Even
President Trump came out today and he
said the stock market might be in for
some short-term pain right but he says
it's worth it because we're going to get a long-term gain and of course he's
referring to his tariffs or a trade war
that we're gonna win this trade war and
that's going to deliver the long-term
gain. It ain't! We're gonna have
short-term pain and then the pain is
gonna get worse
in the long run.
Apr 9, 2018
Apr 6, 2018
Gold: A Tight Trading Range
If you
look at the gold chart the range
is really getting compressed. We're
not breaking out but we're not breaking
down. It's getting narrower and narrower, we're really consolidating.
Related trading instruments:
- Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX)
- Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ)
- SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD)
Apr 3, 2018
Stock Market: We Are In A Bear Market
We're in a
bear market, it's just not officially
acknowledged yet. You know, just like a lot of
times you know they don't acknowledge
the recession until after you have two
quarters of negative GDP growth but
clearly you're in the recession for a
long time before it's officially
admitted.
There's
one caveat if the Federal Reserve comes
in and changes the game by taking away
the rate hikes or launching QE 4 then we
may never make it to a bear market. But
if the Federal Reserve continues on its current path
and maintains the current pretense then
we are in a bear market and it's only a
question of time before it is officially
acknowledged.
Related trading instruments:
- SPDR S&P 500 Index ETF (SPY)
- SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA)
- iShares Russell 2000 Index ETF (IWM)
- Nasdaq 100 Index ETF (QQQ)
Apr 2, 2018
Stock Market: More Down Quarters To Come
The market action that I've
been observing really to me looks like a
bear market.
For the first quarter all the major
stock market indexes were down. This was
the first time in 10 quarters as we had 9 consecutive positive quarters (I
think that's a record).
The US
stock market finally broke that winning
streak we'll see how investors who
thought the US stocks can only go up may react to their
first down quarter in ten. But it's not
going to be the last down quarter, I
think this could be the beginning of
several more down quarters to come.
Related trading instruments:
- iShares Russell 2000 Index ETF (IWM)
- SPDR S&P 500 Index ETF (SPY)
- Nasdaq 100 Index ETF (QQQ)
- SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA)
Mar 28, 2018
Theres a Potential Huge Problem With Social Media Stocks (GOOG, FB, TWTR)
There's a potential huge problem with
these social media sites, Google (GOOG), Facebook (FB), Twitter (TWTR). You know everybody whose
business model is advertising where the
user pays nothing, if you want to
use Facebook, if you want to use Twitter, it costs nothing! It doesn't cost you
anything to have a Twitter account, to
have a Facebook account, it's all free!
Well if it's all free
how does Facebook make all this money? Well, they make all the money by selling
the data that they collect from all of
their users to advertisers or political campaigns or anybody who needs
personal information in order to market
their product or sell their product. That is the trade-off that everybody
makes - you get the service for free but you know that they're using your
information.
I think the public, potentially there could be a backlash regarding just how much information the social media companies are actually retaining.
How Bear Markets Operate
What a lot of people don't
realize is that the stock market has
some of its biggest gains daily gains
they occur in bear markets not in bull
markets. You have some spectacular
rallies in bear markets that is how bear markets operate.
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