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Project 2025: The MAGA Plan To Take Your Freedom

Project 2025: The MAGA Plan To Take Your Freedom

A second Trump term would be more dangerous than the first — in part because of something called Project 2025, a plan to extend Trump’s grip into every part of your life.  depositphotos Trump’s gross incompetence in his first term wasn’t all bad. It kept some of his most extreme goals out of reach. That’s why his inner […]
Vulnerable ETFs

Vulnerable ETFs

   On Friday evening, I went through my list of key ETFs, and I found eight that seemed strong and eight that seemed vulnerable to weakness. Here are the vulnerable-looking ones, in alphabetical order of their symbols. depositphotos          More By This Author:King Of The Trendlines Buy Precious. Short Stocks. Discover OUNZ: The ETF That Lets You Own And […]
Research Proves Chat GPT4 Outperforms Financial Analysts

Research Proves Chat GPT4 Outperforms Financial Analysts

Yes, you read the title correctly. Why am I not surprised that I am writing this article? Well, I should not be surprised, yet I partly still am. depositphotos Now that I have overcome my latent disbelief in AI capabilities, let’s examine the topic in detail. In May 2024, three researchers from the University of Chicago Booth […]
When A Broken Downtrend Reveals A Bigger Picture

When A Broken Downtrend Reveals A Bigger Picture

Let’s talk about a counter trend rally as it applies to the stock market. The SPDR S&P 500 Trust ETF mirrors the S&P 500 and its price action and for swing traders trying to predict and capture its price swings and understand the nuances of trend and technical analysis is crucial for making good trading decisions […]
Ranking Associations With Inflation 
                    
 

Ranking Associations With Inflation  

This post ranks the associations between changes in various sources of money and subsequent CPI inflation for inflationary surges from 1952 to 2023. depositphotosIntroductionPast posts have determined the correlations between changes in various sources of money and consumer inflation that occurred up to two years afterward.  Here, we rank the associations between the following money changes […]
I Won’t Sell WMT Even Though It’s Overvalued And Overextended

I Won’t Sell WMT Even Though It’s Overvalued And Overextended

It was never my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting – Jesse Livermore In Reminsiscences of a Stock Operator, Jesse Livemore recounts the lesson he learned from a character called Partridge. While the others would sell their stocks when they got overextended in the short term and plan to […]
Nvidia Beats Stock Market Upswing: What Investors Need To Know

Nvidia Beats Stock Market Upswing: What Investors Need To Know

Nvidia (NVDA – Free Report) closed at $124.58 in the latest trading session, marking a +1.4% move from the prior day. The stock’s change was more than the S&P 500’s daily gain of 0.2%. At the same time, the Dow added 0.24%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq gained 0.21%. depositphotos The stock of maker of graphics chips for gaming and artificial […]
Half Of OECD Countries See Real Earnings Decline Since Covid-19 Pandemic

Half Of OECD Countries See Real Earnings Decline Since Covid-19 Pandemic

A new report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reveals a troubling trend: approximately half of its member countries have experienced a decline in real earnings since the Covid-19 pandemic began. depositphotos This earnings dip underscores the broader economic challenges many countries face, with inflation and shifting labor dynamics straining incomes and reducing purchasing […]
Crude Oil Processing In China Falls Significantly In July – Commerzbank

Crude Oil Processing In China Falls Significantly In July – Commerzbank

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has revised its forecast for oil demand slightly downwards this year. This was due to a significant slowdown in demand in the second quarter, particularly in the emerging economies, where the annual increase was the lowest since 2020, which was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Commerzbank’s Commodity Analyst Carsten Fritsch […]
Stress Scenarios For Private Capital Fund Portfolios

Stress Scenarios For Private Capital Fund Portfolios

Standard risk assessments meet their limits when applied to private assets. The extreme uncertainty inherent in private markets requires scenario analysis and in particular stress testing to unearth the risks that may not be apparent, due to poor quality of and gaps in data. Stress testing involves subjecting a portfolio to extreme scenarios to identify […]