Earnings season began in earnest last week, with major financial companies being rewarded and helping to lead the market higher. It's one of four time periods during the year when publicly traded companies share their earnings results so that investors can get a sense of the financial health... READ MORE
Most of you who read my blog know the name of our service is EarningsBeats.com. The name makes sense since, for many years during the bull market, we've zeroed in on those companies that beat earnings expectations that could be prime long candidates. Fast forward to today... READ MORE
First, I'd like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 2018 has been a wild ride with volatility returning to extreme levels. Unfortunately, 2019 looks like it will get even worse. I believe we're in a bear market and, at EarningsBeats.com,... READ MORE
The market finally found its legs last week after the Fed signaled they might slow down their interest rate-raising campaign. In fact, after being technically wounded for some time, all of the major indexes closed back above their respective 20-day moving averages, with the Dow clearing its 200 day as... READ MORE
The quarter beginning 10-1-18 has been challenging for a lot of traders. The NASDAQ has lost almost 10% while the S&P has lost 6%, both well off the quarter's low. Volatility has reigned with the VIX at elevated levels for most of the quarter. It has... READ MORE
We're deep into earnings season, which means patient traders can put themselves into a position to profit handsomely. The process starts by identifying those companies that beat earnings expectations and gap up sharply on strong volume, because these are the types of stocks that traders will be watching... READ MORE
The market has been under fire for the past two weeks. Volatility has spiked. Traders have bailed as they've sold on rallies. Bad news is bad news. Good news is bad news. No one wants to touch stocks! We can take a look at Netflix as a great... READ MORE
We're approaching another earnings season, setting up trading opportunities in the normally bullish fourth quarter. While we favor waiting to see quarterly earnings reports and the market's reaction to those reports, we also know many of you try to trade companies prior to their better-than-expected reports.... READ MORE
The bulls have remained in charge for a long time now in large part due to continuing, strong earnings. Even with the constant daily noise surrounding the market it almost always comes down to the bottom line. Thus when traders are looking for high reward to risk trades it makes... READ MORE
Here's a fact: Traders gravitate towards companies that beat earnings expectations. Why? Because they know they are putting their money to work in companies that outperform. Here's another fact. MANY companies that report and beat earnings expectations often gap up - move higher - on positive... READ MORE
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Traders have been waiting patiently for Q2 earnings season to begin and now they need to wait no longer. Already we've heard from some of the largest banks in the world and on Tuesday we heard from EBAY, who came up short and then Thursday from one of... READ MORE
The market has been in stall mode for quite some time now. Even though the S&P perked up some on Friday it's still hanging out near levels seen in early January, going nowhere fast.At the same time the market has had all kinds of reasons... READ MORE
I have found over many years of trading that it is so much more difficult to make money shorting stocks than going long. With the exception of the Dot.com bubble between 2000-2002 and the bear market of 2008-2009 during the Great Recession we've been in a bull... READ MORE
At EarningsBeats we issue long/short trade alerts on companies that beat/miss earnings expectations. When we issue a trade alert we include entry price, target price and stop loss. Stop losses are based upon key technical or price support, so they matter. We continuously emphasize the importance of honoring... READ MORE
The S&P hit its all time high of 2872 on January 26, less than 4 months. ago. Two weeks later, on February 9, it touched 2532, having fallen almost 12% before recovering some. But since then the bulls have struggled to make progress with the S&P... READ MORE
Analysts will tell you that this earnings season has been a great success. In fact, many companies exceeded earnings expectations and were handsomely rewarded by the market. However, there were also plenty of companies that missed earnings expectations and/or provided worse than expected guidance, taking those stocks lower, and... READ MORE
Anytime we issue a trade alert to members at EarningsBeats it must carry a minimum reward to risk of at least 2 to 1. In fact we rarely consider getting involved in a trade unless the potential reward to risk is at least 3 to 1 or higher. The concept... READ MORE
Earnings season is about to get underway with thousands of companies scheduled to report their Q1 numbers. It's an exciting time each quarter when companies are rewarded or punished depending on their results. It's always interesting to watch how traders react to a specific earnings report... READ MORE
If there's one thing I've learned over my many years trading in the market, it's to avoid chasing a stock, especially if it's overbought. This might seem like an obvious strategy but many traders are drawn to those stocks that are ascending... READ MORE
Most analysts would agree that overall, 2017 Q4 earnings were superb. For quite a while we saw one company after another beat earnings expectations and they were rewarded for those results as well. But recently, as the market has come under fire, responses to many earnings reports have been brutal.... READ MORE
I'm sure most traders get tired of being told to be patient when the market or a specific stock is climbing day after day. Missing out on nice rallies can be extremely frustrating. But if there ever was a time when patience paid off big time it was... READ MORE
Traders who are "all in" on the long side hate days like this past Friday when the market got slammed big time, with the Dow down 2.6%, the NASDAQ down 2.1% and the S&P down 2%, the worst overall showing in two years. And... READ MORE
Earnings season is about to kick into high gear. Over the next few weeks thousands of companies will report their numbers. Some will beat expectations and some will disappoint. And some will present some great opportunities to make nice money, especially for those of you who are patient enough to... READ MORE
Ultimately, the U.S. stock market lives and dies by the performance of its economy and how that translates into earnings growth of U.S. companies. Nearly every economic report that we've seen of late has been strong or strengthening. The number of companies that are performing well... READ MORE
This may sound way too easy, but successful traders manage risk. They don't care about losing money on trades that don't work. They exit those trades and put their capital to work in a better trade. Many trading services will try to WOW you with a... READ MORE
'Tis the season and I'd first like to wish everyone a happy holiday season. To health, happiness and prosperity! Feel free to sing along.... "We've made our (Chart)List we've checked it twice but we won't buy stocks at any... READ MORE
One by-product of focusing on stocks that beat earnings handily is the opportunity to boost overall returns. I know this for a fact as we studied the performance of almost 40 stocks that were trade alerts to EarningsBeats members over the past six months and found that on a risk... READ MORE
Earnings Season is winding down. So far it's been quite positive. How do I know? Just look at the overall market. We certainly saw strong earnings from the tech giants including Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. In fact all of these are ripe for nice trades IF you... READ MORE
Earnings season is in full swing now and so far so good. How do I know this? All you have to do is look at the overall market reaction. And it doesn't hurt when a giant tech company left for dead knocks it out of the park. Take... READ MORE
They say how time flies; and it's true, especially from one earnings season to another, and starting this week we're going to start hearing from thousands of companies as they release their numbers. And boy, there's nothing traders and longer term investors care about... READ MORE
One of the benefits of technical analysis is being able to look at a chart to help determine if a stock is a viable trading candidate. In other words, what does a technician see in a chart that would lead to the conclusion that a specific stock is or isn&... READ MORE
Q2 earnings season has come and gone and traders liked what they heard and saw. This is the primary reason the market has come to life, in spite of some things going on out there that might normally spook the market. For those of you out there who don'... READ MORE
As earnings season winds down traders are going to be looking for new reasons to be long the market. So far, according to Thompson's Reuters, 460 of the companies represented in the S&P 500 have reported earnings with almost 74% beating expectations. This is 10% above... READ MORE
Everyone likes a good meal, especially an all you can eat buffet. And if you are a trader, you've just been served up an earnings smorgasboard. So far, per Thomson Reuters, over 400 companies in the S&P have reported for Q2, 2017, with almost 73% beating... READ MORE
Q2 Earnings Season is underway with 4 of the nations largest banks reporting their numbers Friday and thousands of companies getting ready to report over the next few weeks. Earnings season brings with it both the highs and lows of trading. We'll see companies that beat expectations and... READ MORE
The market moved into a rare funk last week as traders decided in unison to take profits, especially in the tech heavy NASDAQ. This is quite understandable with all three of the major indexes hitting record levels during the month of June. There are various theories as to why stocks... READ MORE
If you are looking for ways to manage risk in an increasingly volatile environment then you should start by searching for the "best of the best"; those companies that beat earnings expectations and have solid charts. This makes an awful lot of sense if you think about it;... READ MORE
The market has been on fire lately with all of the major indexes hitting all time highs. In spite of some recent weak economic reports, including a miss on Friday's jobs report, and in spite of all of the political "noise" swirling around, stocks have powered... READ MORE
Anyone who trades the market on a regular basis knows how important it is to use whatever tools are available to make important decisions. This includes using charts to determine the strength/weakness of a specific stock, sector or index, zeroing in on key price and technical support/resistance levels... READ MORE