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.

J.P. Morgan MacroView Into Q3 2021 Quarter-End

Markets to continue following the path of COVID recovery Cross-asset Strategy: Risk markets recovered from the technical sell-off, as we called for last week. COVID cases continue to decline (falling by ~28% in the US and ~13% globally over the past week), which we believe remains the main driver of risk markets, and this trend…...

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Short-Termisms: Best Remedy for Shutdown and Tapering, Is A Shutdown and Tapering

Scary prescient, scary! I’m referring to what our chief market strategist Seth Golden wrote in last week’s Research Report. While he often has a lot to say and writes with a great amount of detail that can seem a daunting task just to “soak it all in”, it is proven worth the while. Here is…...

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Weekly State of the Market: Diagnosing Drawdown For Opportunity

“We have to acknowledge that overall breadth is weaker than it was during the biggest market drawdown during Q1 and to-date. Thus, the market has less overall support to resist downside should the selling pressure resume early next week and ahead of the FOMC meeting. There’s nothing wrong with recognizing and adjusting to the the…...

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How Does The September Season Resolve For Investors?

The significant breadth strength of the 2020-2021 bull market has provided investors with a tremendous advance since the March 2020 lows. Breadth has proven so strong since the turn of the year that many of the stock market’s seasonal tendencies have been overwhelmed in favor of the bullish continuation pattern. September, however, has thus far…...

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Weekly State of the Market: Some Great TIPS

“I don’t think you can get to be a really good investor over a broad range without doing a massive amount of reading. I don’t think any one book will do it for you.” -Charlie Munger Feel free to review the weekly State of the Market video via the provided link here! Retail investors less…...

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Planting New Positions For Future Profit Harvests

Welcome back Finom Group traders and investors! Two weeks ago the markets struggled, but still managed to eek out some gains. The S&P 500 managed to produce a new all-time high for a 9th consecutive month on September 2, 2021, but only achieved a .15% gain on the week. The defensive posture/positioning of the market…...

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Weekly State of the Market: September Getting Dicey Already?

  Keep it simple and know your ABC’s of investing: Always, Buy, Corrections!! If you would like to watch the live State of the Market video, click the provided link! The S&P 500 was up more than 20% by the end of August for the first time since 1997 and it has made a new…...

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