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.

Weekly State of the Market: Is The Bull Getting Tired?

Welcome to this week’s State of the Markets. Please click the following link to review this week’s SOTM. In this week’s episode, we take a look at the best time to own stocks, fund flow strength, breadth strength and misnomers about valuations. Can the S&P 500 make it to 4,000 before having a more protracted consolidation period? “Markets change minute by minute.…...

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Morgan Stanley: Reaching Herd Immunity

When can the US achieve broad vaccination of its population: Using the current rate of daily vaccinations (red line, Exhibit 1), we simulated different scenarios that forecast potential vaccine uptake by YE21 (black lines, Exhibit 1) which could lead to herd immunity (see our note here). In our analysis, we consider only the US population…...

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Bullish Breadth & Squeezing VIX: Weekly Nifty 9

Welcome to another trading week!! In appreciation of all of our Basic Membership level participants and daily readers of finomgroup.com content, we offer the following excerpts from our Weekly Research Report. Our weekly Report is extremely detailed and has proven to help guide investors and traders during all types of market conditions with thoughtful insights and analysis, graphs,…

Market History Guides as VIX Finally Breaks Below 20

The strong start to the year for risk assets was upended in the final week of January, as the rise of Reddit retail traders managed to produce outsized fear amongst the hedge fund community. With that, came massive deleveraging that hadn’t been seen since March 2020 and prior to that in 2009. Morgan Stanley: Monday…...

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Weekly State of the Market: Market Trends 2/11/2021

Welcome to this week’s State of the Markets. Please click the following link to review this week’s SOTM. In this week’s episode, we take a look at some breadth studies with respect to 3 of the major indices to dissect overbought conditions and to validate why we remain of the opinion that market pullbacks are breeding grounds for investor opportunities. “Learn…...

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Morgan Stanley: Riding The Cyclical Market Wave

Alpha over Beta. The wild price swings of the past month are a function of two things in our view: 1)excess leverage in the financial system and 2) the market contemplating the transition of the economy from early to mid cycle as the reopening draws near. The good news is that VAR shocks that happen…...

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A Simple Evaluation of Two Decades of Inflation Targeting: Lessons for the New Monetary Policy Strategy

by Matthew Famiglietti and Carlos Garriga Since the mid-1990s, the Federal Reserve System has either implicitly or explicitly had an annual inflation target (IT) of around 2 percent. The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee’s (FOMC’s) preferred inflation measure to meet this target is core personal consumption expenditures (PCE), which explicitly excludes the prices on food and fuel to…

Weekly State of the Market: 2/4/2021

Welcome to this week’s State of the Markets with Wayne Nelson and Seth Golden. Please click the following link to review this week’s SOTM. In this week’s episode, we deconstruct the January Barometer, look into just how expensive the market has become (maybe) and continue to validate where investors can find the greatest returns for their investing capital! “An investor without…...

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Morgan Stanley: It’s Not A Bubble, It’s Not

Correction has arrived, positioning and leverage should do the rest. A combination of peaking rate of change in M1/M2and aggressive short squeezes has led to a significant degrossing by hedge funds. Markets corrected 3-5% with many of our favored trades taking a much needed and expected hit. This is normal in an exuberant bull market…...

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