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The Nasdaq 100 is currently @ 4,409 points / in order to assess a possible risk let's take a look at the past

If one wants to plan a strategy and manage a Stop-Loss upfront one can try to assess the possible future down-movements (RISK) and pick the relevant Nasdaq-stocks which also serve as an additional risk-buffer (meaning stocks with reasonable valuation metrics).

In the chart below some selected Nasdaq-Stocks incl. some valuation metrics are given (metrics-source: finviz.com)

P/E = Price-Earnings (German: KGV)
P/B = Price-Book (German: Kurs-Buchwert-Verhältnis)
P/S = Price-Sales ...

Possible sustainable NASDAQ-Breakout? (Index currently hovering over 5,000 points)

Intraday the well-known Bellweather-names Microsoft, Starbucks, Google are posting big intraday-gains.
NDX and COMP are both up in the green! (MSFT + 8%, SBUX +4%, GOOGL +3%)

Opening a LONG-position in the Nasdaq-Index may have an implicit 9% Risk (if one applies a Stop-Loss following the upward-trend-channel).

Regards Ralph

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South Africa (since 1900 one of the world's most successful equity markets)

Today, South Africa has 90% of the world's platinum, 80% of its manganese, 75% of its chrome and 41% of its gold, as weel as vital deposits of diamonds, vanadium, and coal. As per 2015, South Africa is the largest ...