We launched our ETF Income Edge service a few months ago to help investors understand the rapidly growing world of high-yielding, option-strategy ETFs. Fund sponsors launch new funds into the category every week. Since using options allows for many strategies, I love reading about how a new fund plans to operate and its investment strategy. […]
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High-Yield Investments Outshine Tech Stocks
If you regularly follow the news, you may, like me, feel that the world is slowly spinning out of control. In my world of investment research, these thoughts lead to the question: What investment products and strategies will protect my wealth, income, and lifestyle? My thoughts today were triggered by this Zerohedge headline (premium subscription […]
Is Risk Consolidating in the S&P 500?
Today, I wanted to quickly show you a “Risk is Everywhere” chart. The chart has a lot to do with the lack of meaningful one-day volatility in the S&P 500 right now. Full disclosure, I found this piece of research on Twitter from Bespoke, but it is incredibly fascinating nonetheless. It talks about there being […]
This Could Be the Best Fed Rate Hike Trade in 28 Years
As expected, the Federal Reserve (Fed) raised rates in it June 15th meeting. Until then, the assumption was that the Fed would incrementally increase rates by 50 basis points (bps) at the next handful of meetings. However, after the hot consumer price index (CPI) number the week prior, the Fed was pushed into a more […]
This Trade Can Make Money Whether a Stock Goes Up or Down
One of my favorite trading strategies—and one that big-time money managers and volatility traders use—is trading an iron condor. An iron condor is selling a downside put spread and an upside call spread at the same time. In this scenario, you cap your risk because you have a spread with a defined loss. A common […]
The Drug Trade of 2022
There is multi, multi, multi-billions of dollars earmarked by the drug companies. Why? They want to acquire up-and-coming competitors and those with valuable patents they can exploit. For about 7 years, the drug industry has drastically underperformed the S&P 500. However, look over my shoulder and see how this narrative could change very soon. Every […]
Where do tech stocks go from here in 2022?
I predict in 2022, we could see some sluggishness to the S&P 500 as it hits all-time highs. But what about tech? Many tech stocks like Zoom, Peloton have seen their valuations obliterated over the last 3 months. Still, tech overall has matched the S&P 500 in returns over the last 2 years… However, while […]
3 trades to make ASAP to stay in the black in May
Last week, I released a video talking about how we’re likely to see a choppy May… And already we’re seeing it. Just in the last few days… S&P was up 3 points in April…then I posted my video and now it’s down a point. More could be coming. In fact, I believe a 5-10% drop […]