It was an ugly day for the Dow Industrial Average yesterday with a rather large intraday reversal. While the point loss was modest, at down just 42 points, it marked the 7th consecutive negative print for the index. The Dow also experienced a more than 170-point swing intraday from positive to negative territory. On the…
That wasn’t as bad as it could have been or maybe even should have been, now was it? The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.2%, or 287.26 points, to close at 24,700.21. At its intraday low, the Dow was down by as many as 420 points. Tuesday’s decline marked the 6th straight drop for the Dow,…
But China does not purchase $200 billion worth of goods from the United States. There in lay the problem for China with the latest declaration from President Trump and his call for another $200 billion in tariffs to be enacted against the Asian nation. The news broke late last night that President Trump directed the…
Written by Lance Roberts | Jun, 11, 2018 Crashes Matter A Lot In Part I – Buy and Hold can be Hazardous to your Wealth, we showed how the stock markets tend to cycle between growth and decline. Passive, “buy and hold” investors who hold their investments through the cycles are likely to endure long periods of time…...
In an investing world that is filled with various investment vehicles, strategies and practices, risk vs. reward usually plays a very critical role in how individual investors participate in the market. An era of central bank Quantitative Easing practices has been blamed for many of the extremes in both the equity and fixed income markets…...
Are you a short-VOL/VIX trader? If so you probably know what it feels like to have your trading style/strategy heavily scrutinized and even demonized in the media and seemingly endlessly. It’s with this sentiment in mind that I share with you our latest thoughts on certain of the media-driven insights on the volatility of the…...
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Can it do it? Can the markets really shrug off the FOMC rate hike, the ECB’s scheduling of an end to its QE program and the declaration of $50bn in tariffs on Chinese goods? It’s not looking like U.S. equities will perform such a herculean accomplishment at the moment, with futures lower by less than…
You’ve heard the old adage, “It’s all fun and games until the Fed raises rates”, haven’t you? Of course that’s more a derivative of the more understood adage, but after a market pullback that ensued on the heels of the Fed announcing a .25% rate hike yesterday, I thought it fitting. So here we go…
While equity markets around the globe hit the pause button ahead of an onslaught of central bank announcements and press conferences, the beat must go on. In yesterday’s trading action, the Dow finished basically flat with the S&P 500 up .17% to 2,786. The tech-heavy Nasdaq was the outperformer once again, finishing higher by .57…
