Stock Market Earnings Preview For The Week of January 16th

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Greetings, After the first full week of the new year and a higher volume distribution day in the markets on Friday after weak earnings from J P Morgan (JPM) we still found ourselves with gains for the week. As we enter the coming week that will see earnings reports start to pick up we are holding 2.5% gains on the S&P 500 and 4% gains on the NASDAQ for the calendar year 2012. Lets take a look at some of the companies due to release earnings this week and highlight what … [Read more...]

Trading Stocks During Earnings Season

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Greetings, January, 11, 2012 If you have been around the stock market for any amount of time you know that trading stocks during earnings season can be somewhat of a challenge to say the least. With earnings season about to really get underway here now I thought that today would be a great time to share my take on trading around earnings. I will say that there is nothing like owning a stock that reports great earnings that are well received by investors and watch proudly as your … [Read more...]

Stock market week in review, week ending January 6th.

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Greetings,   It was a short week with light volume in the market during this first week of 2012, however we did manage some impressive gains in the process, for the week the Dow added  1.1%,  Nasdaq added 2.6%,  and the S&P 500 tagged on 1.6%. But the more bullish indicator to me was the strength of the financial sector this past week, we had the XLF up 3% , JPM up 6.3% and WFC up 5%. This is significant at any time but perhaps even more so as we find … [Read more...]