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In this chapter, the author discusses the finance industry’s tendency to label fund managers as either growth or value. Value stocks tend to have low P/E and P/B ratios, while growth stocks can be said to be in favour due...

March has come in like a lion for equity investors, as the stock market sank to 12-year lows in the first few days of trading this month. Rallies will be greeted with high hopes, but during March, I don’t see a major shift in...

Proponents of protectionist measures will often point to the US trade deficit as proof that the US is losing jobs to cheaper overseas labour. Articles in the popular media will often sensationalize the US trade deficit figures...

Headline employment numbers have been awful lately. The US economy shed 600,000 jobs in January of 2009. But certain labour groups have fared fairly well despite the downturn. Understanding how can help us set policies that can...

Today’s column on Barron’s Online is about sentiment but not the traditional kind using the VIX, put/call ratios and the like. In keeping with the theme of “technical tools are not working as we expect”...

Trade Idea: Consider a November Soybean $10/$12 Call Spread. The stock market has broken down to its lowest levels in over a decade, and everyone is wondering what comes next. On Monday, March 2, 2009, nearly every other asset...

POWER TRENDS!I wanted to discuss and show today a powerful example of what exactly we define as a “Power Trend”. Profit Edge Trading plays these powerful setups in the market when they occur, and through our analysis...

Hi Mark, I was wondering if you have any thoughts about pairs trading? [An investment strategy that seeks to identify two companies with similar characteristics whose stocks are currently trading at a price relationship that is...