Smarter Investing

Why Q2 earnings surprised on the upside.

Outlook

We’ve got the beat: 62% of firms top forecasts in …

Drama aside, Dell is a quality tech stock

Why Dell is still a well-positioned technology company.

Strategies

Drama aside, Dell is a quality tech stock

Stock market is up but may take a pause soon

Market may be heading for a 4% to 6% decline later this year.

Strategies

Stock market is up but may take a pause soon

Munger's investment track record is worth study.

Strategies

Investing lessons from Charlie Munger

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have no shortage of critics.

Outlook

Google haters gonna hate

The FDA’s rejection of Aveo's Tivozanib is a stunner.

Strategies

Aveo: Anatomy of a trade gone wrong

Investment yields look better overseas than in the US.

Strategies

Here’s why we’re defensive on stocks

Japan's outstanding debt level just blew by the quadrillion yen mark.

Outlook

A quadrillion reasons Japan is in trouble

How my contrarian bet on Facebook paid off

I bought Facebook betting investors had become overly pessimistic.

Strategies

How my contrarian bet on Facebook paid off

I’m still shorting mid-term volatility futures

Volatility has historically shown to be a mean-reverting asset class.

Strategies

I’m still shorting mid-term volatility futures

Stock splits and the wealth illusion.

Outlook

Priceline: Can a stock get too expensive for its own …

Our strategy is ready for more volatile market waters

The Volatility and Tactical Opportunity portfolio aims to benefit from the up and down swings of market volatility. Volatility, as measured by the VIX, tends to be mean reverting over time (when volatility goes down, it will have a tendency to climb higher in the very short term). When volatility […]

Strategies