Category Archive: Finance
Should Investors Let The Speculators Play Their Games Today?
Now that I am an honored member of the “gray-beard club” of investment managers, I can reminisce fondly back to the time when I first entered this business and began learning my trade with the utmost confidence of the “cute, fuzzy, teddy bear” youngster I was. I would like to share with you some thoughts […]
Rule Number 1 In Investing
With all due respect to Warren Buffett, the number 1 rule in investing is not anything close to “never lose money.” In fact, the entire notion is absurd. Anyone who has ever invested in the history of the world has lost money at one time or another. Buffett himself lost close to 50% on two separate […]
Your Go-To Swing-Trading Watch List In A Resuscitated Market
All my bullish swing trading setups to follow this week Gap higher by +20 points and stay in cruise control the rest of the day – not a bad way to start the week. Especially considering how dull the market has been over the last couple of months. Now there is new life to the […]
Mall Meltdown -The Retail Bubble Is Bursting
Remember the Sears catalog? Going to the mall every weekend with friends? I often laugh at memories of growing up heading with my mom to the “husky” section of the Sears store for my jeans. Might as well of had a big neon “Fat Boys” sign lit up for us on the more “chubby” size […]
Will Euro Gap Be Filled?
The euro exploded higher after centrist Emmanuel Macron “won” the first round of the French Presidential election. Of all the probable scenarios, this was the best outcome for the euro, which explains why EUR/USD gapped above 1.09 when the markets opened for trading on Sunday evening. Macron is pro euro, pro EU whereas Le Pen […]
June Rate Hike Odds Soar To 69% As Debt Ceiling Looms
It appears the hope that a centrist candidate will win the French election is enough to trump tumbling macro-economic data, disappointing earnings, and flailing inflation in the US economy. June rate hike odds have spiked to 69% overnight (even as debt ceiling risks begin to price in… and the dollar drops)… So The Fed gets the […]
Steel And The Trump Twist
The US investigation into steel imports is not particularly novel. The US steel industry is highly organized for such purposes. The steel sector has the significant global excess capacity, which makes for intense competition. What is relatively new about the investigation is that it is being conducted Section 232 of the 1962 Trade Expansion Act, claiming […]
Now That France Has Spoken, What’s Next?
Gold investors were forewarned. Gold bulls were shaken by the results of first round voting in France over the weekend. Bullion prices sank as much as 1.5 percent as the euro spiked two cents higher against the US dollar. While the far-right candidate, Marine Le Pen, advanced to the second round, her centrist opponent, Emmanuel […]
Top Ranked Housing ETFs For A Hot Spring Selling Season
Homebuyers are rushing into the market as the spring selling season heats up. Existing home sales jumped 4.4% from February to an adjusted annual rate of 5.71 million in March–their strongest pace in a decade. This was much better than the economists’ estimate of a 2.2% gain to 5.6 million. Sales were particularly strong in […]
5 Best Performing Vanguard Mutual Funds Of Q1
Over the last three years, investors put in $823 billion into Vanguard funds and scooped up around 8.5 times of all its peers. By any measure, these are astounding figures with the company witnessing the best quarterly inflow in the first three months of the year. Vanguard’s asset under management skyrocketed in the last seven […]
