by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Oct 17, 2024 | Indicator Insights
This week’s indicator is all about the cyclical sectors. What are the cyclical sectors? Well, as their name implies, they’re sectors that are in sync with the economic cycle. When the economy grows, these sectors do well. But when the economy contracts, they...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Oct 10, 2024 | Indicator Insights
This week’s indicator is all about leverage in the stock market, or what is commonly referred to as margin debt. What is margin debt? In simple terms, it’s a measure of how much money investors are borrowing to buy stocks. When they do this, it’s called buying...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Oct 3, 2024 | Indicator Insights
This week’s indicator is actually three different indicators that, when combined, are flashing some good news for the stock market. The indicators (or models, to be exact) focus on three key areas: stocks, interest rates, and inflation. The idea is simple—when stocks...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Sep 26, 2024 | Indicator Insights
This week’s indicator is all about central banks. What is a central bank? In simple terms, it’s a government agency that controls a country’s money and helps keep the economy stable. It does this by controlling interest rates, either cutting (decreasing) or...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Sep 19, 2024 | Indicator Insights
Sometimes price isn’t the only thing that matters to investors. Breadth—the number of stocks going up or down—can be a valuable tool, too. For example, a popular way to measure this is with the Advance/Decline (A/D) Line. It’s calculated by taking the number of...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Sep 12, 2024 | Indicator Insights
This week’s indicator is all about that nasty word nobody likes: layoffs. Why layoffs? Because when they start to rise, it can signal that the job market is cooling off—often before we see it in other stats like initial jobless claims. This makes it a useful...
