Stock Market

We’ve seen an encouraging week that has witnessed the market making positive strides forward!  This progress is encouraging. Let’s discuss a number of items we are paying attention that can affect how the market moves in the coming days. Global Trade Tension: This item alone holds so much potential for higher market movement.  Whatever description…

As we look back on 2018 it was certainly a wild ride.  The first 3 quarters of the year brought strong market performance all for it to fizzle in the last quarter of the year.  And yet, analysts we like to follow are already forecasting a strong 2019 with potential double digit returns. That seems…

After a few months of discouraging market movements downward this week brought a historic day in the market!  A late Christmas present arrived on Thursday bringing the largest one day gain in history. We’ve explained about Santa Clause Rallies before and what they are. Here’s a recap of the one-day large gains: The Dow Jones…

Have you ever heard anyone talk about buying stock on a dip?  This is a common way for investors to earn some additional return by buying when a stock has a lower price and it’s expected to bounce back.  However, the stock’s price has to actually go higher after that dip in order for this…

This week brought a pullback in the market like we haven’t seen in a while.  The past two years has really brought strong market returns that many investors have enjoyed.  So after a few days where the market has moved lower, analysts start to ask “why?” and how long will this continue? What we have…

What does it look like when you’re making great progress toward completing a project or solving a problem for the first time?  Does every step move along with ease? Or do you find small things that need fixed along the way? So then it feels like you take one step back to take two steps…