The U.S. stock market is at an inflection point, as all eyes are on a potential trade deal with China. There’s a March 1 deadline for reaching an agreement. How should prudent investors navigate this situation? It may not be as straightforward as you think. Let’s examine the issue with
In September, the momo (momentum) crowd was euphoric about popular tech stocks. In December, they were panicking about those same stocks and taking losses by aggressively selling. Now the momo crowd is aggressively buying tech stocks again. What if you were taking partial profits or selling in September? What if
Alphabet reported excellent earnings, but the stock has been hit because the company projected higher expenses. There is quite a contrast between how investors treat Amazon AMZN and Alphabet GOOG, GOOGL. Investors love Amazon when it says it is going to spend more money, but they don’t feel the same
100% Certainty You already know Arora’s Second Law: Nobody knows with certainty what is going to happen next. In the middle of the uncertainty of the markets, you have benefited from nuggets of wisdom from Nigam such as: There is not a whole lot we can say with 100% certainty
President Trump is facing a conundrum. He watches the stock market carefully. An easy way for him to prop up the stock market is to enter into a soft trade deal with China and declare victory. However, that is clearly not in the long-term national interest. If Trump stays true
Millions of American investors have been brainwashed. Are you one of them but don’t know it? I will help you answer this all-important question later in this article. First, pause and read this story about the U.S. economy potentially losing its No. 1 ranking next year. This should give you
Human nature is such that nothing teaches us better than the school of hard knocks. Until the last quarter of 2018, many individual investors were fond of making contemptuous comments every time I wrote about the importance of gaining an edge. Of course, professional investors have always known better. In
Weekly Digest from The Arora Report is popular among serious investors and money managers because they have found studying insights from the prior week gives them an edge over the coming weeks. Here is the day by day rundown from the morning capsules made available every morning before the market
The nature of the media and analysts is such that it makes life difficult for investors. Last September, when the stock market entered a bull trap, the media were promoting analysts who had the most bullish projections. On Christmas Eve, which has turned out to be the low in the
Apple CEO Tim Cook was the last person to know that Chinese consumers weren’t buying iPhones in ever-increasing numbers. That is, if you believe Apple’s public pronouncements and Wall Street analysts. Cook said in a letter to investors Wednesday: “[W]e did not foresee the magnitude of the economic deceleration, particularly