ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on February 28, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) In June, 2012, I compared the short-term and long-term performance of the Ranger Equity Bear ETF (HDGE) against ProShares UltraShort S&P500 (SDS). I concluded that SDS was OK for short-term bearish … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on July 2, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) S&P Capital IQ’s Sam Stovall appeared on Nightly Business Report on Friday, June 29, 2012 to provide some statistics on how the stock market tends to perform in the second half … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on April 20, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) American Public Media’s Marketplace has a partnership with Gallup called “Attitude Check.” On April 19, Gallup appeared on Marketplace to announce the latest results of its poll of the saving and … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on March 7, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) When Energy Conversion Devices (ENERQ.PK) filed for bankruptcy in mid-February, I wrote “The Solar Fun Is Done For Now.” I should have also said that the “horror show has just begun” … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on March 6, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) In late September, selling in the stock market was intensifying, and I wrote a piece summarizing a list of stocks where insiders were buying their own stock. The performance since then … Read more