings per share growth currently stands at -0.3%, still…

Market Odds For September Rate Hike Drop To 0%

Market Leans Dovish After Fed Statement The implied probability of a September rate increase from the Federal Reserve, based on 30-day Fed funds futures prices, dropped to 0% following Wednesday’s dovish policy statement. In recent weeks, the implied probability for a September rate increase was hovering between 17% and 21%. GDP Coming Thursday While the…

Whole Foods Misses On Earnings And Revenue

Whole Foods Market (WFM – Analyst Report) is a grocery retail chain that leads the industry in providing natural and organic foods. Based in Austin, Texas, Whole Foods stores area combination of a local farmer’s market and a neighborhood supermarket. The company appeals to a growing market of health conscious consumers who are becoming more concerned about…

Best Of The Nasdaq 100 – MNST, AMZN, SBUX, CELG, VRSK

Today I wanted to find the best performers of the Nasdaq 100 Index so I used Barchart to sort the stocks of that Index first for the highest Weighted Alpha then for a Barchart technical buy signal of at least 80%. Today’s list includes Monster Beverage (NASDAQ:MNST), Amazon.Com (NASDAQ:AMZN), Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX), Celgene (NASDAQ:CELG) and Verisk Analytics (NASDAQ:VRSK). Monster Beverage Barchart technical indicators: 80% Barchart technical buy signals…