So, how do you pick a stock to trade? The first rule of thumb is to ignore the market darling, the crowded trade, the stock that is front and center on every finance website. Because by the time you are reading about it, the trade is over, topped out, done. Let it go, man. These are special situations that can…
Silver just hit a two-year high and is close to breaking out above a five-year high. Things like oil, gold, and copper are undervalued and looking for a reversal to the mean. This trend could continue as the market broadens out from the Big Seven. The question you have to ask yourself is how do you play it. I like silver…
The ticker for the Russell 2000, which is the bottom 2000 stocks of the Russell 3000 index, is RUT. RUT is an index of small- and medium-sized companies with a mean market cap of $900 million. Traditionally, it performs better than large blue-chip stocks but that hasn’t been the case of late. Investors have been chasing the “Magnificent Seven” stocks…