Short Ideas

The following stock has been highlighted by VantagePoint Software, an artificial intelligence platform that provides market forecasts 1-3 days in advance. Shares of D.R. Horton (NYSE: DHI) closed down 1.12 percent on Thursday. According to VantagePoint Software, the weakness will continue for...

The following stock has been highlighted by VantagePoint Software, an artificial intelligence platform that provides market forecasts 1-3 days in advance. 2018 has not been kind to Kimberly Clark Corp (NYSE: KMB). Shares of the personal care conglomerate have fallen 16 percent year-to-date, and the...

The following stock has been highlighted by VantagePoint Software, an artificial intelligence platform that provides market forecasts 1-3 days in advance. Shares of Marriott International Inc (NASDAQ: MAR) are down over 5 percent in the last two weeks. The move downward appears to be the result of...

Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is the most vulnerable of the "FANG" stocks and bullish investors need a "reality check," according to a new report by notable short seller Citron Research. What Happened The case against Netflix's stock is simple: rival media empires, both...

The following five stocks all appear to be headed into downtrends following recent periods of strength. All charts are from VantagePoint, an artificial intelligence platform that utilizes neural networks and intermarket analysis to predict future price action.  Some things to know about each...

TAL Education Group (ADR) (NYSE: TAL) stock was plunging 10 percent oWednesday after short seller and Muddy Waters founder Carson Block called the company a fraud.  Tal has overstated its net income by more than 43 percent in its past two fiscal years, Block said, comparing the Chinese...

A new breed of exchange traded funds offer investors exposure to the true source of future retail sales growth, that of course being online and e-commerce sales. Among these ETFs is the ProShares Long Online/Short Stores ETF (NYSE: CLIX), which debuted in November. While some new generation...

Recently, smaller stocks and the related exchange traded funds (ETFs) have been the talk of the town. That adulation is well-deserved. Over the past month, the widely followed Russell 2000 Index is higher by nearly 5 percent, extending its year-to-date gain to almost 10 percent. On Tuesday, nearly...

On Thursday June 7th, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) closed with a market capitalization of $972.1 billion meaning its ascent to being the first company with a market value of $1 trillion is probably a matter of “when,” not “if.” In theory, Apple's ongoing ascent to heights...

June can be a rough month for U.S. stocks. The sixth month of the year is the fourth-worst for both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Not surprisingly, that the theme of broader market weakness in June trickles down to the sector level. Just two of the original nine sector SPDR...

May was a big month for oil, with crude jumping over $70 for the first time since 2014.  Even though the commodity is down slightly from its high of $72.90 on May 22, things are still looking up for the market; energy has been the third strongest sector of the S&P 500 this year. But...

June is almost here and if history repeats, the arrival of the sixth month of the year isn't good news for equities. Over the past 20 years, the S&P 500 has averaged June declines of 0.5 percent, making June the fourth-worst month of the year for the benchmark domestic equity gauge. While...

The iShares MSCI Turkey ETF (NASDAQ: TUR) jumped 5.46 percent Tuesday on volume that was more than double the daily average. Even with that gain, the lone Turkey exchange traded fund is down more than 21 percent year-to-date. One of the primary culprits behind TUR's recent swoon is the plunging...

The iShares MSCI Italy ETF (NYSE: EWI) plunged Tuesday. EWI, the largest dedicated Italy exchange traded fund listed in the U.S., tumbled 5.82 percent on more than triple the average daily volume. EWI's Tuesday tumult represents essentially all of the fund's year-to-date loss, but since the...

Broadly speaking, the financial services sector is disappointing this year. Year-to-date, the Financial Select Sector Index, one of the most widely followed gauges of large-cap financial stocks, is down about 1 percent.   Amid the Trump Administration's efforts to relax industry...