ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
The Catalyst: Algorhythm Holdings (RIME) Algorhythm Holdings, a micro-cap (now worth almost $5M) former karaoke machine company, announced its SemiCab AI platform can handle 400% more freight volume without adding staff. This offering is part of the company’s attempt to tap into a $3 trillion industry that the company claims wastes $1 trillion. Algorhythm claims … Read more
Zero-emissions truck company Nikola (NKLA) has been a short-seller’s dream for almost two months given the pressure from sellers and a rapidly expanding float. As a pre-revenue company with no product in the market and a multi-billion dollar market cap, Nikola naturally attracts a lot of scrutiny. I finally got interested in the company and … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on August 29, 2015. Click here to read the entire piece.) The iShares Transportation Average (IYT) began to diverge notably from the S&P 500 (SPY) in March of this year. It took another five months for this divergence to resolve into a … Read more
Several months ago, I had the opportunity to “talk shop” with a truck driver who specializes household moves. I will call him “Bob.” When Bob discovered that I write a blog dealing with trading and investing in financial markets, he asked me for my forecast for the economy. I did not have anything good to … Read more