Baidu the growth momentum stock
Baidu (BIDU) just presented their quarterly earnings and beat the consensus nicely. The market responded accordingly and Baidu gapped up. The gap signals times of increased volatility may lie ahead. The long-term chart shows a phenomenal growth over the last years. Bottom (pink) and top (orange) line have been the dream of a growth investor […]
True growth stocks
Cirrus Logic (CRUS) just made a new multiyear high. During the last quarters it got dragged up by Apple, its biggest customer. Apple’s success is also Cirrus’ current advantage, as it delivers chips that get assembled into Apple’s gadget devices. The dark side of this symbiosis is Apple’s tendency to replace component suppliers for each […]
Trend investing with growth stocks
Investors are at times the opposite of traders. Real trend traders use a stop and investors don’t. All right, stopping out of a position that was bought on value considerations makes no sense. But, why don’t investors ignore that there are trends? Some even like to do counter trend trading. That’s the sort of thing […]
Day trading for growth stock investing
Growth stocks are probably the best trend producers there are. To judge this question it is important to be clear about hindsight and anticipation. In hindsight you will always find a better trend with a better story and better profit opportunities. The trading problem is how to do it before the matter of fact. The […]
Index trading of growth stocks
Growth stocks have one severe advantage for trend traders. They have a trend with a reason behind it. Of course, every trend has its reasons, but for growth stocks the reason for their trend is obvious and analyzable. Trend trading seems to be so easy, but in reality many trends flatten out, flutter or reverse […]
Swing trading of growth stocks
Growth stocks are at the core of the stock market. They are the final legitimation of the stock markets and they are or should be central to wise investor’s operations. But are they also for traders so important? From day trading to arbitrage, there are all sorts of trading styles possible, so why just concentrate […]
Trading the trend of a growth stock
Constructing one of the best trend trading systems may be achieved by combining what is good on its own for trend following. If the technical side, the trend in a chart, is aligned with the fundamental part, an uptrend of earnings and revenues, the odds increase for the trend trader. Either the trend price pattern […]
Relative strength and growth stocks
Trends should be smooth to be trends. If an upwards move is swinging, chances are the price is only moving by random in one direction without the constant driving force that forms a trend. In other words, the chartist has spotted a trend where none is. In the moment the chartist becomes a trader and […]
Triple trend of a growth stock
Trend trading is easy, but just in hindsight when you take a good looking chart and happily say that one should have entered here and exited there. As soon as one tries that in reality, trends astonishingly don’t run further after the position got established. This is a bit harsh, but it has more than […]
