Articles by Sam Quirke

After graduating with a degree in finance, Sam worked for a trading technology company as an analyst before joining a prop firm. Here he traded energy, commodity and index futures while utilizing a combination of technical and fundamental analysis.Today he manages his own stock and option portfolio which is made up of longer term positions and shorter term momentum plays. He lives in Chicago. Contact Sam Quirke via email at [email protected]

Despite shares of aerospace titan Boeing (NYSE: BA) trading down as much as 50% over the past twelve months, and being down close to their pandemic lows of 2020, there’s a growing argument to be made for taking the long side. Boeing has gone through more than its fair share of crises in recent years, both internal and external, but it’s starting to look like the horizon is as clear as it's been in a while. 

While the benchmark S&P 500 index has fallen as much as 13% since this time last month, shares of discount retailer Dollar General (NYSE: DG) have jumped 30%. So while many on Wall Street might never have shopped there, you can be sure they are sitting up, taking notice and starting to consider a position now.

Right now, everything is red, including even the old gravity-defying electric vehicle (EV) stalwart Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA).

Electric vehicle maker NIO (NYSE: NIO) has had a nice rally in recent weeks, with shares moving up as much as 70% from their post-pandemic lows of last month.

Just when you might have been starting to think the low was in for shares of e-signature tool DocuSign (NASDAQ: DOCU), they go and do something silly.

After a lackluster first half to the year, it’s looking like shares of MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB) are finally ready to turn around and start heading north.

After a vicious selloff that saw shares of identity software company Okta (NASDAQ: OKTA) fall 70% from last November through last month, they’re finally looking like they’re ready to turn around.

The well known athleisure brand Lululemon (NASDAQ: LULU) will be releasing their Q1 earnings after the bell rings to end today’s session.

After falling as much as 85% since last summer, we might be finally starting to look at what will be called the bottom in Roku’s (NASDAQ: ROKU) sell-off.

After sliding close to 40% in value since February, shares of fashion kingpin Ralph Lauren (NYSE: RL) were in need of some good news, and this week they got it.

There’s been something interesting happening with shares of conference call technology stock Zoom Video (NASDAQ: ZM) in recent weeks.

If you managed to avoid the 50% sell-off seen in Disney (NYSE: DIS) stock over the past year, get excited. It might just be time to start backing up the truck.

Video-game maker Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ: TTWO) had been having a run of very poor form before their fiscal Q4 earnings were released this week.

Video game maker Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) reported their fiscal Q4 earnings this week, and they more than justified the stubbornness seen in their shares in recent weeks.

It’s been death by a thousand cuts for shareholders of crypto exchange Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), whose shares went public just over a year ago and have only traded lower since.

Tech investors have been given plenty of lessons in the past few months about making the best of a bad situation, none more so than Shopify (NYSE: SHOP)

It’s been a while since there was any good news for investors of Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) to get excited about. Antitrust concerns last year were compounded by a large risk of delisting on US exchanges

Despite their shares being down almost 50% from last year’s all time high, Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) was a welcome sight for sore eyes this week.

If you thought ride hailing app Uber (NYSE: UBER) was going to deliver the stock market from the horrendous start to the years it's had, think again.

Investors of coffee giant Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) have had to watch their shares give up almost all of their pandemic fuelled gains since the start of the year.

You could almost hear the collective sigh of relief after Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) released their latest earnings report at the end of yesterday’s session.

A solid result was much needed, and Meta Platforms, Facebook’s (NASDAQ: FB) parent, certainly delivered.

With the major indices being slammed right down towards their lows of the year this week, there was a lot riding on Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) earnings last night.

It’s been a wild few months for shares of Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI) as they’ve whipped from above $80 to below $60 and back again.

It’s looking like it could be a volatile end to the week of shares of Snap (NYSE: SNAP), the social media giant.

Was yesterday the last time shares of Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) traded below $1,000, at least for the foreseeable future? It will be a while before that’s confirmed but they’re certainly looking good for it right now.

Shares of streaming giant Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) have been forming a bad habit of selling off after each quarterly earnings release, and investors are going to have to wait another three months to see if they can break it.

It’s been a rocky few months for shares of shares of Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) since they hit an all time high last November.

Shares of discount retailer Ross Stores (NASDAQ: ROST) were among the best performing of US equities this week as shares popped as much as 7% from where they closed last Friday.

It’s been a volatile few weeks for shares of social media platform Twitter (NYSE: TWTR), with the stock logging some of its highest traded volume in years.

The 150% rally in GameStop (NYSE: GME) shares through the back end of March was one of the hottest topics on Wall Street coming into Q2.

If Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) can surprise Wall Street with their upcoming earnings report, we could be on for the mother of all comeback rallies.

Even when their shares were trading down close to 20% last month from last year’s all time high, there would have been few on Wall Street truly concerned about Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) prospects.

We’ll know a lot more in about two week’s time when they report fresh earnings, but for now it’s safe to say that Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) is still one of the biggest and best of the financial stocks.

Lululemon (NASDAQ: LULU) rallies after topping estimates for the holiday quarter, posting strong guidance.

This might not be a question you were expecting to hear with regards to NIO (NYSE: NIO), whose shares are down almost 70% from last year’s all time high, but it’s one worth asking.

They say you can’t keep a good stock down, and while the debate is still ongoing with regards to if Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) is a good stock or not, one thing is for sure; it certainly can’t be kept down long.

Shares of transportation and delivery company FedEx (NYSE: FDX) have been trading sideways since the Tennessee headquartered company reported their fiscal Q3 earnings last week.

A 4.5% jump during yesterday’s session meant shares of high fashion retailer Ralph Lauren (NYSE: RL) were among the better performing stocks on a day that saw the major indices continue to rally off this week’s lows.

When there’s blood on the streets, it’s time to buy. So said Warren Buffett, and if a 75% drop from peak to trough isn’t bloody enough for you, then I don’t know what is.

Was it a dead cat bounce, or a white flag from the bears? It will be a few weeks yet before we can say, but one thing’s for sure, the market logged a big rally yesterday that was very much needed.

Readers will remember, some painfully no doubt, Netflix’s (NASDAQ: NFLX) last earnings report that sent shares down more than 30% in just a few days.

With the S&P 500 index currently down 10% from its all time high and struggling to get its mojo back, it can be a scary time for investors trying to pick new stocks.

It wasn’t so long ago that Zoom Video (NASDAQ: ZM) was being called the darling of all pandemic stocks, having been perfectly positioned to ride the work-from-home wave that broke in 2020.

With its stock trading close to all time lows, crypto exchange Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) released their Q4 earnings last week to a curious Wall Street. At first glance, they made for good reading.

It’s been three months since shares of e-commerce giant Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) printed fresh all time highs, a long time for investors who were getting used to it being a daily thing for much of last year.

Shares of social media titan Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) are up more than 12% since the end of last month, and have had more green days in the three weeks since than their stock has had since last summer.

Shares of semiconductor company Micron (NASDAQ: MU) have rallied 25% since the start of the month, and are quickly undoing the damage done during January’s fall of the same scale.

Shares of ride hailing titan Uber (NYSE: UBER) have been under significant pressure since this time last year, having had their price cut almost in half.

Meta (NASDAQ: FB), previously known as Facebook, has had a horrible start to February.