Trading breakouts can be treacherous, but if you follow a few important rules, you can be successful over the long term. The keys, though, may not be what you expect.
What’s likely adding to investors’ nervousness is whether the latest reading for retail spending marks the end of the near 45-degree rise since March 2009 that coincides with the onset of the bull market.
Trend trading is a powerful source of profits, but these strategies can lose big when markets are drifting. Thankfully, there are indicators that let trend traders know when to stay on the sidelines.
Federal Reserve economists concluded in a new research paper that much of the decline in labor force participation since 2007 is due to long-lasting “structural” causes such as the aging of the workforce.
