Friday, February 7, 2025
The covered call trading strategy uses call options to generate extra income from stock investments without much added risk. No wonder income-focused investors like these trades. But for those who don’t want to dabble in options yourself, there’s a handful of single stock covered call ETFs that let you benefit from the strategy without the […]
The latest jobs numbers are great, with unemployment at just 3.6%. That’s very, very low. Great news, right? Lots of analysts seem to think so. But that’s because they seem to think things will just continue improving at the same rate as they have so far. In today’s video, I pull up a chart that […]
Today I am talking with Laura Hamilton | OTC Markets Group. Laura is a Vice President at OTC Markets Group, where she focuses on new business development for community banks across the US. In this role, Laura manages the OTCQX Banks market, where she advises both private and public community banks on trading and liquidity […]
While artificial intelligence (AI) grabs most of the financial news headlines in 2023, there is another area of technology that’s increasingly in the spotlight. This technology is related to the one thing everything else on the planet relies on: water. Earlier this year, the United Nations World Water Development Report 2023 made for grim reading. […]
I hear a lot of financial advisors (on the financial news networks) discussing how their clients like Treasury bills at current yields. The idea is that investors can safely invest in T-bills and avoid the next stock market crash. I have some thoughts on this investment tactic, because this is not nearly as good an […]
It’s the summer doldrums in the trading world, so traders are making due with whatever the market is willing to give. For instance, last week a strategist placed what appears to be a covered call trade in the Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLF). This popular financial sector ETF is generally not very volatile and […]
“Don’t fight the Fed.” Famed fund manager Marty Zweig came up with that one in 1970 and repeated it religiously until he passed away in 2013. The Federal Reserve has been raising rates since March of 2022, and Fed funds rates have gone from 0.25% to more than 5%. Three-month Treasury yields have risen from […]
Active investors typically hold a lot of different types of securities in their brokerage accounts. From interacting with my newsletter subscribers, I know that many of them think of every investment in their brokerage account as “stocks”; however, much of what we own may not be common stock shares. This may seem like a minor […]
One of the hottest topics of conversation on Wall Street, and among my colleagues like Tim Plaehn and Tim Melvin here at Investors Alley, is the state of the U.S. commercial real-estate market (CRE). The story on Wall Street, as articulated by media outlets such as Bloomberg, is that a $1.5 trillion “Wall of Debt”—mortgages […]
For 14 months in a row now, an obscure monthly report has been coming in higher than Wall Street expected. This unprecedented string of beats has infuriated the Fed… Pushed up stock markets… And sent ripples throughout the global economy. This Friday, July 7, early in the morning, the report comes out. And while Wall […]
