The past two days notwithstanding, I believe we are at the start of a lengthy bear market in equities. We certainly have not received “the big break” yet, but I offer these three charts. First is the Russell 2000 accompanied by the adva…
All this decay is so incremental that nobody thinks it possible that it could ever accumulate into a risk that threatens the entire system.
As you know, the Chinese stock market (and property market, for that matter) has been a complete fiasco. To give you a taste of what’s been going on, I present to you a quantity of stocks (ironically, eight of them, which I deliberately chose…
U.S. and global oil benchmark prices climbed to their highest levels since 2011 and 2014, respectively, after OPEC and its oil-producing allies decided to stick to their plan of gradual output hikes despite the escalation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict…
Although I don’t trade it myself, I just saw this admonition pop up on one of my brokerage accounts. So let me get this straight – – a financial instrument is designed to allow people to take advantage of increase in volatility, b…
Residents of Greece would have had to pay approximately six percent of their average monthly wage for a full tank of gas this past Monday due to the price hike connected to Russia’s continued invasion of Ukraine. This is the highest figure among all OE…
Good morning, everyone. Well, right on schedule, here’s our every single morning “everything’s gonna be just fine” rally on the /ES. I’ve grown accustomed to these, and given the market that I prefer (a long, slow, gri…
According to the IMF, Russian sovereign debt default is no longer “improbable” as the country’s economy is reeling from sanctions and other international scrutiny following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces in late February.However, the IMF doe…
I wrapped up deploying my cash this morning. I am all in. Of my many positions, there is a certain class of them which are gargantuan rounded tops that I believe have particularly good downside potential in terms of good old simple raw dollar value…