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Sentiment, Confidence, And Expectations: The Latter Is Down

Sentiment, Confidence, And Expectations: The Latter Is Down

Image Source: PexelsU.Michigan consumer sentiment and Conference Board economic confidence rise. But expectations drop.Figure 1: University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment (blue, left scale), Conference Board Economic Confidence (tan, left scale), and Gallup Economic Confidence (green, right scale). Source: U.Michigan via FRED, Conference Board, Gallup. Current conditions were up partly because of the impetus to buy now to avoid […]
Why HUT Should Be On Your Radar In 2025

Why HUT Should Be On Your Radar In 2025

Image Source: Unsplash The end of the year is always a good time to reassess your portfolio and look to make moves for the new year and beyond. One company that should be on your radar for 2025 is crypto stock Hut 8 (Nasdaq: HUT).Hut 8 is a Bitcoin mining stock, but it recently branched out into AI data centers, […]
China Secretly Snaps Up More Gold, Positions For Its Greater Global Role

China Secretly Snaps Up More Gold, Positions For Its Greater Global Role

Image Source: Pixabay While 99% of the media keeps staring at official data by the Chinese central bank (PBoC)—misleadingly stating it added 5 tonnes of gold in November following a supposed six-month pause—the PBoC’s “unreported” purchases in London accounted for a stunning 60 tonnes in September and another 55 tonnes in October.And while cross-border trade statistics […]
Happy Holidays Above The 200-DMA

Happy Holidays Above The 200-DMA

With just a few trading days left, it’s a pretty sure bet that the S&P 500 will close out the year above its 200-day moving average, which is something it has done for the entirety of 2024. There have been 11 prior years since 1952 (when the NYSE went to the current five-day trading week) […]
Gold Stocks Managing The Grinch

Gold Stocks Managing The Grinch

It’s Christmas Eve and while it’s been a spectacular year for supreme money gold, gold stock and silver bullion investors may feel a bit like the Grinch stole a piece of their Christmas.Are these feelings valid? The answer is complex and today I’ll cover some tactics to help investors view their investing glass as mostly […]
Bullish Investor Sentiment Might Be Bearish For Stocks

Bullish Investor Sentiment Might Be Bearish For Stocks

With the year 2024 approaching an end, most equity investors can cheer the strong year that has followed 2023. Over the course of the last two years, equity investors in the S&P 500 stocks have enjoyed a cumulative price only return of 57.3% as seen in the below chart. With the strength of the equity […]
Nasdaq 100 & S&P 500 Elliott Wave Update – Tue., Dec 24

Nasdaq 100 & S&P 500 Elliott Wave Update – Tue., Dec 24

Image Source: Unsplash Rallies continued on Christmas Eve in the holiday shortened session. The most important fact from today is the SPX moved back and closed above 6000 finishing the day at 6040. That puts a more positive tone in place for year end expiration on 12/31/2024 – and that pin being the JPM collar at […]
3 Stocks With Great Short Potential In 2025

3 Stocks With Great Short Potential In 2025

Image courtesy of 123rf.com Traders shorting Tesla (Nasdaq: TSLA) and MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) have lost billions over the last two months as these stocks kept reaching new yearly peaks. Even after the most recent market price correction, they are rallying again.But which overvalued stocks could bring more consistent short-selling profit in 2025? Each time short […]
China’s GDP Growth Is Now Lagging The Rest Of Asia

China’s GDP Growth Is Now Lagging The Rest Of Asia

China’s economy is facing a series of significant challenges, including a property crisis and high youth unemployment. After decades of rapid growth, the country is now expected to experience less economic growth than other Asian nations.This graphic illustrates the projected growth of per-capita GDP for selected Asian nations between 2023 and 2026, based on data compiled […]
Bulls: The Santa Claus Rally Is Coming To Town After All

Bulls: The Santa Claus Rally Is Coming To Town After All

Image Source: Pixabay Stocks nailed a higher low last week – which we discussed at length in the TheoTrade live trading room.I’m seeing strong leadership from the tech sector and emerging strength in semiconductors, too. I’ve been pounding the table about this for a few weeks now; these two conditions tick that final “box” we need […]