Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave When First We Update a Spreadsheet from Fed Data I got into a bit of a pickle this…
The answer to the question, “What should I do to my portfolio today (this week, this month)? is almost always nothing. Humans, and especially portfolio managers, have a hard time believing that doing nothing is the right response….to anything…or nothing. We are programmed to believe that success comes from doing things, not not doing things. […]
Monetary policy can be implemented through outright purchases or sales of securities, which permanently changes the size of the Federal Reserve’s System Open Market Account (SOMA) portfolio.
While ebullient markets have briskly moved on, I’m not done with Archegos.
The lesson of China’s Cultural Revolution in my view is that once the lid blows off, everything that was linear (predictable) goes non-linear (unpredictable).
An analysis of COVID-19 vaccination progress and the number of vaccines in use around the world shows that relying on a high number of vaccines can have positive effects in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.Most countries around the world have…
Worry about the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is predictably bearing down on the minds of Americans most heavily, relegating the biggest stressor of former years, worry about health care, to rank two. According to the American Psychological Association,…
Today’s Screen Game was a virtual tie. There were 30 buy signals and 31 sell signals. But one of the sell signals was an inverse…
Thirteen months ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization officially announced that COVID-19 could be classified as a pandemic. “The WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned both by the alarming leve…
When I first opened my intraday chart today I saw this and thought, “Oh mygawd. It’s over.”
Knowing that I had left massive long positions in my trading account overnight, I immediately went into atrial fibrillation and started having chest pains.