The Cactus League is Not Just for Baseball

21Mar11:38 amEST

March Madness Plays

(Above graph courtesy of @JeffDLowe on Twitter and of Barstool Sports) With the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament already underway with the play-in games the last two nights, the traditional tournament games tip off this afternoon. Unlike the Super Bowl, the NCAA tourney's television ratings are not quite as strong as you think. The games are...

20Mar5:28 pmEST

Stock Market Recap 03/20/19 {Video}

The following video is a brief, condensed version of the Stock Market Recap which I present each evening to members of Market Chess Subscription Services. In the longer version, I offer tons of actionable trade ideas, educational content, and in-depth objective analysis across all markets. If you enjoy my videos and blog posts, then please...

20Mar11:03 amEST

Oozing Confidence

Some index weakness in front of the FOMC later today is driving home the point that this market continues to digest recent gains as we approach both the end of the month and first quarter of trading. It remains to be seen if the Fed is bold enough to talk up a hawkish game this afternoon, one which could spook markets, or instead if they...

19Mar5:42 pmEST

Stock Market Recap 03/19/19 {Video}

The following video is a brief, condensed version of the Stock Market Recap which I present each evening to members of Market Chess Subscription Services. In the longer version, I offer tons of actionable trade ideas, educational content, and in-depth objective analysis across all markets. If you enjoy my videos and blog posts, then please...

19Mar10:33 amEST

A Market Surfing the Highs

Even with small caps flipping slightly red as I write this, the broad market is largely hanging onto gains since Christmas and, in some cases, building on them yet. To be sure, looking for a near-term market top seems like it is overdue. However, that's just it: Sentiment is far from euphoric and stocks mostly are not cracking. If anything,...

18Mar2:36 pmEST

Not Necessary for Lightning to Strike Twice

The headline this morning read that FIS is set to buy Worldpay, an E-Commerce payments processor, for $34 billion. For a while now, we know that the payments space has been exuding impressive growth and has often enjoyed obvious institutional sponsorship. So even if more M&A does not come (i.e. lightning striking twice), we still want to keep...

16Mar9:26 pmEST

Saturday Night at Market Chess Cinemas

In honor of this St. Patrick’s Day's Eve, a great Irish film to see is My Left Foot (1989), starring the legendary Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker and Alison Whelan. Day-Lewis won the Oscar for Best Actor which effectively put him on the map as one of the finest actors in the businesses. And it has been that way ever since. Via imdb.com ...

15Mar2:01 pmEST

Medical Device Strength {Video}

14Mar10:38 amEST

Calmer Seas Ahead for Snap

Shares of SNAP rallied hard at the open after longtime BTIG bear Richard Greenfield upgraded the stock to buy from neutral due to expectations of rising advertising revenue. Seeing SNAP, a name which I have been long with Members for a few days now, pop at the open, combined with a mixed broad market open, was one of those spots where I simply...

13Mar3:27 pmEST

The Cactus League is Not Just for Baseball

With Major League Baseball's spring training in full swing, including the west coast Cactus League, we ought to think of another Cactus which is rather impressive in the energy patch. As one of our Members astutely noted, WHD, the ticker symbol for Cactus Wellhead, the leading manufacturer of pressure control equipment used during drilling,...