Inflation is yesterday’s news. The Fed had already crushed it with all its rate hikes and the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and its collateral damage are ushering in deflation. While the Fed Futures are split on if the Fed…
Technical Analysis is bullshit. You can always find a line to draw that makes it look like support or resistance. For example, I remember technicians on Twitter talking about the 200 Week Moving Average being support at the end of…
ANOTHER BEAR MARKET RALLY: The stock market has rallied nicely the last couple of months and once again the bulls are saying the bottom is in. It isn’t. Like March and August this is another bear market rally – though…
When I go out I like a burger with fries or a margarita with salt. But that’s not what the market is serving. We’ve got a Fed pivot with weak earnings. What should we do? Obviously a Fed pivot –…
Stocks rallied Friday as The Fed Whisperer Nick Timiraos penned a column suggesting that the Fed may be close to pivoting to a less hawkish stance. Timiraos suggested that – while the Fed will raise another 75 points on November…
I’m not trying to scare anybody but I have a premonition that something is about to break. The relentless move higher in the dollar and the ten year treasury yield is tightening global financial conditions on a daily basis. The…
An interesting meme has taken hold of the crowd mind that is financial markets in recent weeks: The Peak Inflation Narrative. It started when Powell signaled a 50 basis point hike on Thursday April 21 and has gained momentum since….
Perhaps the most important thing ever written on trading is Chapter 5 of Reminiscences of a Stock Operator – Jesse Livermore’s story. In that chapter, Jesse introduces us to Partridge. When told to sell his position in a winning stock…
Wednesday morning, storied consumer goods company Procter & Gamble (PG) reported 4Q21 earnings. PG is a $400 billion behemoth and you likely use many of its products everyday like Crest toothpaste, Charmin toilet paper, Tide laundry detergent and Head and…