4 Inverse ETFs To Short Oil As Crude Prices Tumble
While a strong dollar and global growth concerns—slowdown worries in China, sluggish growth in Japan, and recessionary fears in Europe—are some of the factors behind the slump in demand, the U.S. shale gas boom has boosted U.S. oil output to the highest level in 30 years. As a consequence to this increase in demand, oil from […]
Precious Metals Report – March 11, 2016
Ira Epstein leads us through the day’s precious metal highlights. Video Length: 00:06:34
SP 500 And NDX Futures Daily Charts – ‘Reconsidering’ The ECB’s Recent Action
According to the official spin, traders ‘reconsidered’ what the ECB did this week, and what Draghi had subsequently said, and gleefully cast off all doubts and concerns about risks and started buying equities. Yes, I am sure that this is what happened. Just as I am sure that all the lying, manipulating, and looting will […]
What Does Nasdaq Know?
Nasdaq risk is dramatically higher than S&P risk at current levels. Despite the exuberant ramp of the last few weeks, the ratio of Nasdaq VIX to S&P VIX is at its highest in over 6 months. This is worrisome since the last time Nasdaq traders were this much more concerned about future risk than S&P traders, […]
What The World’s Leading Energy Insiders Fear Most
On Wednesday, you saw what the annual Windsor gathering of energy executives, ministers, and ambassadors agreed on were the most important “shifts” in the energy sector today. But one topic got more attention during my briefing than any other. And I wasn’t the only one talking about it, either. You see, there’s a crisis brewing… It’s already […]
Anti-Gold Bug Says “Buy Gold!”
Veteran trader Dennis Gartman appeared on CNBC Futures Now yesterday and he made it clear right up front that he is not a “gold bug.” I’m not a gold bug. I don’t like the gold bugs. I’m not a believer that the world is coming to an end.” After that disclaimer Gartman, the anti-gold bug said, “Buy gold!” Video […]
EC This Is Still The Worst Possible Environment For Stock Investors
The latest Z.1 data was released yesterday showing that, as of the end of the year, the stock market was still very overvalued, investors were still overly bullish and the S&P 500 was still very overbought relative to its long-term regression trend. In other words, this is still the worst possible environment for equity investors. Let’s start […]
EC HH Update: Global Asset Allocation
The risk budgets this month are again unchanged. For the moderate risk investor, the allocation between risk assets and bonds remains at 40/60 versus the benchmark of 60/40. The changes in our indicators since last month’s update have not been sufficient to warrant a change. Credit spreads did narrow significantly over the last month but […]
E A Major Bear Market Sign Is Developing
I’ve outlined some very dependable markers of bear turns now developing in our stock market in some recent articles.I don’t like being a such sour puss as I mainly like analyzing individual stocks and seeing them climb. All I ask of the market is to leave my individual stocks alone. A flat, boring market is […]
Core Market Risk Clears
All of my core market health indicators bounced around this week without much change. However, my core measures of risk moved enough to go positive. This changes the core portfolio allocations as follows: Long / Cash portfolio: 40% long and 60% cash Long / Short hedged portfolio: 70% long high beta stocks and 30% short […]
