Bitcoin breaking out to the upside again in its march forward has many wondering whether they should invest in it. This should only be done if you understand how to read a chart. To those who seek to understand financial markets fundamentally, Bitcoin trading presents itself as quite a conundrum. If you are prone to […]
With the U.S. economy still mired in a huge recession, and the economic recovery in Europe further along, this has some people concluding European stocks should be added. You would think that people who are paid for their expertise in advising on stocks would at least pay a little more attention. These are folks that, […]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average needs all the help in its losing battle to keep up with the other 2 major stock indexes. Things are about to get even more challenging. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, commonly known as just the Dow, is the grandfather of major stock indexes, going all the way back to […]
Treasuries are rallying a bit after we got to see what the GDP losses were last quarter in black and white. The idea that this represents investors fleeing to safer assets is amusing. Yesterday’s article contrasted the fear that people feel about the stock market versus the actual fear that may be going on in […]
The numbers are in for U.S. second quarter GDP, and it dropping 32.9% on an annualized basis is the scariest one ever. The stock market hasn’t been scared though. Fear has played a bigger than normal role in 2020, whether that be the massive amount that COVID-19 produced, the panic that hit the stock market […]
Bad strategies die a slow death in the investment world, but they do eventually decay. The idea that book value bargains are a good idea isn’t quite dead yet it seems. Benjamin Graham is considered to be the father of value investing, a process of looking for bargains with stocks that have fallen out of […]
It just got a lot easier to understand how far apart the opposing stimulus views of the two parties are. Democrats want $3 trillion, while Republicans only want to spend a trillion. The first time around, back when the economy was placed in quarantine, it wasn’t so easy to get the Democrats and Republicans to […]
Gold’s rally in 2011 was one for the ages, where the price reached $1,889 an ounce. Many wondered how long it would take us to get back there, but wonder no more. Gold isn’t always the best place to have your money, in spite of how so many people throw money into it blindly, paying […]
More and more people are “protesting” against the disproportionate growth of the top 5 stocks in the S&P 500. Amid a sea of nonsense, there’s a valid concern buried within. It’s not so difficult to understand how publicly traded financial assets work, and all we have to do is describe them in the way that […]
State Street’s SPDR sector ETFs were the first to allow investors to invest in S&P 500 stocks by sector, and still are the most popular. Vanguard is right on their tail now though. Many investors take a diversified approach to their stock investments, where they seek a wide exposure to different types of stocks in […]