Is It Time to Repair Your AAPL?
Apple Inc is one of the most widely held stocks in the marketplace. This should not come as a surprise as it has a market capitalization of $700 billion, which…
The Fed Created the Volatility
We believe that the Fed is the primary culprit when talking about the business cycle and instability. Mark is not a big fan of the Fed and believes they do…
Now We Know Why Equity Prices are Falling… There is a Worm in the Apple
As we listen to financial commentators, analysts, portfolio managers, etc. we have heard a number of reasons why the stock market is falling in spectacular fashion. The most popular reasons for…
Here we go again
While we keep writing about our expectation for a continued selloff in the broad market averages, we are finding more and more really cheap stocks. But we are afraid to…
Track Record | How We Did in 2018
We present our ideas to our followers here at TheOptionsEdge.Com. Our first goal is to preserve capital. That is to say, we do our best to avoid losses and generate…
Happy New Year
2018 has come to a close and it was a year of ups, downs, joy, sadness, challenges, successes and disappointment, not to mention chaos. We are optimists here at the…
The Week Ahead | 12/31/2018
Global Spotlight Goodwill Gestures Ahead of Trade Negotiations. With one-third of the 90-day negotiation window already complete, China kept reminding the United States that it is making concerted efforts to address…
Disney (DIS): Still a “Mickey Mouse” Stock?
Last Friday, the panel on CNBC's Options Action took a look at Disney, the giant entertainment company everyone knows and loves. Carter Braxton Worth focused on the company's share price…
When Will We Hit Rock Bottom?
We are beginning to think it will be in January with an outside chance the mayhem continues until Early February. Equity markets have turned to from relentless selling to horrific back and…
Oil: The Market that Surprised us the Most
As any trading year comes to an end, we like to reflect on what we got right, we got wrong and what caught us by surprise. We thought for most…
Money-Supply Growth Falls to 9-Month Low as Mortgage Rates Rise
Money supply growth slowed in November, falling to the lowest rate recorded since February of this year. Overall, money-supply growth remains well below the growth rates experienced from 2009 to…
The Myth of the Neutral Interest Rate
In his speech to the Economic Club of New York on November 28, 2018, the Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell said that the US central bank’s policy interest rate…