Author Archive: Jeremy Parkinson
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – What Is A Youth
“In one of his last speeches as Fed Chair, Bernanke bragged about how Fed didn’t have info it needed in 2009 to say banks were solvent. How would Bernanke know? He never took significant interest in the regulatory findings, simply followed assurances of others. OCC was complicit in tolerating excesses of banks in the lead […]
Is Passive Investing Toxic?
I can analyze the economy in specific detail for endless articles, but the health of the economy has had declining relation to the stock market returns lately. I calculated the correlation between quarterly GDP and the S&P 500 from 2008 to 2016. The correlation coefficient is 0.973 which signals there’s very high correlation between the […]
Sanderson Farms – Chart Of The Day
96% technical buy signals 14 new highs and up 14.10% in the last month Technical support at 107.45 The Chart of the Day belongs to Sanderson Farms (SAFM). I found the poultry products stock by using Barchart to sort today’s All Time High list first for the most frequent number of new highs in the last month, then again for technical […]
Clean Energy Stocks: Will This Be The Breakout Sector Of May 2017?
One of the questions we most frequently get from readers is about breakout markets and breakout stocks. That is why we are covering breakout stocks more than average in recent weeks. One of the few sectors that really look constructive at this point: clean energy stocks. It is almost the only potential candidate for a stock market breakout […]
How To Invest In New Discovery Plays
In this interview, Steve explains how he chooses to identify and invest in new discover plays. Video Length: 00:10:01
The Phenomenon That’s Been Plaguing U.S. Investors For Years
Call it patriotic… Call it lazy… But most people stick close to home when it comes to investing. This is called home-country bias, and it’s a phenomenon that’s too big to ignore. It’s pervasive across time and geography. And even though it makes investors feel all warm and fuzzy inside, it generally tricks us into accepting lower returns and higher […]
The Collapse Of The Middle Class In 20 Major U.S. Cities
When future historians look back at the beginning of the 21st century, they’ll note that we grappled with many big issues. They’ll write about the battle between nationalism and globalism, soaring global debt, a dysfunctional healthcare system, societal concerns around automation and AI, and pushback on immigration. They will also note the growing number of […]
These 11 Oil Drillers Still Have Maxed Out Credit Lines, Despite Energy HY Recovery
The first signs of financial distress often surface when CFO’s start to play games with their balance sheet. First, comes the ballooning of current liabilities as payable balances are stretched out to the max to preserve cash. Next, the most astute vendors catch on fairly quickly to the gamesmanship and move to COD terms for […]
Watch-List For Bearish Trade Setups
My bearish watch list for the week: How many people were anticipating a UK Snap Election prior to today? Yeah, nobody. It is quite amazing how many things, of late, the market can find to freak out about. Brexit was last year, it is happening! Apparently the algos have yet to get over it. They […]
Global Asset Allocation Update – Tuesday, April 18
There is no change to the risk budget this month. For the moderate risk investor, the allocation between risk assets and bonds is unchanged at 50/50. The performance of markets in the first quarter of the year was a bit schizophrenic. Stocks performed well which one might interpret as a reflection of improving economic growth […]
