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CF Industries: CF

Industrial farming, as it is, depends heavily on fertilizer. The primary pure-play competitors in the fertilizer space who reside in the US are CF Industries (CF), Mosaic (MOS), Intrepid Industries (IPI), and Nutrient (NUT). This article is for paid members…
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Chevron: CVX

Unlike the average investor, we like the oil & gas sector of the economy. As much as we would like to see a transition to more efficient energy sources, that is just not happening. All we have to do is…
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What Ails UnitedHealth? (updated)

The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled by Fortune magazine. It ranks the top 500 U.S. companies by total revenue and is typically released around this time each year. The list includes both publicly traded and privately held companies.…
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Selling Volatility: SVXY

Selling volatility is a yield strategy. Volatility traders buy vol when it is cheap and sell it when it is expensive. Options market makers buy and sell options against stock as they provide liquidity to the market. That removes 80%…
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Panning for yield.

Most investors, particularly when they first start investing, are primarily concerned with capital appreciation. Parents saving for a child’s college education will only withdraw from those savings once their son or daughter begins attending. Saving for a down payment on…
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Discover Financial Services: DFS

Credit card products are the most profitable products in the financial services industry. I am also the most volatile. When the economy is chugging along, defaults are low and profits are high. When the economy goes into recession, defaults and…
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Update: Time to Take Profits & Reposition Exposure in XLE

XLE is the SPDR Select Energy Sector ETF that attempts to track the performance of Energy (oil & gas) stocks. In April of this year, after rebounding from the wipeout…

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The Week Ahead | 09/04/2018

Five Scenarios The Option Edge is Monitoring The US – China Trade Deal – On September 5th, 2018, the end of the comment period on the 25% on $200 million…

September 3, 2018
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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…

September 1, 2018
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Amazon.Com Inc: The Stock That Can Do No Wrong

Amazon.Com (AMZN) is the most loved stock in the US equity market today. We think that is quite a statement as investors also have a love affair with NVIDIA, Apple…

August 30, 2018
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Get Chemically Enhanced with LyondellBasell (LYB)

Today we turn our attention to a company we have traded successfully in the past, LyndellBasell (LYB). Over the past few years, the company has met our valuation criteria, so we…

August 29, 2018
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iQIYI, Inc (IQ) Trade Update

On 6-June-2018, we introduced our subscribers to iQIYI (pronounced “eye-chee-yee”). Recall that iQIYI is a Chinese version of NetFlix. It is important to note that IQ has a different in…

August 28, 2018
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High Fliers

The cannabis stocks are high as a kite! The question is, will they continue to fly or will they crash and burn. The big reason for the latest move in the…

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The Week Ahead | 08/27/2018

Global Spotlight Get Ready for More China Tariffs. Low-level U.S.-China trade talks ended again in stalemate, paving the way for another round of U.S. tariffs to go into effect, this time…

August 26, 2018
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The Semi’s Divided, But a Trade in Intel Awaits

Investors in semiconductor stocks have been having a great deal of trouble deciding what comes next for the share prices of companies that compete in this important sector of the…

August 24, 2018
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AMD Responding to a viewer regarding reporting and recommending.

Viewer “Craig,” writes csmythe44@hotmail.com I bet that idiot Michael Khouw is running for cover after shooting his mouth off on CNBC the other day in betting against AMD. It’s up another 5%…

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