It’s been 3 months since I entered into a short position into the S&P500 (NYSEARCA:SPY). Since then my bet haven’t moved significantly, it kept fluctuating between negative and positive territory pushing me to wonder if my decision to fight this market valuation was right.

In this article, we firstly look at the stocks that have the highest ratio of upside capture over downside capture compared to the Nasdaq-100 (NASDAQ:QQQ).

This has been a good year for high-yield investments including REITs and business development companies (“BDCs”). However, over the last two weeks there has been a noticeable divergence, especially between mREITs and BDCs.

This article is part of Tools of the Trade, a weekly series in which a variety of experts share actionable tips for achieving fast and effective results on everything from productivity to fundraising.

This article series provides a dashboard of industries in each sector of the GICS classification. It starts with a visual status of valuation and quality factors relative to their historical averages. Then, it gives a list of stocks among the best of their industries according to the same factors.

Photoshop is so full of powerful features that even professionals may not always be able to keep up. This video demonstrates a ton of uncommon yet powerful techniques that you might not have heard of before. Many roundup tutorials like this teach you basics like they’re revolutionary.

Part of the R course offering of BNOSAC which you can find at http://ift.tt/1BttM0v, we offer several 2-day hands-on courses covering the use of text mining tools for the purpose of data analysis.

Investing in Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) can provide dividend investors with high yields, steadily growing payouts, nice diversification, and an attractive income stream for retirement living.

This is the third in a series of four blog posts in which I’m highlighting compelling reasons why private commercial real estate should be included in an investment portfolio.

In a typical R Markdown document, you must re-knit the document to see your changes, which can take some time if it contains non-trivial computations. R Notebooks, however, let you run code and see the results in the document immediately.