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
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
Would you be prepared if the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell another 4,000-plus points? That kind of decline sounds shocking. But it’s instructive because it points to an important element of investing: preparedness. The Dow has fallen more than 4,000 points from its high this year — all of it
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is being universally criticized for what he had to say in the press conference after the release of the central bank’s policy statement. The stock market is giving Powell the thumbs down. But could he be smarter than the rest of the gurus? Let’s explore
Nothing has changed in the stock market in my three-plus decades in four respects. 1. When stock prices go down, bearish gurus come out of the woodwork and start fear-mongering. 2. When stock prices go up, bullish gurus come out of the woodwork and start making rosy predictions. 3. Many
Investors who want an edge in the stock market know from experience that segmented money flows are one of the tools that work. During the rip-roaring bull market, many investors did not care about an edge. They simply believed in “buy, buy and buy.” Some of those investors are now
After President Trump’s tweet about a potential 10% tariff on iPhone imports from China, investors’ heightened attention to technology stocks moved a notch higher. Becky Quick of CNBC was in tune with investor concerns, as shown in this segment, but it was my answer to the spot-on question from Andrew