We Were Prepared | Now Is the Time To Keep Your Cool
For the past few months we have been talking about the possibility of the kind of selloff we are experiencing at the moment. Investors became too bullish and too complacent…
What Keeps a Billionaire Investor Up at Night?
If I were a billionaire, probably nothing at all... Every time we open up a web page, newspaper, magazine or flip on our favorite TV channel, we are told about all…
Stock Prices | A Battle Between Optimism and Pessimism
The battle between optimism and pessimism is playing out in full regalia. After falling about 5.9% last week, the S&P500 rocketed 2.7% higher yesterday, putting in the best one-day performance in…
Will this Chip Shot Hit a Birdie?
Tech has been the leader of the market rally since the financial crisis. We have noted in previous articles that the NASDAQ index has finally reached the peak reached in…
Hated Stocks
Investor sentiment swings from optimism to pessimism and back again continuously. Sometimes these emotional swings attach themselves to individual stocks, sometimes they attach themselves asset classes, technologies or even counties.…
Oracle Post Mortem | The Future was Clear, Investor Response was Not
Yesterday, we added to the discussion of Oracle started by the gang on Options Action on Friday. Carter and Mike discussed an earnings play. Oracle reported earnings last night and…
Fed Week | What’s Next for Bonds and Rates
The Federal Reserve Board is having their policy meeting this week. Investors and prognosticators are keeping a sharp eye on this meeting as this is the first meeting where Jerome…
Carter Worth Sees the Future of Oracle, Michael Sees a Trade
On Friday, March 16th, Carter Worth looked into the price action of Oracle Inc. (ORCL) the data management company that offers a comprehensive and fully integrated stack of cloud applications, platform…
When Will We Have the Next Recession
Economics is a dismal science. We call it that because everyone likes to talk about economics as a core of their investment process, but it does not seem to help.…
Is the Equity Market Attempting to Please Everyone?
The equity markets have been sending out mixed signals and trading in a way that does not occur very often. It seems that the price action of the various broad market…