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This was originally posted by James Clear, of jamesclear.com ———————————- Warren Buffett’s “2 List” Strategy for Focused Attention by James Clear

For two weeks the market has somewhat been sounding the alarms that market breadth was weak and a forceful rally was not in the cards. Long term the market was in good shape, and I had no reason to believe stocks wouldn’t continue up into 2019, but in the near-to-intermediate term, there just wasn’t the […]

There’s a common path to proficiency in many fields. It doesn’t matter if you’re pursuing trading, chess, law, medicine, computer programming or entertainment.

This is LB Weekly – our weekly report, which covers the trends and the staying power of the trends. It is part of a LeavittBrothers.com subscription or can be subscribed to by itself at LeavittBrothers.net.

This is LB Weekly – our weekly report, which covers the trends and the staying power of the trends. It is part of a LeavittBrothers.com subscription or can be subscribed to by itself at LeavittBrothers.net.

There are three simple steps to being wildly profitable as a trader. The steps aren’t easy, but they are simple. The steps are: 1) Find your sweet spot. 2) Practice – get good at it. 3) Size up.

Despite the rebound off the August low and the bounce attempts in November and December, I haven’t liked this market since last summer. These issues have been discussed at Leavitt Brothers for several months, so it’s time to summarize everything in one place.

The indexes are mostly dominated by large cap stocks that trade lots of volume, so it’s possible for a small number of big companies to paint the index charts different than what’s really going on beneath the surface. The internals, or market breadth, tell us what’s going on behind the scenes. The S&P 500 may […]

The flow of money tells us investor’s risk appetite. When more money flows into safe, large caps that have long track records, it’s a sign investors are looking for safety. They’re less concerned with making money and more concerned with not losing. When money flows into riskier small caps that have much higher upside, but […]

Rates are going up, perhaps slowly, but still going up. Lower rates didn’t help the general public, but they definitely helped corporate America.