Should You Play the Dead CAT Bounce?
On Friday, the Options Action panel took a look at Caterpillar, Inc. (CAT) the big industrial machine manufacturing company. For the last few years, CAT has looked overpriced to us,…
De-Risk Your Portfolio Before the Election
The elections are coming up this Tuesday and this has us quite nervous. Animosity is running high and so are the stakes. The equity markets have been very volatile this…
Crypto Update
It was not long ago that people were talking about the volatility in the price of crypto. That day seems to have come and gone. It seems that even CNBC…
Value Investors are Mad as Hell
And they are not going to take it anymore. Or maybe not. If you look back over the past 100 years or so, value investing has delivered higher returns to investors…
China | Shaping Up to be an Interesting Story
The news flow with respect to China's equity and bond market has turned decidedly negative. This is quite natural as the major market equity indexes describing the return performance of Chinese…
The Bulls are getting Bitter on Twitter
It is becoming ever more clear that Mike has a hot hand at the moment. On 7-September-2018, Mike noted on Options Action that Twitter (TWTR) was looking quite wobbly. The…
What’s Next for US Equity Prices?
It is no news to those who follow the equity markets from a distance or for those who have capital at risk, that the US and indeed the global equity…
Close Freeport McMoRan (FCX) Trade
On August 15 of this year, we took a closer look at the price of copper and one of the biggest copper producers, Freeport McMoRan, the big mining copper that…
Close TLT Trade | Looks Like Bond Sell Off May Be Over For Now
The bond market has been a tricky affair the past year or so. There have been both fundamental and technical arguments that would support the bullish and bearish case. Fortunately…
Are Interest Rates About to Bite?
On 11-September-2018, we changed our short-term minds on interest rates. The bond market has had us particularly concerned throughout the year. After a selloff in Q1, long-term government bonds went into a…