However, history shows crowded positions are a reliable counter-indicatorTraders are growing increasingly confident that U.S. stocks are headed for a selloff. But history shows the opposite is more likely, according to an analysis by one macro strategist.Speculative traders are more bearish than at any time in the last decade, according to the latest release from the Commodity Futures Trading Commmission’s weekly commitment of traders report, which tracks futures-market positioning in a number of currencies, commodities and U.S. equity indexes.Net-short bets by noncommercial traders in S&P 500 e-mini futures have swelled to 321,459 contracts as of April 4, the largest level since October 2011.Futures-market positioning is generally viewed as a counter-indicator by equity strategists, m

In the past week, TRKA stock has gone down by -14.58%, with a monthly decline of -4.48% and a quarterly surge of 121.75%. The volatility ratio for the week is 26.83%, and the volatility levels for the last 30 days are 31.74% for Troika Media Group Inc. The simple moving average for the last 20 days is -35.45% for TRKA stock, with a simple moving average of -48.45% for the last 200 days.Is It Worth Investing in Troika Media Group Inc. (NASDAQ: TRKA) Right Now?Will You Miss Out On This Growth Stock Boom?A new megatrend in the fintech market is well underway. Mobile payments are projected to boom into a massive $12 trillion market by 2028. According to Motley Fool this growth stock could "deliver huge returns." Not only in the immediate future but also over the next decade. Especially since t

$Bilibili Inc.(BILI)$Wall Street is positive on Bilibili Inc - ADR (BILI). On average, analysts give the stock a Buy rating. The average price target is $38.3, which means analysts expect the stock to add by 63.68% over the next twelve months. That average ranking earns the stock an Analyst Rating of 30, which is better than 30% of stocks based on data compiled byInvestorsObserver.Why are Analyst Ratings Important?Fundamental research of the underlying health of a company can be an extremely useful resource when making investment decisions. Analysts observe growth prospects and forecasted earnings of companies to gain a comprehensive view of particular industries. This data allows traders to react before numbers are officially reported.InvestorsObser

$Sea Ltd(SE)$Getty ImagesShopee is a global leader in the e-commerce industry. Panorama Mobile Time/Opinion Box found that in 2021, it would be the most downloaded app worldwide in the category “shopping” and is the market leader in Brazil. However, the origins of Shopee and its founders are a mystery to some.Sea Ltd., which operates in gaming with Garena, financial technology with Sea Money, and e-commerce with Shopee, is in charge of e-commerce. A Singapore-based startup that has been in operation since 2009 and got its start developing in-house software. Later, it became known as the “Tencent of Southeast Asia” due to its role as a distributor for Tencent Games.Countries like Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Taiwan are critical loc

$Lucid Group Inc(LCID)$The luxury EV maker is still struggling with supply chain headwinds.Lucid Group's(LCID-2.75%)stock tumbled 13% during after-hours trading on Aug. 3 following its second-quarter earnings report. The luxury electric-vehicle (EV) maker generated $97.3 million in revenue, which represented a big jump from $174,000 a year ago (when it hadn't started shipping its vehicles) but broadly missed analysts' expectations by $59.8 million.Lucid only delivered 679 vehicles during the quarter and produced 1,405 vehicles in the first half of 2022. It also halved its full-year production forecast from 12,000 to 14,000 EVs to 6,000 to 7,000. That marked the second time Lucid cut its production forecast; during its investor presentation in July 20

$Occidental(OXY)$Billionaire investor Warren Buffett's wager on US oil firm Occidental Petroleum is as much a bet on the company's ambitious plans to scale up carbon capture as on a conviction that high oil prices could be here to stay.US energy regulator Ferc has authorised Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett's investment vehicle, to boost its holding in the shale independent to as much as 50pc. It had been snapping up shares on the secondary market all year, amassing a stake of just over 20pc. Buffett's interest may have been piqued by the company's recovery from its ill-timed $55bn takeover of Anadarko Petroleum three years ago, which saddled Occidental with tens of billions of dollars in debt, shortly before the pandemic sent oil prices crashing.But it al

$PayPal(PYPL)$ Paypal(PYPL) has been one of the most searched-for stocks. So, you might want to look at some of the facts that could shape the stock's performance in the near term. Over the past month, shares of this technology platform and digital payments company have returned -23%, compared to the Zacks S&P 500 composite's -9.4% change. During this period, the Zacks Internet - Software industry, which Paypal falls in, has lost 19.5%. The key question now is: What could be the stock's future direction? Although media reports or rumors about a significant change in a company's business prospects usually cause its stock to trend and lead to an immediate price change, there are always certain fundamental factors that ultimately dri