17 August, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on 4 Reasons Why I Love Las Vegas Sands Corp.
4 Reasons Why I Love Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Shares of Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) have slipped about 7% after hitting a multi-year high of $66 in mid-June. That decline was caused by a crackdown on corruption and money laundering in its top market Macau, a slowdown in VIP spending, and tougher competition.
17 August, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on How Risky Is Snapchat Maker Snap Inc?
How Risky Is Snapchat Maker Snap Inc?
Snap (NYSE: SNAP), the maker of the ephemeral messaging app Snapchat, has had a rough five months. Snap went public at $17 per share in early March, briefly surged to $27, then plunged to about $13 on major concerns about its growth plans, financial discipline, and its ability to survive a prolonged battle with Facebook (NASDAQ: FB).
But as Snap searches for a bottom, contrarian investors might be tempted to pick up some shares. Let’s take a closer look at this hated stock to see how risky that bet could be.
17 August, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on 3 Incredibly Cheap High-Yield Dividend Stocks Right Now
3 Incredibly Cheap High-Yield Dividend Stocks Right Now
If you want to find high-yield stocks trading on the cheap, there’s no better place to look than the energy market today. Much to the chagrin of investors who thought that oil and gas prices would finally start to rise again, a barrel of oil has stubbornly remained in the $45-$55 per barrel range for most of the year and tested many investors’ patience. For those of us who want to invest over the long term, these oil price chasing traders are providing an excellent opportunity to load up on energy stocks again.
17 August, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Barclays on the European Central Bank minutes
Barclays on the European Central Bank minutes
I just posted the Bloomberg take on the ECB minutes here:
“ECB officials expressed concern over risk of euro overshoot” (minutes recap)
While I’m on the ECB, here is the (in brief) response via Barclays:
17 August, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on My NextGen Algo Setup – aka The Do Over
My NextGen Algo Setup – aka The Do Over
I’ve been algo trading for about 10 years now – from some super basic setups initially (single computer at home) to cloud based strategies to hybrid models where I backtest at home but deploy the code in the cloud to using AWS lambda. Over this time this has resulted in spaghetti code (having over 110 strategies with only a fraction of them delivering actual results didn’t help either) little to no documentation on the whole thing and a setup that feels like it cannot easily scale. It all…
17 August, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on "ECB officials expressed concern over risk of euro overshoot" (minutes recap)
"ECB officials expressed concern over risk of euro overshoot" (minutes recap)
The overnight FX-related news centred on the European Central Bank minutes …
Until the tragic events in Barcelona
and the continuing disarray in Washington
17 August, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Ruskies, Sanctions, And Bitcoin – Coincidence?
Ruskies, Sanctions, And Bitcoin – Coincidence?
By Chris at www.CapitalistExploits.at
Hands up if you’ve got kids.
This is how it works. And tell me I’m wrong.
Your progeny sees something, wants it, and whines asks for it. Could be an ice-cream, a fluffy toy, or that juicy sandwich you just prepared. Sometimes they get it, often they don’t. Time progresses and your tolerance regresses.