I got to thinking the other day about the parallels of cycling (my beloved sport) and investing. Both of these ventures involve a degree of risk. The risk of investing is loss of capital. The risk of cycling is injury or even loss of life. In both cases, we can take precautions to make sure Read More
Assessing the Flying Five & implications for the market
A while ago I wrote a Halloween blog. It covered some of the historic anomalies that have occurred on the stock market this year. Here is the blog. One of the observations I made was that the markets breadth has been narrow. That is, there has been a lack of broad participation by the stocks Read More
FANG’s for the memories!
Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google are affectionately referred to as the FANG group of stocks. They, as a group, appear to be taking over the world…but not in bad way! We at ValueTrend own Google, and we must confess that we look for entry (and sometimes exit points if we own them) on these stocks Read More