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How To Obtain Leverage Without Margin Or Loans
Tamara buys a stock market index (VTI) and reinvests her dividends. She doesn’t use leverage. She began investing exactly ten years ago and has made 178% on her investments, for an annualized return of 10.76%. Her initial $100,000 investment is now worth $278,000. Jessika buys the same stock market index and reinvests her dividends. But she does use […]
Netflix Dips As CFO Departs
Netflix shares down 1.5% in the pre-market after news that CFO David Wells will be leaving the firm “to pursue philanthropy” as the firm faces growing competition and cash burn. The press release signals a business as usual exit of the CFO – who has been with Netflix since 2004 (and has served as CFO since […]
E Forex Analysis Of USD/JPY For Monday, August 13
First, we look into the previous day trade and what happened on August 10, 2018, and the USD/JPY pair opened at 110.073 and went high at 111.161 and gone low 110.502 and finally closed at 110.922. The calculated pivot point for the day is 110.861. The difference between high and low was nearly 0.659 points […]
Gold: Bearish Fundamentals, Bullish Sentiment
For the first time this year, about two weeks ago the sentiment backdrop became decisively supportive of the gold price and remains so. At the same time, the fundamental backdrop is unequivocally bearish for gold. What will be the net effect of these counteracting forces? Before attempting to answer the above question let’s briefly review […]
The Myths Of Stocks For The Long Run – Part XI
<< Read More: Part I – “Buy & Hold” Can Be Hazardous To Your Wealth << Read More: Part II – Why Crashes Matter & The Saving Problem << Read More: Part III – Valuations & Forward Returns << Read More: Part IV – The Math Of Loss << Read More: Part V – Choosing The Right Portfolio Benchmark << […]
Bid-A-Bing, Bid-A-Bond
Regarding the markets this morning, I was a little surprised to see (as of this writing, because there are both very close to unchanged) that NQ had flipped green and ES’s low was very small, whereas they had both been down hard when I went to bed last night. It’s not upsetting, though, because, frankly, huge Monday […]
Bitcoin Analysis – Monday, August 13
Bitcoin tested the 6,000 USD mark over the weekend. After that, there was a rebound. Currently, BTCUSD is trading at around 6,471 USD on the Bitfinex exchange. If we look at the graph, we can see that bitcoin once again bounced off the bottom line of the descending triangle, which is at 5,800 – 6,000 […]
Indian Rupee Hits Record Low Over The Turkish Lira Woes
The Indian rupee hit an all-time low of Rs. 69.62 against the U.S. dollar following the currency disorder in Turkey. The Turkish lira has been on a free fall, dropping 12% on Monday morning. Last week, on Friday, the currency slipped 16%, and over the past 12 months, the currency lost over 50% of its value, indicating […]
Volume Is Extremely Light
My Swing Trading Approach At least standby for the first 30 minutes of trading this morning before making any decision on market direction. Volume picked up on the selling to the downside on Friday with an above average volume reading. I will not be making a ton of moves today as I remain nimble and […]
Key Factors For Gold & Silver Investors
Briefly: Gold is likely to plunge below $1,000 this year and we’ve been writing about it for months. This article provides a list of critical long-term factors that one should be aware of if they want to invest in or trade gold, silver, and/or mining stocks. We include links to our previous premium analyses and we just […]
