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Market Pulse: All Eyes on Treasuries
Hello Traders, I hope you are well and enjoyed your weekend. While I know this will be a difficult week for looking at your long-term portfolio, I want to provide ... Read Full Article
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Market Pulse: Buffett is a Net Buyer
Hello Traders, I hope you are well and enjoyed your weekend. Over the weekend, Berkshire Hathaway held their annual meeting, this time live, with an audience for the first time ... Read Full Article
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Market Pulse: How Does Risk Off Really Look Like?
Hello Traders, I hope you are well and enjoyed your weekend. We are heading into another choppy week in the market with all eyes on big tech earnings. Major heavy ... Read Full Article
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Market Pulse: Earnings Season is Upon Us
Hello Traders, I hope you are well and enjoyed your long weekend. We are heading into another choppy week in the market with all eyes on big tech earnings. The ... Read Full Article
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Market Pulse: Recession Watch
Hello Traders, Hello to all of our new subscribers and welcome to this week’s newsletter. This is where we discuss the market and use a top-down approach to come up ... Read Full Article
Market Pulse: Volatility Expansion
Hello All, Welcome to this week’s newsletter and my apologies for missing the past few weeks. You can expect this newsletter on Monday’s every week moving forward. The theme remains ... Read Full Article
Market Pulse: In Tech We Trust
Hello All, At the time of writing this email early Monday morning, the market seems to have bounced very nicely and is slowly climbing back up all the ground it ... Read Full Article
Market Pulse: VIX Is Telling
Hello All, Welcome to this week’s newsletter. We are heading into another week of sell offs due in part to geopolitical and rate risks. We did, however, see some signs ... Read Full Article
Market Pulse: Greed or Fear?
Hello All, Happy MLK day. Welcome to the second newsletter of 2022. Last week turned out to be quite interesting based in part on everything that was emanating forth from ... Read Full Article
Market Pulse: We are Still Risk On
Hello All, Welcome to the first newsletter of 2022. I am planning to send this newsletter out every Monday in order to help traders navigate the trading week with some ... Read Full Article
Market Pulse: A Week for Policy Making
Hello All, Welcome to 2021’s last newsletter. This is a very important week given Tuesday and Wednesday’s Fed meeting. Aside from that, we are seeing continued pressure on higher valuation ... Read Full Article
Market Pulse: Massive Inflows and Leverage
Hello All, Welcome to this week’s newsletter. Last week was definitely tough for the market, with defensive sectors being the only ones closing slightly in the green. As I mentioned ... Read Full Article
Market Pulse: So Hell is Not Coming This Time Around?
Hello All, Welcome to this week’s newsletter. We are entering into a new volatility regime of VIX being above 20. I personally do not think that VIX will stay above ... Read Full Article
The Market Pulse: Is Pressure Easing on the Supply Chain? Is Euphoria Back?
Hello all, Firstly, I want to wish a very happy Thanksgiving to everyone who is celebrating the holiday! Due to this being a shorter week, there is not quite as ... Read Full Article
The Market Pulse: More Headwind than you Could Imagine
Hello all, I hope you had an amazing weekend. We are getting closer to the end of the year and historically, December and November are great months for the stock ... Read Full Article
Is the Market Correction on the Way?
Do you remember the market crash of 2020? Well me neither! We had one of the fastest recoveries on record, and in a span of 2 years the market has ... Read Full Article
Job Reports and CPI Numbers: What It Means for the Month of June
For the past 20 years, June has been one of the worst months of the year with only 40% of the time being positive. Whether this year will follow the ... Read Full Article
What Can the Lumber to Gold Ratio Tell Us About the Market?
This past Wednesday, inflation numbers were released and, as expected, they created jitters in the market. The speed at which prices rose month over month resulted in a major sell ... Read Full Article
S&P on Track for its Best Year in 35 Years: What Could Go Wrong?
When we were rebalancing our portfolio in early December, we looked at many reports by investment banks in order to gain a sense of what the S&P 500 was expected ... Read Full Article
More than $2 Trillion for Infrastructure! Who will Benefit from Biden’s Proposed Bill?
President Joe Biden recently proposed a $2 trillion infrastructure bill to repair America’s crumbling infrastructure – an infrastructure that has earned a C- score from the American Society of Civil ... Read Full Article
Tech is Bound to Take Off Again
Long QQQ Short The VIX There has been an ongoing debate in the investment industry when it comes to value and growth. Value had a fantastic run after the dotcom ... Read Full Article
Market Update
From Steep Yield Curve to Tax Breaks: What caused the 2021 and 2016 sell-offs, and can we predict how the market will bounce back? The markets appear to be rebounding ... Read Full Article
Will Rising Rates Burst The SPAC Bubble?
SPACs were the hottest thing in 2019 and 2020, however, in the first months of 2021, they have failed to outperform the S&P 500. So, what is the reason behind ... Read Full Article
What is Going on in the Market? Do Not Panic
In this week’s newsletter, I am going to discuss the impact of rising rates on the market. We’ve seen a massive correction in many of the hot tech stocks that ... Read Full Article
YOLO Options of 2020 vs. Credit Crisis of 08: Does History Repeats Itself?
In the first week of September 2020, retail traders (trading less than 10 contracts) made $11.5 billions worth of trades in call contracts, 9 time the weekly average. In comparison, ... Read Full Article
Low Leverage is the Key to Survive this Pandemic
So who has been the biggest winner in this pandemic? Looking at the Russell 1000 index, it is prominent that companies with lower leverage on their balance sheets, have been ... Read Full Article
Should You Still Include Fixed Income in Your Portfolio for Hedging Purposes?
Is fixed income as an asset class no longer able to provide ballast against equity sell-offs? With zero lower bound interest rates(ZLB), the investors fear rates will not be able ... Read Full Article