Is omicron just another Wall of Worry that the leading tech stocks will overcome on their way to the moon? Note that I emphasize the ‘leading’ big name techs and avoid the rest if the market under them. A...
I headed last week’s blog “My most important blog is here” and I am standing by that bold/crazy label. Since November 8 when the Dow made its ATH at 36,570, I have been warning shares were reversing and were...
With US stock indexes pushing into new highs (and the FTSE advancing), this week’s blog is focused on a few individual shares that we are carrying in my Pro Shares service. Some have risen dramatically since tipping them and...
Trading the financial markets is very much like a experiment undertaken by a scientist. You first make a case for how the object studied has behaved in the past under various conditions. You work out a theory that can...
Stocks continue in their levitation mode. But of course, the ‘stock market’ is a market of stocks – some will be in full bull mode ( we are in some of these for our Pro Shares service), some in...
I started to have ideas that consumer price inflation – suddenly a very hot topic – would likely start to ramp up last Spring/Summer when the US grains (Wheat, Corn, Soybeans) were plumbing new lows and on the verge...
Just a few weeks ago, most pundits were in agreement – the dollar was doomed to fall into the basement. The Fed was openly pushing the idea of negative interest rates along with Biden’s plan for a whopping $2...
In the Thanksgiving-shortened week, stock indexes remained up against their highs. For a long time, these markets have ignored the pandemic even as it is hitting the USA very hard with rising cases and death rates – and the...
Sometimes, just a single data point jumps up and sticks out like a sore thumb to point the way for markets. Could this week’s news that the world’s largest ever IPO – the Chinese fintech startup Ant – be...
I sense things are slowly changing in the markets from the extreme bullish mania prevailing at least since the March Corona Crash lows. How? To a more cautious attitude going hand in hand with the current rise in bond...
In the blink of an eye on Thursday at approx 10 am UK time, the rocket-propelled Nasdaq started the biggest slide it has experienced for decades. The charts of the big name tech FAANG and other issues (including Tesla,...
I have long been fascinated by the phenomenon of herding. Many animal species do it seemingly automatically. For deer, a close knit group offers some kind of defence against predators who prefer to pick off stragglers rather than to...