The Week Ahead | 1/20/2020
Happy Monday. Good Luck out there this week. Global Spotlight A Hail Mary for Peace in Libya. The long-awaited international conference on Libya will take place Jan. 19 in Berlin, but…
Netflix Earnings (NFLX)
Netflix will be announcing earnings after the close of trading on Tuesday. The folks at CNBC did a pre-earnings rundown on Friday. It seems that expectations are rather elevated going…
Decred is Incred(ible)
Today we are going to talk about crypto. While our primary focus is on stocks and options on stocks and ETFs, we see the whole crypto space as (1) an…
Expedia Group Inc. (EXPE)
Expedia Group, Inc. (EXPE) is an online travel company. The Company operates through four segments: Core Online Travel Agencies, Trivago, Egencia, and HomeAway. In doing so the company attempts to…
Options Expiration
Standard monthly options are set to expire this Friday. We have 10 trades that we have discussed over the past few months that have not been closed out and are…
The Week Ahead | 1/13/2020
Welcome to the year 2020. What a roller coaster this has been already. Are inflation fears warranted this week? That is one question investors are asking. There are sseveral reports in…
Boston Scientific (BSX)
Boston Scientific Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices that are used in hospitals and doctors' offices throughout the world. They are a lifesaver for many. BSX has been a…
Best and Worst Performing Asset Classes and Equity Market Sectors in 2019
If you think back almost 12 months, you’ll remember that the markets opened the year with extreme levels of volatility. Stocks had just finished the worst year in a decade. Then…
Glittering Gold (GLD)
The price of gold has been on the rise since the end of 2015. Does this mean a new bull market is underway? This article is for paid members -…
Bonds (TLT) & Repo
Long-term bonds are in an interesting situation. The Fed has backed away for Quantitative Easing some time ago. But then the REPO issue raised its ugly head. This article is…
Now is Not the Time to Trade
We do not have a trade suggestion today. Our thinking since the turn of the year is that the market is due for a sizable correction. But the correction is…
Charles Schwab Corp (SCWB): The Trend is Not Your Friend
The stock brokerage business (now called wealth management) has really changed over the past 10-15 years. The industry was once one where the main source of revenues was the commission…