Whole Market is Full of Rats

16Dec11:49 amEST

What's the Real Consensus for Real Rates?

It's that time of the year again, to be sure, where turning on financial news television means most guests are questioned about their outlooks for the new year. Certainly, given everything that has happened in 2020, there is much to opine on for 2021 in markets. But I have noticed the topic of rates to be a hot one of late. And it is fair to...

15Dec4:24 pmEST

Stock Market Recap 12/15/20 {Video}

The following video is a brief, condensed version of the Stock Market Recap which I present each evening to members of Market Chess Subscription Services. In the longer version, I offer tons of actionable trade ideas, educational content, and in-depth objective analysis across all markets. If you enjoy my videos and blog posts, then please...

15Dec11:20 amEST

Armed for an Economic War

I see Warren Buffett is out this morning opining that the current landscape is akin to an "economic war," as he was specifically referring to the lack of new PPP for small business owners and, generally speaking, most people not named Jeff Bezos. For those traders who recall 2008, Buffett actually sued the same language, word-for-word, to...

14Dec11:17 amEST

We Made It

With the final full week of trading in the year 2020 underway, those speculators still liquid should not, well, sell themselves short. Understanding that surviving another year in markets is never something to overlook may seem like small potatoes to those expecting daily 100% returns. But over the long run you would be surprised how...

13Dec12:59 pmEST

Weekend Overview and Analysis 12/13/20 {Video}

The following video is a brief, condensed version of the full-length Weekend Video Strategy Session which I present each weekend to members of Market Chess Subscription Services. In the longer version, I offer tons of actionable trade ideas, educational content, and in-depth objective analysis across all markets. Please click here for more...

11Dec10:42 amEST

It's Not a Bet on Calamity

Did you know that the silver precious metal is the best electrical and thermal conductor of all the metals? In other words, the industrial uses for silver are far more substantial than many would care to acknowledge or even admit, as it throws a wrench into the whole stereotype that precious metal bugs are only interested in touting their "pet...

10Dec4:20 pmEST

Stock Market Recap 12/10/20 {Video}

The following video is a brief, condensed version of the Stock Market Recap which I present each evening to members of Market Chess Subscription Services. In the longer version, I offer tons of actionable trade ideas, educational content, and in-depth objective analysis across all markets. If you enjoy my videos and blog posts, then please...

10Dec11:31 amEST

Potato, Potahto; Nuclear, Nucular

It is hard to overstate just how significant the $12.30/$12.40 price area is for one of the larger cap uranium miners, Cameco (CCJ). On the multi-year look, below, you can see as much, with that price zone actually signifying the prior 2008/9 bear market lows. With uranium being soundly out of favor for the last decade or so, a renewed...

09Dec3:18 pmEST

Do You Have What it Takes to Follow the Road Less Traveled?

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. -Robert Frost A more pronounced selloff in tech, namely the wildly extended chips, is giving some of the newcomer speculators since March a chance to cut their teeth today. At issue now is whether we are witnessing another mild,...

09Dec10:02 amEST

Whole Market is Full of Rats

Another sleepy, aloof open seems to generally favor bulls in an ongoing levitation for the major indices above even their 20-day simple moving averages, an otherwise near-term reference point which has remain untested on the Dow, S&P, small caps, and Nasdaq since just after Election Day. One month of trading in the market is a long time to go...