A stock can look incredibly strong on a daily chart while still being trapped inside a six-month downtrend. Another stock may appear boring over the last few weeks but sit inside a powerful long-term uptrend […]
Category: Momentum Strategy
A rising stock price tells you that buyers are winning. It does not necessarily tell you why they are winning. Sometimes the move is supported by improving sales, stronger margins, positive earnings surprises, and analysts […]
Momentum trading sounds wonderfully simple: find stocks moving strongly, buy the leaders, and stay with the trend until it weakens. Real markets are considerably messier. A stock can break above resistance on Monday and reverse […]
The strongest stock in the market is not always the one with the biggest one-day gain. A stock can jump 15% after an earnings announcement and then spend the next three months going nowhere. Meanwhile, […]
Buying stocks simply because their prices have already risen sounds almost too easy. Yet momentum has remained one of the most researched anomalies in financial markets for decades. The basic idea is that stocks performing […]