Author: Philip Davis

So, the market is awful…just downright awful. Here is how awful it is. Imagine a company has the following economic data points on their earnings report: beat EPS estimates by 0.03, profits doubled from one year ago, beat...

We finally blew our levels! Sadly, it’s time to flip bearish until we can retake our watch levels at Dow 10,200, S&P 1,070, Nas 2,200, NYSE 6,800, and Russell 635.  If we can’t retake at least 2 of them today, we may be...

Last week was quite atrocious for the markets, but we managed to come out of it pretty unscathed. This week, we will be looking to continue our successes, starting with today’s Play of the Week and Overnight Trade. We finished...

Bond funds are attracting cash like stocks during the dot-com boom. That’s the headline this morning on Bloomberg, who says: “The amount of money flowing into bond funds is poised to exceed the cash that went into stock...

In uncertain markets, dividends can give you a critical investing edge. As you can see from the chart on the left, just mindlessly investing in dividend-paying stocks can give you more than a 2:1 annual advantage in your...

Professor William Domhoff has updated his excellent study of wealth distribution in America and the results are just as sickening than they were in 2005! We looked at the uneven distribution of incomes when I wrote “The...

TGIF! I can’t complain, though, because we had a very solid week. We continued this week’s success yesterday with an Overnight Trade in Verigy Ltd. (VRGY). The company killed earnings yesterday evening, with an EPS of 0.22 vs....