With the stock price plunging, momentum investors sold as well, driving the price lower still.
Another critical factor is the amount of EVA Momentum investors expected going into the period.
They are on the radar of momentum investors, chasing them to the moon.
Also hot for Varian is the father-and-son team of Carlton and Timothy Lutts , hardcore momentum investors and editors of the Salem, Mass.
The reason behind the abnormal behavior is that gold these days is controlled by momentum investors who trade in gold contrary to convention.
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Markowski believes that momentum investors will find JCOM again as long as the company continues to generate increasing amounts of cash from its operations.
Instead, gold has behaved more as a risk asset, bought by momentum investors who like its recent trend and believe in the commodity bull cycle.
They are on the radar of momentum investors, and for a good reason, high growth that has been driving their earnings and stock prices higher.
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Momentum investors riding the home builder rally have been richly rewarded.
It seems certain that Apple will eventually offer up an iDog, or its very own Edsel, and momentum investors can be counted on to jump ship at that point.
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These momentum investors have gone headlong into growth stocks since March, and their indicators, like breadth, moving averages and new highs versus new lows, tell them to keep on buying.
While momentum investors may be tempted to play their luck and see if they can squeeze more profits from these runs before the flag, more conservative investors may want to give them a pass altogether.
Such pricing leaves some room for mild earnings disappointments, to which the current set of relatively sober investors will likely respond in a much more measured way than the growth and momentum investors who formerly dominated the stock.
Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) are in different business, but they do have one thing in common: Their stocks have been popular among momentum investors enchanted with the unlimited possibilities of the Internet, and disenchanted with the meager returns of money market funds.
While I would love to point to the decline in the stock price since the offering as evidence that the market is cognizant of value, I think it is more the consequence of momentum investors, disappointed in their inability to make money from the promised IPO pop, heading for the exits.
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As such, traders noted that with major European indexes now standing at such elevated levels, there appears to be little room for further upside momentum as investors look to cash in on this rally.
Momentum-chasing investors are setting themselves up for a fall he warns, if they try and extrapolate future performance from the 30-year bull run in the bond market.
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By pushing up the offering price to its upper limit and by expanding the offering to allow more insiders to cash out, they broke the spell that momentum casts over investors.
Given continuing downward momentum, commodity investors should tread carefully.
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So when investment celebrities disclose their bets against companies, particularly in very public places like a Sohn Foundation event, they create momentum, pushing investors to make decisions based not on the information but on fear.
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Irrational exuberance and irrational pessimism is more pronounced in momentum investing whereby investors chase after popular stocks networking in the late 1990s like JDS Uniphase (NASDAQ:JDSU), Ciena (NASDAQ:CIEN), Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO), and Lucent-Alcatel (NYSE:ALU) that now trade at a fraction of their 2001 highs.
We will watch Senate and the House conversations on how this emerges and predict this will be a bipartisan 2013 comprehensive immigration bill that will not only create more jobs and keep brain capital in the US but also increase a momentum of retail investors and foreign institutional investors investing in emerging managers in private equity.
Momentum strategies can help investors beat the market and avoid crashes, when coupled with trend-following, which focuses only on stocks that are gaining.
Provided the positive momentum underway, how should investors position themselves to benefit from the bullishness?
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With negative earnings momentum and premium valuation, investors may want to consider avoiding CoStar Group for now.
An emerging area that is gaining momentum and deserves the attention of impact investors is green infrastructure for stormwater management.
The HSBC report adds to the sentiment that the RMB will continue to strengthen against the dollar and euro, and investors love positive sentiment and momentum.
With this in mind, advisors and investors can build a market momentum portfolio that helps strike an optimal balance for clients when it comes to transparency, consistency and control.
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