Friday, February 7, 2025
In our 48-Hour Income service, last week we sold a put on quantum computing company, IonQ (IONQ). The goal of the service is to generate 1% to 3% returns per week by selling 2-day puts in certain stocks. IONQ had earnings coming out so its options premiums were higher than normal. We chose a strike […]
Last week I got to spend some time with John Davi and Frank Tedesco of Astoria Advisors. Astori is a firm that specializes in research-driven investing and offers two exchange-traded funds for public investors, as well as research for investment advisors across the United States. The firm’s latest offering is an exchange-traded fund that focuses […]
Since October 2022, the broader stock market has experienced a nice recovery coming out of the bear market. However, real estate investment trusts (REITs) have not participated fully in the stock market gains of the last ten months. As a result, REITs look very undervalued and may be the next sector to move strongly higher. […]
Many of us have heard this old chestnut, usually attributed to Mark Twain: “Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.” A number of America’s richest people understand this, and are now among the country’s largest landholders. The list includes Jeff Bezos, the Ford family, Dr. Peter Buck (co-founder of Subway), Ted Turner, John Malone, and […]
While market sentiment is discussed all the time, it is rarely defined. That’s why in today’s Hidden Profit Report, I sat down to talk with Ray Micaletti of Relative Sentiment Technology. Ray has developed an approach that compares retail investor sentiment to institutional investor activity that gives valuable and actionable information about the condition of […]
There are a host of leading indicators out there investors can use to gauge the market, and one I like to watch in particular is the price of copper. So what I’ve done is compare two assets on a chart – the price of copper and the New York Stock Exchange. What the naked eye […]
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the idiom “to live off the fat of the land” this way: “to live very well by enjoying the best things that are available without having to work hard to get those things.” Investors can do this literally and sit back and watch their money grow, without doing much work, by […]
Last year, investors and savers rushed to buy Series I savings bonds as their inflation-linked yields approached 10%. Now, the yield on I bonds is much, much lower. If you purchased these bonds for the high yield last year, it may be time to cash them in and invest elsewhere. Let me explain why – […]
In our 48-Hour Income service, we sold a put on Fastly (FSLY) last week. The goal of the service is to generate 1% to 3% returns per week by selling 2-day puts in certain stocks. FSLY had earnings coming out so its options premiums were higher than normal. We chose a strike that gave us […]
It does not matter which metric or statistic you use. Stocks are not cheap based on any empirically proven valuation metric. The S&P 500 P/E ratio is over 25—not the highest level ever recorded, but certainly on the high end of the historical scale. And the average P/E ratio of the stocks in the tech-heavy […]
