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.

The Volatility Trading Complex

The equity market, for which we’ll use the S&P 500 (SPX) as our guide, will always maintain varying degrees of volatility. Volatility can be managed and absorbed by investors in a variety of ways. Having said that, there is only 1 way in which to trade the market, WITH VOLATILITY! Please take note of the…...

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Four Trading Weeks Left In 2020: Weekly Must Knows

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,…

Flash-Back to the Future: Investors Ringing The Bell

Welcome back to our weekend Research Report and look inside all the macro-market driving forces for which we analyze the landscape alongside investors/traders. With only 4 trading weeks to go in 2020, it goes without saying that the macro-market outlook is likely to improve in 2021, given the unprecedented deteriorations in many macro-market factors we…...

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2021 Opportunity, But Not Before Another Shakeout

Investors are increasingly embracing the recovery. We laid out our bullish 12 month view in our 2021 Outlook (Show Me the Money!) and spent last week talking with investors around the globe. Our call for higher earnings to drive returns seemed mostly consensus and we received little push back on our call for multiples to…...

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Analysts Dissect All The Moving Parts

Goldman Sachs chief political economist Alec Phillips Goldman Sachs now offers that it’s “base case” for the next fiscal relief package no longer anticipates a stimulus before 2021, resulting in a 50% cut to its Q4 GDP forecast, from 6% growth to 3%. Its chief political economist Alec Phillips writes that with Congress having recessed for Thanksgiving…...

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Weekend Update YouTube-Digest

Please click our link to the latest Finom Group YouTube video and subscribe to our channel for future video updates! “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” – Vladimir Ilyich Lenin SPX has made 584 new all-time highs since 1990 SPX has made 24 new highs in 2020 alone…

Weekly State of the Market: 11/19/2020

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 review the decline that was October and the potential market returns for November and beyond. The market has responded to the election with a robustness of breadth and has moved to focus…...

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Morgan Stanley Raises to 3,900 on $193 in Earnings

Show Me the Money! 2020 was all about beta and understanding how equity markets trade in and around a recession that handed us the fattest pitch we’ve seen in a decade. 2021 will be much more about stock picking (alpha) and should favor those companies that can deliver earnings growth that isn’t already expected or…...

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