Black Monday and The Black Swan
Monday, October 19, 1987, is a day I will never forget. The Mighty Dow crashed 508 points, 22.6%! It was a day of chaos and panic, but no surprise. I was test-marketing the VectorVest Stock Advisory at that time and our trustworthy VV DJIA warned us that the Dow was 19.4% overvalued when it closed at an all-time high of [...]
June Update to VectorVest 7
Version 1.32 Summer is nearly here and so is the next VectorVest 7 update! This updates adds some new features to the Portfolio Genius (available in Paper Portfolios and RoboTrader!) Purchasing Window The new Purchasing Window setting allows you to setup your Portfolio Genius to purchase stocks only during specified times. Want to wait till 10 AM before buying new [...]
Beware of Marketing Machines
The mission of VectorVest Inc., is to “Provide the best stock market guidance available anywhere at any price.” To give you an example of this, I’d like to share a recent experience of how we compare to one of the biggest players in the business. Earlier this week, I received an email from a service I subscribe to which said, [...]
Creative Destruction
It wasn’t a coincidence or happenstance that one day after I wrote last Friday’s essay about Amazon.com, (AMZN), Investor’s Business Daily, IBD, published a front page article entitled, “The Death of Retail.” Why did that happen? The common thread between VectorVest and IBD is that we publish information for stock investors, and one of the best ways to make money [...]
Flying High
Amazon, AMZN, hit an all-time intraday high of $923.72 per share on Wednesday, April 5, 2017. It became public on May 15, 1997 at $18.00 per share, $1.50 per share after three stock splits. That’s a gain of 61,481% in less than 20 years. What a ride! We can examine this amazing ride by looking at a VectorVest Simple, End [...]
VectorVest Wins Readers’ Choice Awards in Stocks & Commodities Magazine
We here at VectorVest are delighted to inform everyone that VectorVest has been selected by the readers of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine as the recipient of 11 of this year’s Stocks & Commodities Readers’ Choice Awards. Special thanks to our subscribers and the readers of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine for their support and for [...]