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McDonald's. It's Difficult To Fight Strong Stocks.

Here is McDonalds five day chart at the close on Wednesday. Now here is it's three month chart. Now consider this. In two days the stock is up about twelve dollars. I often talk about Wednesdays being the one day in the week the markets can do reverals. Today the DJIA was up over four hundred points and McDonalds was down 60 cents. It dipped on the opening and came back a bit and then selling pressure came into the stock again on the closing. I personally hate McDonald's food. The internet has tens of Youtube videos saying their fries are poisonous. Yet I get it. But think about this. Whenever a new residential subdivision goes in anywhere in North America there is room for another one of their restaurants to go in. They just pop up and everyone knows what they are. Here now is a snippet I posted in a past McDonald's blog. After a lackluster trading session today McDonald's could drop in the next two days or at least on a Thursday afternoon sell off. Yet nothing m...

Can You take Flyers On Stocks You Know Nothing About Based On Something You First Learned Of At The End Of Last Week?

Here are two stock to watch. 1)
Jazx. What an explosion in it's stock price. When a stock jumps like that it is bound to attract a lot of short term interest. News about the treatment of prostate cancer in early trails. It had little volume on Friday March 1st and here is how it's one day chart looked that day.
2) Viking Terapeutics with mid-phase trails on a weight loss drug
Now for some March 5th news. Both stocks took a trick out of the same paybook. They used the spike in the stock's prices to issue new shares at it's higher prices.
Now Viking.
What's going to happen next is anyone's guess. The markets as of late can suprise. On a more sobering note look at this other well known drug stock. It's a three year chart.
What a difference. Many people hate trading drug stocks. It's a game of trying to follow what is hot. That's not a fun game to be playing.

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