A Flaw in the Tepper Analysis
When David Tepper speaks, the market listens. In Autumn, 2010, Tepper, the highly successful billionaire hedge fund manager, explained that for stock investors, the Fed had your back. Using options jargon he said that there was a “put” (downside protection) regardless of what the economy did. While causation is always hard to prove, the comments ...
Unsupportable Fervor Requires an ETF Wish List
“I’ve never seen THIS in 34 years of investing,” quipped media personality Jim Cramer on Monday. What was Mr. Cramer referring to? For the most part, he expressed excitement over the stock market’s ability to reward stocks of companies that missed earnings expectations as well as to reward those that beat expectations by not taking profits. In other words, ...
Disjointed Market – Where are flows Going?
Equities and 30-yr bonds are far from the only two asset classes as investors have several other choices when allocating capital, but I want to touch on these two sectors as their movements should not be ignored when making your investment decisions. It took six years but stocks are back above levels seen in 07’ as one can see a pronounced ”V” formation ...
Are Consumers Ready to Buy? What about Housing?
The economic recovery, to the surprise of nearly everyone, has been consumer-driven. This has occurred despite increased savings and an overall improvement in household balance sheets. Businesses have been cautious to invest and to hire. State and local governments have been slashing spending and employees. I expect a week with a consumer focus. It starts with ...
Can Chairman Bernanke Talk Investors Out Of Higher-Yielding ETFs?
Sometimes, when the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve speaks, my diaphragm pushes on my lungs hard enough to inhibit breathing. It’s not that I don’t admire Ben Bernanke on a variety of levels. It’s just hard to believe that a man of remarkable intelligence is serious when he says, “In light of the current low interest-rate environment, we are watching ...
Have You Checked Your Bios Lately?
When one looks at the current trend off the November lows a few things stand out – namely the pullbacks in terms of the duration, the depth and the percentages they’ve pulled back. Take a look at the daily charts below of the NASDAQ Comp and the SPX. They pretty much tell the story within the current trend. So you see? Overall within the ...
Symptoms Don’t Lie
A good doctor will not simply make a diagnosis based on measurements. The symptoms and complaints expressed by the patient are at least as important in making a determination as the data provided by diagnostic tools. When the data says one thing and the symptoms continuously say another, it makes sense to question the reliability of the instruments. This would ...
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It’s Mid May – Did you ‘Go Away’?
A Flaw in the Tepper Analysis
Unsupportable Fervor Requires an ETF Wish List
Now It’s Really Time For A Flat Tax
Revisiting Consistently Strong Closes
Dollar Rally (What the Skeptics are Saying)
Live Cattle (What’s for Lunch?)
Disjointed Market – Where are flows Going?
What Monday’s Weak Breadth Could Foreshadow
Why I don’t Fear Trading in Front of Earnings
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