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This is the daily discussion, so anything stocks related is fine, but the theme for today is on technical analysis (TA), but if TA is not your thing then just ignore the theme. Some helpful day to day links, including news: Finviz for charts, fundamentals, and aggregated news on individual stocks Bloomberg market news StreetInsider…

All, So for instance but not limited to, take Visa and mastercard. Visa has had better margins than mastercard, meaning they do a better job managing their costs. On the other hand, mastercard has had better returns on asset / equity / investment. So mastercard is able to better returns with the same assets and…

Just curious about this as it has crossed my mind a number of times. Does the Buy:Sell ratio of an ETF directly affect its price or is the price controlled by the ETF managers and tied directly to the NAV? For arguments sake and illustrative purposes on what I'm asking, let's say we have a…

TLDR; How to know which s&p to invest in. I thought id just search up “S&P 500” and find it but I dont know the difference between any of the options. Cant add a photo, but on robinhood(not trying to discuss robinhood) it has all these listings (SPY, SPLG, SPYV,SPYG,SPYD, SPXL, SPXS, SPMO, SPXU, SPUS)…

I don't believe the market is 100 percent efficient, but it could be 99 percent. Yes, I am making up a percent. There are so many people looking at stocks, and with the internet and computers, that I think any quantitative factor would be seen almost instantly. For your average person, I'm wondering if there…

My uncle (65) and I were talking after his fathers funeral and he's trying to figure out why his father (who died at 95), was holding only 1 ETF, SPY. The capital gains are so insane that we're not sure how to part ways with it and move to something like VTI or VOO, IVV,…

I have my retirement accounts with Fidelity and my general account with Schwab and want to consolidate into one brokerage. Curious as to what any of you say if you have experience with both? My thoughts: Fidelity automatically pays you good interest on cash balance, Schwab requires you to manually move money. This is my…

These daily discussions run from Monday to Friday including during our themed posts. Some helpful links: Finviz for charts, fundamentals, and aggregated news on individual stocks Bloomberg market news StreetInsider news: Market Check – Possibly why the market is doing what it's doing including sudden spikes/dips Reuters aggregated – Global news If you have a…

Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals announced results from the Phase 3 PALISADE study of investigational plozasiran in patients with familial chylomicronemia syndrome, a severe and rare genetic disease which currently has no approved treatments in the U.S. PALISADE successfully met its primary endpoint and all multiplicity-controlled key secondary endpoints, including statistically significant reductions in triglycerides, apolipoprotein C-III, and…

New CEO in 2020. Stock up 24% YTD, 38% last 12 months. 3%+dividend. Market leader in hybrid cloud and AI technologies (has more Gen AI patents pending than Google and Microsoft), digital operations planning and analytics consulting, enterprise software/hardware and quantum computing development. Yet you hear very little. Why is that ?