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Do Not Overtrade This Market Carelessly
Need I say more? Today was a prime example. Market opens higher on a level of optimism about talks with China, although no real substance to that optimism exists. It continues to trade higher right into resistance. Semiconductors SMH had to clear and hold over 94.00, (high was 94.48. Transportation IYT had to clear and […]
Trading Volatility Through Market Downturns With A Long-Term Thesis
A discussion on trading volatility, the current state of the global markets and the possible year-end outlook. Video Length: 00:30:02
NZD/USD Correction Still In Play Amid Hope For U.S.-China Trade Deal
NZD/USD pares the decline following the Federal Reserve meeting amid renewed hopes for a U.S.-China trade deal, and recent price action raises the risk for a larger correction as the exchange rate snaps the series of lower highs & lows carried over from the previous week. NZD/USD CORRECTION STILL IN PLAY AMID HOPE FOR U.S.-CHINA TRADE DEAL Comments […]
Global Growth Falters: Italy Faces A Recession
Global Growth Falters – Classic Late Cycle Economy The latest catalyst for stock market weakness is global growth. Global growth weakness matters a lot more when the American economy is also weakening. Fiscal stimulus delayed this weakness from impacting America for the first 3 quarters. But unfortunately, global growth has fallen further. And, the fiscal […]
5 Cheap GARP Picks With Discounted PEG
The investment pattern of the current generation is gradually tending toward hybrid investment from pure-play theories like growth or value. According to them, to make a long-term investment more effective, the principles of both value and growth strategies need to be combined. Accordingly, GARP (growth at a reasonable price) investment, often known as a special […]
EC Mean Reversion Of Equity Returns And Retirement Planning
Do stock returns exhibit long-term mean reversion? That’s an economist’s way of asking if stocks get safer the longer we hold them. Long-term mean reversion would act like a spring returning prices back to a trend line when they advance above that trend or fall below it. The strength of this spring is referred to […]
Dissecting The Crash In Crude Oil That Brought A Sudden Bear Market
That escalated quickly. While energy markets were moving higher under potential supply shocks, a domino of events in global macro markets shifted the conversation to too much supply relative to possibly shrinking demand. Commodities are one of the pure supply and demand markets left, and when the shifts in the balances of demand or supply […]
Home Affordability: Canada Vs. US
Homes are unaffordable in the US, but the situation is far worse in Canada. Point2homes has an interesting set of charts on Home Affordability In Canada vs the US. Key Findings The average Canadian has to dish out a whopping 56% more to buy a home, or 25% more to rent one compared to ten years […]
Retail ETFs In Focus Ahead Of Q3 Brick-And-Mortar Earnings
We are at the tail end of the third-quarter earnings season as all sectors save retail have reported. The retail sector has seen about half of its total releases. Total earnings for the companies reported so far are up 37.5% on 10.7% revenue growth with 89.5% beating EPS estimates and 63.2% beating revenue estimates. While earnings and […]
Auto Truce Is Over: Trump Again Threatens The EU, Japan With A 25% Tariff
Trump again threatens the EU with 25% tariffs on cars just as he is working on a deal with China. What’s the obsession? Trump meets with his trade team today to discuss a Draft of Car Import Tariffs. Trump claims that auto imports are a threat to US national security under section 232 of the 1962 […]
