Despite initial optimism for traditional retailers during the holiday season, ecommerce sales as a percentage of the total rose again. Despite initial optimism for brick-and-mortar retailers going into the holiday season, there was fresh evidence that retail is still in the midst of a digital disruption and transformation.

In this one-year daily chart of WPZ, below, we can see two trends for WPZ in 2016. The first trend is the big rally from the February price low around $14.

Anticipating tops rarely works out for traders, but recognizing the potential for rollovers offers a much better risk-reward. Clearly, it isn’t perfect and you’ll have to sacrifice the bragging rights of top ticking a security, but bragging rights don’t pay the bills and tend to get a trader into trouble, so consider this approach well-served on multiple fronts.

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” — Thomas Edison I still do like the banks and consumer finance names going forward.

Although the U.S. may be divided on many major issues, most people would probably agree on one thing: 2016 was a roller coaster of a year filled with surprises. That said, investors bullish on one company shouldn’t have been caught off-guard by its stock’s stratospheric ascent .

The latest issue of Barron’s offered a nice summary of various market returns for the fourth quarter of 2016. It also looked back over the previous one, five and 10 years.

What happened yesterday with the British pound shows that investors still have not priced in the first, and possibly the most important, thing about Brexit: the fact that the U.K. will leave the European Union’s single market. The sooner they price that in, the better, because it means they can move on to pricing in other effects of last year’s referendum vote.

We looked for a small consolidation/pullback before renewed gains — “prices could stall or even pull back to $36 or a tad lower. With the overall strength in BHP, I would consider this kind of shallow pullback a buying opportunity.”

Parrot SA, the maker of toy drones you can fly from your phone, is cutting a third of its staff after lowering prices at Christmas to lure consumers from rivals including market leader SZ DJI Technology Co. Sales were short of what the company had forecast in the fourth quarter even as profitability fell in consumer drones, to a level unsustainable in the long-run, Parrot said Monday in a statement.

Chinese companies’ overseas acquisitions will probably decline in size amid tighter government controls on currency outflows, according to UBS Group AG’s China head. While UBS isn’t feeling any impact from the capital controls on mergers and acquisitions yet, deals this year are more likely to be in the range of $1 billion to “a couple of billion” rather than the “elephant deals” seen last year, China President Eugene Qian said.

Britain’s biggest supermarket chain Tesco recorded the fastest growing sales of the country’s four largest players in the Christmas quarter, as inflation returned to the grocery market after more than two years of falling prices. Market researcher Kantar Worldpanel said Tesco sales grew 1.3 percent during the 12 weeks to Jan. 1, outperforming no.2 chain Sainsbury’s , whose sales fell 0.1 percent, Asda , down 2.4 percent, and Morrisons , up 1.2 percent.