Category Archive: Finance
VIX Crunch
A video follow-up to my recent column saying a low VIX is not a problem for the market. Actually, a spike down in the VIX has been pretty good under some conditions. Video length: 00:07:13
Dead Cat Bounce Definition: Day Trading Terminology
In trading, dead cat bounce refers to a temporary recovery that happens after a long decline which is usually followed by a downtrend. It can be defined as the chart phenomenon that happens during bearish moves. Basically, it is a long awaited correction from a brutal bearish trend. As a market jargon, it is a […]
What’s Inside Your Multifactor ETF?
Over the past few years, investors and advisors have been presented with a question: Can smart beta be made smarter? Smart beta, as you no doubt know by now, is an investment approach — usually wrapped in an exchange-traded fund — that’s a sort of middle ground between active and passive management. A smart beta fund employs a […]
Buy These 5 Low Leverage Stocks To Secure Your Portfolio
The U.S. stock market seems to be on a high right now on account of the dynamic market conditions that have been prevailing across the globe for the past few days. Two factors – reduced risk of euro dissolution in the wake of market-preferred French election results and hopes for a corporate tax cut by […]
April 2017 Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Remains Positive But Declines
Of the five regional manufacturing surveys released for April, all are in expansion. Analyst Opinion of Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Kansas City Fed manufacturing has been one of the more stable districts and their index declined (similar to the other Fed districts). Key internals likewise were positive but declined. There were no market expectations reported […]
Trump Releases Tax Reform Guidelines
In the lead up to the tax plan announcement, I made the point that if Trump was vague about his plan, stocks would rally on hope. Trump was vague, but it didn’t boost stocks because he was vague on the most important point stocks care about which is the repatriation tax holiday. Stocks care about […]
A 15% Tax On Freelancer Income Would Be Yuuuge
President Trump finally came out with his tax plan. Overall it’s a solid plan, though it was pretty much what was expected, given the market response. The new rates themselves are pretty standard; Trump wants 3 brackets topping out at 35%, sweetened with a doubling of the standard deduction to $12,600 per taxpayer. Decent, but […]
“Don’t Believe The Hype”: 2 Charts Suggest Central Banks Are Not All Powerful
Here at HR, we like to present both sides of the argument when it comes to markets. When it comes to politics, we like to present both sides of the story (hey look, it’s not our fault that the political story is one-sided right now – after all, we didn’t write it). Unfortunately, we can’t say […]
Misunderstanding GDXJ: Why It’s Actually Great News For Junior Miners
Something extraordinarily good for junior precious metals miners just happened. But for some reason it’s being misinterpreted as a bad thing. Here’s the general story: A Small-Cap Gold Mining ETF Streaks Lower As Big Index Change Looms (Investors.com) – Mining stocks blazed a bright trail of returns since the start of 2016 as gold saw […]
Great Graphic: Gas And Oil
This Great Graphic, made on Bloomberg, shows the past six months of oil and gas prices. The white line is the June gasoline futures and the yellow line is the June light sweet crude oil futures contract. In order to avoid showing two time series with two different scales, which often is an exercise in curve fitting, […]
