Five Star Stock Watch

A circuit breaker is an automatic, temporary trading halt on certain securities when the underlying stock is experiencing times of high volatility. It is a measure put in place to help restore and bring order to the markets. Here are the stocks halted on a circuit breaker today, and the news that...

A trait of a good investor is being able to select high-probability assets regardless of the asset name. This means having a proven analysis process that filters out the investment opportunities with the highest chance of returning a profit while staying 100% detached from the asset names....

What Happened: According to recent SEC filings, Fidelity Investments’ Wise Origin Bitcoin Index Fund I, LP, has raised $102 million from affluent investors over the past nine months. The fund is a passively-managed investment vehicle that is managed by Chief Strategist Peter Jubber and...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL), the two companies jockeying for the  prize of "largest market cap company in the world" are both incredibly successful businesses, with unparalleled cash machines (the iPhone and Google Search) at their core. That said,...

Breakouts. Everybody wants them, but not everyone can find them. Stocks that break through key levels of resistance are usually sending a signal that higher prices are coming. Many a great run started at the point of a strong resistance breakout point. The difficulty for most investors and...

It’s probably not a surprise that the market has been going through a rough patch. The news wire is full of negative headlines. Greece is finally defaulting. China’s stock market is crashing non-stop. The Fed may or may not be raising rates this year. All the while, the U...

Some traders like to gamble on big news events that could have a dramatic effect on a particular stock. For example, the release of a company’s earnings report could cause an underlying stock to jump to new highs or drop to significant lows. While this may not interest all investors, it does...

The S&P 500 has been declining slowly over the last month. The Nasdaq Composite has as well, and let’s not even discuss the carnage that has been the Dow Jones Transportation Average. Biotechnology has been one of the top industries for quite sometime, and it had been weathering this...

Although it has edged slightly higher, the S&P 500 has essentially stalled over the last couple of months. The Nasdaq has been hitting a ceiling at 5100 over that same period of time. However, some industries (transports) have broken much lower, while other industries (biotechnology) have...

The S&P 500 has stalled over the last month. The Nasdaq and Dow Jones Industrials haven’t fared any better. However, there does seem to be signs that the market is preparing for a breakout to the upside. For the S&P, the 2120 area is the mark for investors and traders to watch....

The S&P 500 has rallied to new all-time highs over the past week, while the Nasdaq Composite has pulled back a bit. When the Nasdaq sells off it has become commonplace that biotech stocks sell off as well. Although the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (NASDAQ: IBB), which can be a great...

The S&P 500 may have pulled back earlier this week, but the Nasdaq Composite did not. The tech heavy index closed within just a few points of a new bull market high. It might not be too surprising then that most biotech stocks also rallied. Some biotechs, such as Bluebird Bio (NASDAQ: BLUE...

As most market participants already know, earnings season is now underway. Whether one is an investor or trader, trading stocks or options, a company's earnings release can be very profitable for some, while detrimental to others. Although all sectors and industries are under the...