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A Look At 3 Hostile Takeovers In Recent History

A hostile takeover attempt provides incentives for CEOs and the board to manage companies while aligning with the interests of shareholders. If a company is run poorly or inefficiently, the value of its shares will fall relative to other stocks in the industry. At that point it can be rewarding for another company, an individual, […]

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How the US Weaponized the Dollar Against Russia

  The US and NATO’s response to the Russia/Ukraine war has upended the post-WWII global order we’ve all gotten used to. And nobody really knows if that’s permanent or temporary. Many strategists and analysts are talking about how this reaction is accelerating deglobalization, where countries get more isolated and trade less in favor of onshoring […]

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Consecutive GREEN DAY

Market Overview for the Week of April 11, 2022

Continued weakness in broad market price action this week. While the price setup in the S&P 500 still leans bullish with the bull flag setting up on the daily chart, some air is definitely being taken out of the vicious “wall of worry” rally.  Perhaps it’s par for the course at this point, but we’re […]

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Basis Points

Basis Points: What Are They and How Are They Used?

Like many other professionals, the world of finance and investing has a wide list of industry-specific lingo that can be difficult to decipher for everyday investors and traders. One of the most common terms you will come across on Wall Street is “basis points,” which is an important unit of measurement used to describe and […]

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How Technical Traders Can Benefit From Quantitative Analysis

Technical trading is such a diverse method of trading that you really can’t pigeonhole it. There’s trend traders, mean reversion traders, breakout traders, and pullback traders. You can trade support and resistance levels, forecast volume and volatility, or even do technical analysis on the VIX or the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet (maybe that’s not a […]

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Elon Musk +9.2% Stake in Twitter

  So news out, Elon Musk has accumulated a 9.2% stake in Twitter. And when I first saw it I thought, okay, I had seen the headlines, I guess, it was last week where he was making posts about is a new platform needed, and interpreted that as a new social media platform.   He […]

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Market Overview for Week of April 4, 2022

Meme stocks are back and yet again. After months of commentators creating narratives that the retail phenomenon experienced in 2020 and 2021 was simply aberration, often citing exchange volume data as proof, have yet again been dashed as this small group of stocks like GameStop (GME), and AMC Entertainment (AMC) and a sub-group of related […]

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