Nicholas Vardy
Moving Back into the Mother of All Blue Chips
This week’s Alpha Algorithm revisits a previous blue-chip recommendation, AT&T, Inc. (T). Last time, you booked an 11.26% gain on this stock after it hit its stop price on a market pullback. And it has only gotten more popular among the Alpha strategies since then. Founded in 1983 and based in Dallas, Texas, AT&T Inc. […]
Cleaning Up Your Portfolio and Adjusting Your Stops
It was a mixed week for U.S. stock markets, with the Dow Jones down 0.87% and the S&P 500 pulling back 0.56%. The NASDAQ eked out a 0.54% gain. The MCSI Emerging Markets Index ended the week essentially where it started. Big gainers in your Alpha Investor Letter portfolio included Illumina Inc. (ILMN), which jumped […]
Why Investors Shouldn’t Bet on the World Ending Today
Global investing expert Nicholas Vardy offers his take on why you shouldn’t bet on the world ending, in terms of the market, anytime soon.
This Value Play Is Set to Soar Higher
Last week was a mixed one for stock markets, with the Dow Jones down 0.75%, the S&P 500 falling 0.07% and the NASDAQ gaining 1.22%. The MCSI Emerging Markets Index eked out a 0.65% rise. Big gainers in your Bull Market Alert portfolio included B&G Foods Inc. (BGS), which shot up 8.89%, and The TJX Companies, […]
Booking Option Gain of 22.92%
As I wrote in yesterday’s Alpha Algorithm, I am treating the current market with an abundance of caution. The market is technically overbought and we are entering August, which is traditionally a difficult month for the markets. I also noted that I am taking all opportunities to close out existing option positions that expire in […]
Booking Double-Digit Percentage Option Gains and Cleaning up Your Portfolio
With the markets entering August — one of the most difficult months of the year — the Alpha Algorithm generated no new names this week with a sufficiently high number of alpha strategies for me to make a new recommendation. So this week, I want to highlight a couple of recommendations that relate to your […]