These gadgets–along with many others, including LED lighting–all need semiconductors. From a long-term perspective, the demand for semiconductors is continuing to grow as the devices become ubiquitous in anything that runs electric current. The problem with investing in makers of semiconductors is that the group had become overbought with the
Carl Icahn, perhaps the most successful investor of recent times, has sent out a new letter to Tim Cook. However, much of the information that is crucial for investors is either not in the letter or not clear in the letter, but came out in an excellent interview on CNBC. Here
In my 30 years in the markets, I have seen many investors who make tons of money trading pure momentum only to lose more than they made in the first place. The irony is that many such investors repeat this cycle again and again. The reason many investors go through
Earnings season is in full swing. In my backtesting, companies that report earnings above analysts’ consensus estimates tend to outperform the market. Here are three popular technology stocks that have reported blowout earnings so far this quarter. Only the data that is most important and has been historically reliable in the past is listed
Apple has scheduled a product-announcement event for tomorrow. My expectations are that the products announced will be mostly evolutionary, but there is a dark horse that can change the game for tablet computing. The dark horse is a 13-inch iPad that is a replacement for full-fledged laptops. If this dark
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. This post is in response to a large number of emails we have received today. Previously we have provided intelligence on GSVC as a way to buy Twitter ahead of Twitter’s IPO. At the time this intelligence was provided the stock was trading at $13.73.
(The Weekly Digest reproduces the morning capsules made available every morning before the market open in the Real Time Feeds to the paying subscribers. ) THE SAME BAD CONGRESS BUT THE RELIEF RALLY CONTINUES October 18, 2013 After the agreement in Washington, the stock market and the gold market
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. Many subscribers are out of PRKR around $6.00. Those still holding may consider exiting a 10% tranche right here around $6.90 and putting a trailing stop on the rest.
This post was published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. Yesterday evening, Twitter announced that it will list its stock on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). This is a coup for NYSE as Twitter is the highest profile IPO of 2013. The road show is likely to begin on October 25th and
It was just last month that Apple released iPhone 5C with fanfare. It was the first time that Apple had introduced two iPhones at the same time. Also iPhone 5C was the first ever mid-market phone introduced by Apple. Two data points show that iPhone 5C has hastened a march