Control Your Financial Future
Wall Street sits at the nexus of countless crosscurrents. News, fundamentals, sentiment, economics, politics – you name it. They are ever-present, constantly competing for investors’ eyeballs. The information barrage can quickly overwhelm the newcomer. These dream-toting, starry-eyed rookies arrive, like clockwork, each morning to try their hand at the great investing game. With pockets (some…
Most magicians keep their tricks hidden and undisclosed. It keeps the wonder and mystery of magic alive in the eyes of the audience. Reveal too much and what was extraordinary becomes pedestrian. “Oohs” and “aahs” turn into indifference. And nobody wants that. Unless, of course, you are training to become a magician yourself. In that…
You’ve made the life-altering decision to become an investor. The realization that investing, not saving, is the way to wealth has hit you hard, and you’re itching to get in the game. But before you can throw your dough in the market, you must open a brokerage account. And that requires hitching your wagon with…
Have you ever looked at a stock chart and seen blank spaces where prices seem to have skipped over? These are gaps and reflect times where no shares traded in a price range.
Below (in no particular order) are various arguments that I have gathered from different articles and blogs over the last couple of months pointing to areas that one might/should be concerned with in regard to the bullish market.
This month’s newsletter provides a unique and entertaining tale of money and religion. We will unmask the gods that deliver profits and losses to traders everywhere. And divulge the differences between the being who reigns over equities and those who control derivatives. Prepare to have your understanding elevated, and your vision enhanced. The Cult of…
To the untrained observer, stock prices appear a circus of chaos. Randomness reigns, and discerning direction appears a fool’s errand. At first, forecasting prices seems like you’re trying to guess the next step of a drunk stumbling through an alleyway. The feat looks impossible, maddening even. The path of the intoxicated is topsy turvy, full…
We live in a brave new world. Pandemics and quarantines are one thing, but negative prices for a commodity? That is a head-scratcher once thought to be impossible. I remember a time when hillbillies finding oil led to riches and a Beverly Hills mansion. Had they been so unlucky to have stumbled upon black gold…
The Arguments and GuessworkThere have and always will be bulls and bears in the market. Bulls who will proclaim why the market will go up from where it is and bears who will point to reasons why it will not. While these arguments still rage, perhaps never in the history of the markets have the…
This month we are bringing the Options Heuristics: 10 flashcards containing options basics. Keep them in your pocket.
