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…
Update | Netflix (NFLX)
On Friday, Mike took a second look at a trade in Netflix he initially discussed 2 weeks ago. On 14-September-2017, NFLX closed the days trading $365.56 a share and show…
Is Tech About to Wreck?
The equity markets never make investing easy for the active trader. For a few years now, the market was in a 1 decision market. Buy the FANGs, AAPL, GOOG, FB (until…
Update | Options Expiration
Standard Monthly Options expire at the end of the week. Since we have 9 open positions to address, we thought we should discuss them so our readers can decide what they…
Mises Moment | Central Banks Enrich a Select Few at the Expense of Many
Developing an understanding of how free markets work in the absence of government manipulation (regulation, tax, permitting, etc.) and economic central planning by any group of people (central banks) is…