After 20 years in the retail and consumer goods sector, I became a research analyst and market strategist for Capital Ladder Advisory Group. Since 2011, I have published some 400+ articles surrounding mainstream retailers like Bed Bath & Beyond, Target, Costco and more. I've covered consumer goods corporations such as Apple, Keurig Green Mountain, SodaStream, Skullcandy, Fitbit and more. To date, I've garnered over a hundred media references to my analytics including Forbes. Presently, I am a contracted consultant to many retail and consumer goods companies in North America and manufacturing entities in China and Korea.
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It’s not often that the market allows you to hedge before a significant daily move, but that’s exactly what happened on Monday with the market opening flat to higher and before reversing course. In Finom Group’s weekly research report, we mentioned our desire to hedge against a probable move lower for the current reason, mainly…
The S&P 500 (SPX) weekly expected move was $72/points last week, but it blew past that once again and for the 5th time in the last 10 weeks. The market is proving less efficient here in the 4th quarter than in any of the previous quarters of the calendar year. What does this mean? In…
If you’re not hedged already, there is probably no better time than the present to start considering how to go about hedging your portfolio against risk. We’ll show you why, using simple screen shots in just a moment, but for now let’s briefly discuss the week that was and why we think reducing risk is…...
Thursday’s market activity was more troubling than what the daily chart assumes and when we broaden it out for the full year. While the October daily closing low proved, once again, to provide a floor for the S&P 500, these chart patterns tend to resolve unfavorably over the long run. What we’ve seen since the…
Hedging your long portfolio may be the best way to position oneself as global equities find more selling pressure following the steep declines on Wall Street from Tuesday. U.S. equity futures are pointing to another sharp decline as headlines broke overnight concerning the arrest of Huawie’s CFO. Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in…
BofA Merrill Lynch 2019 Market Outlook: From Peak to Trough, the Market Unfriends Stocks and Bonds, Likes Volatility, and Swipes Right on Cash CATEGORIES Global Markets Merrill Lynch Print to PDFRSS Feed Showing its age, the long bull market cycle of excess stock and bond returns is expected to finally wind down next year, but…...
So we had a pretty strong rally in the major indices on Monday. By now, everyone is aware that a “trade truce” between China and the U.S. has resulted in the latest market uptick. The media has taken to task the trade truce, describing it as lacking substance and less likely to prove an actual…
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