Friday, September 20, 2024
Most stocks are correlated to the indexes in some way. However, small cap stocks have been beaten down tremendously in the past couple years. Even with stocks rallying from October 2022 lows… small cap stocks aren’t finding relief. Today, I pulled up a chart showing the correlation between small cap stocks and the S&P 500. […]
Investors never know for sure if a company is going to post better earnings results than expected. That’s why there are always earnings surprises. However, that doesn’t keep traders from making educated guesses. In the case of Amazon (AMZN), a trader recently purchased 17,000 bullish call spreads that expire the day after earnings come out. […]
High current yields and growing dividends are the cure for the directionless market. And if we are in for a “lost decade” from the stock market, yield plus growing dividends is one strategy that will still produce positive total returns. The strategy works in any market—bull, bear, or stagnant. Let me show you. Over the […]
It may come as a surprise to some, but when sports and entertainment are joined together, it is very popular—and therefore a real moneymaker. That’s why the recent news of one of the biggest names in entertainment is moving to take over one of the biggest in sport entertainment piqued my interest. Let me show […]
ETFs can often make for effective covered call trades because the price tends to be more stable than single stocks. In the case of SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF (XME), the stock has been range bound for much of the last six months. From a block trade we saw last week, a trader is […]
This week in Hidden Profits Report, I’m introducing a new feature. This is a topic I will revisit from time to time when I see the type of extraordinary opportunities I am going to talk about today. This part of Hidden Profits is for investors who want to get rich. I don’t mean “hitting the […]
With the fall of Silicon Valley Bank, the financial news media has remained focused on finding the next “crisis” of the day. The so-called banking crisis petered out after a couple of weeks, but that didn’t stop the pundits from using it to proclaim that commercial property values and commercial mortgages would be the next […]
The global transition away from fossil fuels in favor of low carbon energy sources is accelerating. In 2022, a little more than $1 trillion was invested in new technologies such as renewable energy, energy storage, carbon capture and storage, electric vehicles, and more. Not only is this a new annual record amount, but—for the first […]
I put out calls to traders and managers I know on Wall Street to get their take on the recent economic data. This is data the Federal Reserve also uses to make decisions… And they told me some surprising things. One of them being that bond yields look as if they’re about to collapse. We […]
Natural gas prices have been in a significant down trend since the middle of last year. A popular method of trading natural gas, the United States Natural Gas Fund (UNG) has gone from a high of over $30 to 52-week lows of around $6.50. However, a large options spread could suggest gas prices are set […]
