Thursday, November 28, 2024
Last week, I made several presentations at the MoneyShow conference in Orlando. For one talk, I covered the pros and cons of covered call ETFs. These high-yield ETFs can bring a lot of income into your portfolio. This week, two of my recommendations announced surprisingly large distributions. I’ll take the money! Let’s take a look […]
It’s earnings season, so there’s been plenty of options action in single stock names. Recently, a strategist purchased what appears to be a very bullish call spread in Disney (DIS). The call spread – buying one call and selling another at a higher price in the same expiration period – doesn’t expire until right after […]
Last week I made several presentations at the MoneyShow in Orlando. I enjoy shows like this, where I can meet you, my subscribers, and get information on other investment ideas. With the stock bear market this year, many investors wanted information about alternate investment ideas. Investing in whiskey barrels or casks has become a hot […]
Elon Musk has certainly been busy: first, he bought Twitter, and now there’s news that his car company, Tesla (TSLA), may be looking to take a major stake in one of the world’s mining giants. The Financial Times reports that last year, Tesla began preliminary talks with Swiss commodities company Glencore (GLNCY) about taking a […]
A few weeks ago, I called this bear market rally going on in my free Thursday video. Today, in my newest Thursday video market update, I’m now making a prediction on where the S&P 500 could hit by year end. I’m looking strictly at the technicals of the chart which is what I base my […]
The whole growth-versus-value investing debate must be one of the dumbest discussions of all time. That may sound funny coming from someone who uses a value-oriented approach to picking bank stocks, REITs, and closed-end funds. Surely, I of all people believe that value investing works. It’s true – I do believe it works, and I […]
Hedging against a big stock selloff can be expensive when using options. One way to reduce the cost is by using options spreads. A more complex spread that can be useful in this situation is a put butterfly. A strategist bought over 20,000 put butterflies in SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) that expire at the […]
On September 15, Adobe (ADBE) agreed to purchase the privately held design software company Figma for roughly $20 billion. The purchase price, which Adobe will pay half in cash and half in stock, is double what Figma was valued at in its most recent private funding round in 2021, and 10 times its 2019 valuation. […]
Last week, several formerly high-flying, large-cap tech stocks fell back to earth after disappointing third-quarter earnings results. Investors counting on these well-known names will be disappointed. Instead, it’s time to look at companies that put investors first… Third-quarter earnings from Alphabet (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), and Meta Platforms (META) came out on Wednesday, October 26. Much […]
To help hold down fuel and energy prices, the Biden administration has been selling oil out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), to the tune of three million barrels per week since the start of the year. Now, with the SPR at its lowest level since the 1980s, the administration’s plan to refill the reserve […]
