New York Traders Expo March 7 to 9
Mark will speak at this year’s Traders Expo in Brooklyn on Monday, March 9. The talk will take place late in the afternoon from 4:15 pm to 5:00 pm. I…
Is Tesla (TSLA) About to Play Catchup
Market prices are gyrating in the most chaotic pattern in recent memory. It seems that every stock goes up massively or down massively together on an emotional whim. In this…
Sit and Wait
After a 550 point (16%) decline in the S&P500, equity prices are bouncing to the upside. Some will argue that the selling is over and in time, new all-time highs…
Pfizer, Inc. (PFE) Might Make Investors Look Wiser!
The equity markets had a big rebound yesterday. Some might say the worst is over. Others might say that prices rarely move in a straight line and we should expect…
The Week Ahead | 03/02/2020
Happy Monday. Good Luck out there this week. Global Spotlight Israel’s Third Election in Less Than a Year. On March 2, Israeli voters go to the polls — again. But recent…
Boeing (BA) Take the Money and Run
Boeing is one of those investment ideas where we have had a strong opinion. The narrative in the financial press is that the issues with respect to the 737-Max-8 will…
Tesla Trade Modification (TSLA)
Mike discussed a bearish trade structure on TSLA stock back in late January on Options Action. The share price had ripped higher in previous day's trading and Mike put together…
SPY: Time to Adjust the Volatility & Crash Trades
Well, that did not take long. In our post on 25-February-2020, we noted that an important bullish trend line was decisively broken to the downside. Our initial reaction was that…
What’s Next for Gold (GLD)
If you listen to the mainstream financial media and the "gold bugs," you might hear the argument that the price of gold is increasing because of the Wuhan virus and…
SPY Update: Equities Catch a Flu and What is the Investor to Do?
Yesterday, the equity market took it on the chin. The DJIA, SP500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000 all fell by at least 3%. The headline number was the drop in the…
The Week Ahead | 2/24/2020
Coronavirus Spreads Outside China. Chains of COVID-19 infection in secondary and tertiary countries are posing increasing risks globally. South Korea saw a massive spike in its total infections through the…
Did Morgan Stanley (MS) Buy the Top?
Morgan Stanley (MS) announced that they would buy E*Trade (ETFC) in a transaction valued at about $13 billion. To help ensure a deal gets done, both parties have agreed to…