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Roku Slammed, Amazon’s Breakout, Plus Blackberry, JD, and More

[widget id=”wordads_sidebar_widget-41″] Roku Slammed, Amazon’s Breakout, Plus Blackberry, JD, and More Roku Roku shares continue to get hammered and have been downgraded twice over the past two days, with Morgan Stanley yesterday, and Citigroup today. The stock is down about 10 percent so far in 2018, and over 19 percent since hitting its high of $57.50 …

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Examining Micron, Roku, Intel Trading, Plus Dollar, Rates About To Surge

Examining Micron, Roku, Intel Trading, Plus Dollar, Rates About To Surge It looks likes the S&P 500 is gearing up for its next run higher, with just a few days left in the year. The S&P 500 has been able to fill the gap, and could now make that push over 2,700. [vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” …

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Disney, Costco, Sage, and Nvidia-Plus The Monster Week In Review

Disney, Costco, Sage, and Nvidia-Plus The Monster Week In Review [vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_tweetmeme type=”follow” follow_user=”michaelmottcm” show_followers_count=”true” large_button=”true”][/vc_column][/vc_row] This past week saw the S&P 500 continue to rally and reach new record highs, with the index up by nearly 1 percent. Technology led the charge higher with the Technology ETF ($XLK) …

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Why Roku’s Stock Is Not A Streaming Play- Plus S&P 500, Nvidia, Micron and Tech

Why Roku’s Stock Is Not A Streaming Play- Plus S&P 500 Record, Nvidia, Micron and Tech Roku’s stock continues to surge higher on calls of it being a streaming media play, however it would seem to me, to be anything but. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 continues to hit new record highs, while Nvidia and Micron …

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Tesla and Biotech’s Have Soared, While Chips and Tech Still Struggle

Tesla and Biotech’s Have Soared, While Chips and Tech Still Struggle The past couple of trading sessions have seen shares of Tesla rise from roughly $310 to $340, while biotechs have jumped from $102 to $107 on the IBB ETF.  Meanwhile, tech and chips have stabilized but are not out of the woods just yet. …

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Technology Can’t Hold Rally, As Stock Prices Continue To Fade

Technology Can’t Hold Rally, As Stock Prices Continue To Fade Watching the market the past few days has been utterly exhausting, the twist and turns, the drama. Today’s rise in technology was no victory, especially given that all the signs of strength melted into the close of trading, when stocks prices and the S&P 500 faded …

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Technology Sell-Off Continues As S&P 500 Makes Big Reversal

Technology Sell-off Continues As S&P 500 Makes Big Reversal It was another wild day on Wall Street, with the Technology S&P 500 having a huge reversal. Stocks open strongly, but Technology began to fade by mid-morning, and by the close, the S&P 500 had reversed a nearly 80 bps advance to close down by 10 bps. [vc_row css_animation=”” …

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The Week Ahead: Watching – The VIX, Nvidia, Micron, Tesla & Biotech

The Monster Week Ahead: Watching – The VIX, Nvidia, Micron, Tesla & Biotech We could see a much more relaxed market than the one we saw last week. With Tax Reform now through the Senate, the odds seem fairly good that reconciliation can produce a tax bill to be signed by the President by year-end. That …

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Technology Rotation Continues – Silver Linings Emerge

Technology Rotation Continues – Silver Linings Emerge There is no doubt that investors are getting excited about a corporate tax cut that is on the horizon. You can see it just by looking at the sector performance; it is clear as a beautiful day in Montauk on the eastern end of Long Island, overlooking the Block Island …

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Tech Wreck V2.5 – Tech Smashed as Banks Rally On Tax Reform

Tech Wreck V2.5 – Tech Smashed as Banks Rally On Tax Reform We have seen this story before, haven’t we? Tech gets smashed in one day, falling by 1 to 2 percent. It happened a number of times over the summer. So how does it work, somebody wakes up one morning and says “I think we …

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Banks And Discretionary Stocks Lead S&P 500 Higher In Race To 2,700

Banks And Discretionary Stocks Lead S&P 500 Higher In Race To 2,700 Do you believe? It would seem this market still has another leg left to go higher, with the push to 2,700 officially on.  We opined last week that hedge fund underperformance coupled with a pullback that was shallower than expected could lead to a …

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Why Nvidia, Activision, and PayPal Could Lead The Market Higher

Why Nvidia, Activision, and PayPal Could Lead The Market Higher – The Monster Week Ahead Report [vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_tweetmeme type=”follow” follow_user=”michaelmottcm” show_followers_count=”true” large_button=”true”][/vc_column][/vc_row] Get This In Your E-Mail Subscribe [widget id=”wordads_sidebar_widget-18″] The week of November 27 will be a full-trading week, so surely all market participants will be back. There are …

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Breaking Down WalMart, Micron – Plus Amazon, Apple, Biotech, SP500

Breaking Down WalMart, Micron & Amazon, Apple, Biotech, SP500- The Mott Capital Monster Week In Review [vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_tweetmeme type=”follow” follow_user=”michaelmottcm” show_followers_count=”true” large_button=”true”][/vc_column][/vc_row] Get This In Your E-Mail Subscribe [widget id=”wordads_sidebar_widget-18″] It was a short trading week, but the S&P 500 managed to put up new records, with the index …

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The Emotional Toll Of Investing

Investing Is An Emotional Ride [vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_tweetmeme type=”follow” follow_user=”michaelmottcm” show_followers_count=”true” large_button=”true”][/vc_column][/vc_row] Get This In Your E-Mail Subscribe [widget id=”wordads_sidebar_widget-18″] Investing in stocks is never an easy task with plenty of up and downs, it takes an emotional toll at times. The one thing I have learned over time is that the …

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Down The Stretch They Come – S&P 500’s Big Breakout

Why A Very Minor  Bear Turned Major Bull On The S&P 500 [vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_tweetmeme type=”follow” follow_user=”michaelmottcm” show_followers_count=”true” large_button=”true”][/vc_column][/vc_row] Get This In Your E-Mail Subscribe [widget id=”wordads_sidebar_widget-18″] What the heck is going on? That is want to know. I have been writing for days, saying the market was going lower, …

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S&P 500, Technology and Biotech Showing Weakness

S&P 500 Is Still Struggling [vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_tweetmeme type=”follow” follow_user=”michaelmottcm” show_followers_count=”true” large_button=”true”][/vc_column][/vc_row] Get This In Your E-Mail Subscribe First I wanted to give a big Thank You to MarketWatch.com for doing a write-up on our blog post from over the weekend, regarding Tesla. Tesla’s biggest news last week was not …

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Pop Goes Nvidia – The Week Ahead Highlights

The Week Ahead [vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_tweetmeme type=”follow” follow_user=”michaelmottcm” show_followers_count=”true” large_button=”true”][/vc_column][/vc_row] Get This In Your E-Mail Subscribe It will be a short trading week, with the markets closed on Thursday for Thanksgiving, and a 1 pm close on Friday. It doesn’t mean it may not be an active week, which based …

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Machines Fixed S&P 500 Rallies, Biotech Breakout, Tesla, And Inflation Watch

Turnaround Thursday- S&P 500 Surges [vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_tweetmeme type=”follow” follow_user=”michaelmottcm” show_followers_count=”true” large_button=”true”][/vc_column][/vc_row] Get This In Your E-Mail Subscribe Big time rally today in the markets, suddenly the machines are working correctly again, maybe they needed a tune-up. Today’s action in the market has been noticeably different than days past. Today, …

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The Machines Are Alive-S&P 500 Falls Again, Biotech Sector Are On The Rise

The Machines Have Runamuck [vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_tweetmeme type=”follow” follow_user=”michaelmottcm” show_followers_count=”true” large_button=”true”][/vc_column][/vc_row] Get This In Your E-Mail Subscribe More signs the machines have been reprogramed. Of course, that is a joke, right; everyone knows the machines don’t control trading, right? (sarcasm). Once again, the S&P 500 gapped lower, and failed to …

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