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Financial markets skated through September unscathed. The start of an interest rate cut cycle allowed stock to break higher in ...
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FX Evolution: You Won’t Believe What Tom Lee Thinks Will Happen Next!

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Lead-Lag Live: Mike Green on ETF Innovation, Passive Investing Risks, and the Future of Alternative Assets

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Trading Titans Podcast: Volmagedom Lessons from the Crash

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A Wealth of Common Sense: Talk Your Book: Quality Growth Investing

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Markets have caught a bit of a break from their selloff that kicked off August. And economic data, such as ...
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Of Dollars and Data: The Sustainable Path is the Only Path

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Elliott Wave Options: Buy the Rumor, Sell the News on Rate Cuts!

Investors have had to exercise extreme patience over the past few years. First, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates over ...
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FX Evolution: This Rare Signal Has Flashed Again for Stocks…

Some rare market signals are kicking off as stocks continue to break to new all-time highs. Market breadth is improving ...
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Elliott Wave Options: Elliott Wave Targets for S&P 500 Melt-Up!

Stocks haven’t just been trending higher in recent weeks. The S&P 500 had a hard time breaking through 5,500. Once ...
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Elliott Wave Options: Pro Trader Tip: Follow Your Trading Plan and Manage Your Losses!

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Tastylive: Stay Profitable During Low Volatility with This Strategy

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FX Evolution: Retail Investors Are Getting Squeezed Again

Following the market’s selloff and bounce higher, investors may think that markets are back in bull market mode. With companies ...
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We Study Billionaires: Making Smarter Decisions & Why Great Investors Are Great Quitters

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Elliott Wave Options: Follow Your Trading Plan!

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Tastylive: 0DTE’s: How to Maximize Profits

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FX Evolution: Is This the Beginning of Something Big…

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Tastylive: When Volatility Is High Use this Strategy

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Data Driven Investor: Play the Probabilities to Win in the Stock Market

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The D&O Diary: Thinking About Warren Buffett’s Latest Letter to Berkshire Shareholders

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Tastylive: If You’re Losing Money with Fundamental Analysis, This is Why

Investing involves trade-offs. The decision to buy one stock means not buying another. Or an asset class. So on some ...
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FX Evolution: Is Everyone Missing THIS…

Markets may be making a shift this week. Over the past 18 months, there have been six-month periods of strength ...
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Tastylive: 3 Methods to Test if You’ll Blow Up Your Portfolio

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The Compound and Friends: How to Find the Biggest Winners

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FX Evolution: The Best Stocks Are Not Leading

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Elliott Wave Investor: Positive Signals 460 Remains a Key Level

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FX Evolution: Secret Market Volatility Starts to Spike?

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The Compound and Friends: Things That Never Change With Morgan Housel

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Thoughtful Money: 2024 “Going To Be A Lot Worse” For Markets as Tech Stocks Implode

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Tastylive: Call vs Put Selling – This Strategy Wins 81% of Trades

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Bigger Pockets: The 3 “Lies” You Can’t Afford to Tell Yourself in This Market

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David Lin: Markets Bottom, Expect ‘Strong Rally’ Next, Then 50% Crash

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Chart Advisor: Classifying SPY’s Lower Lows

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CBOE: Evaluating the Market Impact of SPX 0DTE Options

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FX Evolution: Hedge Funds Are Selling Stocks Again…

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Validea: What Kobe Bryant’s Mantra of “Never Get Bored With the Basics” Can Teach Investors

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Elm Wealth: A Closer Look at “Cut Your Losses Early; Let Your Profits Run”

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Clyde Prestowitz: Cheap May Be Expensive

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Traders’ Insight: Risk Premium Plummets

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Tastylive: The Last Time Markets Looked Like This, Volatility SPIKED

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Tastylive: Time to Trade Less?

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Tastylive: The Most Important Number in Options Trading

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Game of Trades: A Credit Crunch is Inevitable in 2023

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Game of Trades: This Warned the SP500 Bull Traps in 2008 and 2001

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The Big Picture: William Cohan

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New Money: Charlie Munger’s Warning for Investors in 2023

Inflation remains high but is coming down. Interest rates are at their highest level in over a decade and continue ...
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Game of Trades: Speculation Is Going to Lead to Pain in the Stock Market in 2023

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Contrarian Edge: Why We’re Not Celebrating the Vindication of Our Investing Principles

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Elliott Wave Trader: PPI Report: Inflation Still High!

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Game of Trades: We Are not Even Close to Real Bear Market Capitulation

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The Intellectual Investor: Why Value Investing Requires Thoughtful Arrogance

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Elliott Wave Options: Earnings Reports Lift Markets… S&P Wave 4?

There are many ways to look at markets and market trends. Elliott Waves are a technical strategy that identify a ...
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Game of Trades: We Haven’t Seen This Since the Dot-com Bust

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Dividend Freedom: 5 Dividend Stocks I Just Purchased

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One of the best performing stocks over the past decade has been Netflix (NFLX). But year-to-date, it’s been one of ...
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Of Dollars And Data: How to Not Panic

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One of the biggest stories for investors in the past few weeks has been the inverted yield curve. As Investopedia ...
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Volatility Could Be the Best Trade in the Markets Right Now

The yield curve inverted and that led to a scramble among analysts to forecast the implications. The most obvious implication ...
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Some investors love turnarounds. That makes recent price moves in Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) potentially appealing. It’s been almost ...
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This Market Expert Says Be Careful With Yields

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Warren Buffett is widely followed because he has delivered a long record of successful investments. Not all of Buffett’s investments ...
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This Could Be the Perfect Trade to Prepare for the Market Correction

In case any investor forgot, prices go both up or down. This was a lesson brought home to investors in ...
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Trade the Dogs of the Dow Strategy for 2019

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Monetary Theory Is Suddenly Important to Investors

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