In the ten years between November 2008 and January 2018, Spirit AeroSystems stock surged 1373%. The rally from $7.14 to $105.20 made anyone who happened to catch even a part of it quite happy. The following two years, on the other hand, not so much. Spirit AeroSystems is down by a third in the last…
Gold ‘s Surge and US-Iran Have Little In Common
Gold climbed to a six-year high on rising tensions between the US and Iran following the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. The safe-haven asset reached $1590 earlier today as #WorldWarThree started to emerge on Twitter. We hope WWIII remains just a hashtag. In the meantime, we are once again baffled by how the media…
Linamar ‘s 2020 is Shaping up to be a Great Year
Founded in 1966, Linamar Corp. is the second-largest automobile parts manufacturer in Canada. The stock is listed in Toronto and had an exceptionally strong run between 2009 and 2015. In a little over six years, the share price rose from as low as C$2 to as high as C$89.42. That’s 88.4% compounded annually. Unfortunately for…
Fibonacci Support Helps Copper Bulls Gain Control
Yesterday, we shared our bullish stance on Freeport-McMoran stock. But of course, Freeport-McMoran is pretty much a pure copper play. Therefore, in order for the stock to climb, the price of copper must climb, as well. Similarly to Freeport stock, the price of copper rose between 2016 and 2018 and has been declining for the…
2020 to Bring Long-Awaited Relief to Freeport Investors
It’s been a rough couple of years for U.S.-based copper miner Freeport-McMoran. The stock reached $20.25 a share in the first month of 2018. Now, in the last month of 2019, FCX is hovering around $12.10. Despite the significant recovery from as low as $8.43 in October, the stock is still down 40% since January…
GBPCAD Can Reach 1.9000 Before the Bears Return
GBPCAD bulls have been on a roll the past four months. The pair is currently trading above 1.7330, up 9.1% from its early-August low of 1.5875. And while the Forex market is not the place to rely on a trend for very long, it is not uncommon for GBPCAD to make large moves in either…
Ubiquiti Can Dive in a 50% Elliott Wave Correction
Headquartered in New York, Ubiquiti Inc. is a communication equipment manufacturer with a market cap of ~$13 billion. The stock is up 85% since its late-August low and is now trading in the vicinity of $200 a share. Understandably, such sharp and fast rallies easily attract people’s attention. Extrapolation of the past into the future…
Home Capital: Third Wave Lifts Stock 140% in 2019
Home Capital Group is up 17.4% in Toronto today following the company’s third quarter financial report. The mortgage lender beat analysts’ earnings expectations and delivered improvements in other areas, too. In total, HCG is up ~140% in 2019. But things didn’t look so rosy at the beginning of the year. The stock was hovering in…
HollyFrontier Concluding a Bearish Elliott Wave Cycle
HollyFrontier Corp. is an independent petroleum refiner with a market cap of roughly $8.8 billion. The stock reached an all-time high of $83.28 a share in June 2018. By late-May 2019, it was barely able to hold above $37, losing nearly 55% in just one year. However, HFC recovered significantly in the last four months.…
NVR Stock Vulnerable to a 50% Elliott Wave Correction
NVR Inc. constructs and sells single-family detached homes, townhomes and condominium buildings. NVR stock is up by ~1100% since March 2009, climbing from $310 to roughly $3700 a share. Not bad for a company operating in one of the hardest hit sectors during the Financial Crisis. However, NVR stock lost 67% between July 2005 and…
Realty Income Pattern Sets the Stage for a 40% Drop
Realty Income Corp. is a REIT dedicated to delivering dependable monthly dividends to investors. The company owns over 5900 real estate properties and has a market value of roughly $23.5 billion. Adjusted for splits, it went public in 1994 at $8 and reached an all-time high of $76.73 two days ago. Not counting the dividends,…
GBPAUD Elliott Wave Setup Supports the Bears
Between July 30th and August 26th, GBPAUD managed to recover from 1.7561 to 1.8337. Despite the no-deal Brexit prospects, the Australian dollar turned out to be even weaker than its British rival for almost a month. However, GBPAUD is down by roughly 400 pips since August 26th. Traders are probably wondering if this is a…
Crude Oil Bears Needed a Spark. Trump Threw a Bomb
The price of crude oil recorded its biggest daily decline in four years Thursday after President Trump threatened to impose new tariffs on $300 billion worth of Chinese goods. The U.S.-China trade war has been unfolding during most of Trump’s presidency. With the 2020 elections approaching, many thought a trade deal might be in the…
Pandora ‘s Jewelry Hasn’t Lost Its Shine
According to Pandora A/S’ 2017 annual report, the Copenhagen-based company is the “leader in the affordable jewelry segment and the largest producer of jewelry worldwide in terms of pieces crafted.” That leading position paired with double digit average earnings growth in recent years convinced many investors the company was a one-way ticket to riches. So, they…
Dare to Guess the Best Stock Market Index of 2019?
The first half of 2019 saw stock market indices around the globe rebound sharply. In the U.S., NASDAQ, DJIA and the S&P 500 are up 22.7%, 14.8% and 18.9% since the start of the year, respectively. In Europe, the German DAX and France’s CAC 40 both climbed 17.8%, UK’s FTSE 100 surged by 12% and…
