As 2025 comes to an end, longer-term investors have been planning how they want their assets positioned for 2026. Those who have not been making plans need to start making those plans […]
Why Goldman Sachs Sees 2026 as Prime Time for Tactical Investors
As 2025 starts to come to an end, investors need to be preparing for how they expect to position their assets for 2026. Tactical Bulls has been tracking the start of many […]
THE TOP INVESTING THEMES OF 2026… According to A.I.
At this point, there are now less than 45 days remaining in 2025. Stocks have so far outperformed almost all expectations heading into the year, with the S&P 500 (SPY) up over […]
Tactical to Secular: Bold 10-Year Goldilocks Outlook for Stocks from Goldman Sachs
The stock market may have hit a bump during the first half of November, but most prudent long-term investors should know that the major U.S. equity indexes are still very close to […]
The Stock Market Bubble Scare Just Won’t Go Away
Investors keep hearing that the stock market is currently in a major bubble. At the present time, the Dow, S&P 500 and NASDAQ are effectively up against all-time highs. So the present […]
Tactical Relevance: The Art of Dividend Investing Is in Purgatory!
Many long-term investors just love receiving dividends. Many retirees even supplement their retirement income with those juicy dividend payments they have received for many years. This used to be called “mailbox money” […]
Top Earnings Season Winners of the S&P 500
Earnings season is far from over, but the winners and losers from after the first week of July are showing a clear pattern. The companies that are winning have so far kept […]
Actual 2025 Performance of All Major Markets Feels Worse Than It Looks
It has been a rough 2025 for U.S. investors. The last full week of April saw a cheerful 4.6% gain for the week in the S&P 500, but that top stock index […]
12 Tactical Strategies for Bear Markets and Stock Market Crashes
History has shown that there is no more consistent wealth creator in the United States other than the stock market. That lesson is hard to remember during panic-driven selling frenzies and bear […]
Why Bitcoin Is Finally Proving Itself as a Standalone Asset Class
Bitcoin is sometimes hard to describe outside of simply being a digital asset and alternative asset at the same time. And explaining its wild price gyrations, particularly on weekends and in the […]
Tactical Turmoil: Major Firms Slashing S&P 500 Targets for 2025
At the end of 2024, the bull market was all set to keep roaring with the “Trump Bump” keeping the economy going strong in 2025. Wall Street strategists were almost universally predicting […]
Should Tactical Investors Really Chase Index Rebalances?
Tactical investors use incremental opportunities to boost their gains over time. This involves rotations into individual stocks, switching sectors or even switching asset classes entirely. In short, they are going to go […]
Strategic Tactical Shift to European Stocks Over U.S. Stocks
Markets hate uncertainty. And even if bull markets do “crawl up a wall of worry,” uncertainty is always a convenient excuse for a big sell-off. Now HSBC’s strategy team is upgrading European […]
Massive Index Changes for S&P 500 (100/400/600 Indexes Too)
Index and ETF investors are getting some serious changes coming to major indexes in a quarterly rebalancing act. The S&P 500 is the biggest index change of them all because it has […]
How Each Sector & Theme is Performing So Far in 2024
Economic worries impact the financial markets. When you throw in political risks, those economic worries may become emotionally driven as well. And as 2025 is now more than two months in, the […]
Has the Magnificent 7 in 2025 Finally Succumbed to Rotation?
The Magnificent 7 stocks have been the predominant focus of the investing community for more than two years. The top performing theme has been around artificial intelligence, but many other themes like […]
Why the Top 20 Stocks of 2024 May Keep Surging Higher in 2025
2024 is now history and 2025 has begun. The S&P 500 rose by 23.3% and closed out at 5,881.63 in 2024. Investors are now looking to see what’s in store for 2025. […]
Where Every Wall Street Strategist Sees the S&P 500 Rising to in 2025
So, 2025 is here! In the aftermath of the Trump victory in November, stocks surged at first. Then the Santa Rally failed to materialize, and stocks returned back to the same levels […]
Why the Dow’s 9-Day Drop Is Not the End of the Bull Market
If investors saw that the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down for 9 consecutive trading days, they might think the next stock market crash was here. The problem is that this isn’t […]
2025 Outlook: Why Wall Street Sees 8% to 10% Gains in the S&P 500
As 2024 is fading rapidly into 2025, many expectations for the new year have already changed. The election is over, the Trump regime has many new plans, and investors are positioning their […]