3 Reasons I’m Wary of AMZN Right Now
Hey Traders, We’ve all heard of so-called “FAANG” stocks — a term that became popular in the past few years to reference five industry titans: Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google (Alphabet). As if having a name for your posse isn’t enough to cement your status, consider just how much profits at most of those […]
The $500K Bet on a Space Stock Floor
Hey Traders, Wall Street is chock-full of eccentric visionaries, including two who are battling in the race for space tourism: Richard Branson and Elon Musk. Branson heads up Virgin Galactic (Ticker: SPCE) and Musk is the notoriously blunt-smoking head of Tesla (Ticker: TSLA) and SpaceX. After dropping nearly 18% in March, SPCE stock went on […]
This Sector Heats Up in May
Hey Traders, If you’ve been in the stock game for a while, you’ve likely heard the famous expression, “Sell in May and go away.” In my experience (which is 20 years’ worth this summer, if you can believe that!), this saying is overdone, lacks nuance, and frankly, it’s just bad advice! Sure, at one point […]
J-Pow is the Fed-boy who cried wolf…
Hey There Income Hunters, It’s awesome to turn the page on April showers and enter into the transitory period of May flowers. However, before we get to the there, we have a bit of a storm to deal with next week as investors must absorb an all time record in the quarterly 3-year, 10-year and […]
Did Ford Screw Us?
Yo Pit Crazies, You don’t think Ford Motor Corp. (Ticker F) screwed us? I think they did! Their earnings report pushed a big warning on chip supply … and they can’t make cars without chips. I don’t mean potato chips (a shortage there is my fault) … I mean semiconductor […]
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Stay in May and Give It a Weigh
Hey Traders, Once again, I hope you had a profitable week and didn’t get sucked into paying up for a busted earnings trade. Now, I don’t know about you, but I can’t believe it’s already May! I’ll be coming to you soon with some of my favorite stocks and sectors for this month, but in […]
Something Weird Is Going On
Yo Pit Crazies I am not quite sure what happened today. Most of the news was good. But… The VIX was up and S&P 500 (Ticker: SPX) was up. Facebook Inc (Ticker: FB) was up huge. Oil and banks? Also up. You know what I think is going on? […]
Fat Cats Expect This Airline Stock to Fly Higher
Hey Traders, I hope your trading week is going well so far, and that if you’re playing earnings roulette, you’re not paying those hefty premium taxes … As many of you already know, part of my Robinhood Trader strategy is spying on the institutional money — the market-maker cash that can move stocks […]
A Quickie on the VXX Split
Hey Traders, As most of you know, I’m a volatility geek. I was in the room when the Cboe Volatility Index (Ticker: VIX) was but a concept, so I like to think of myself as a “helicopter parent” of sorts, keeping close tabs on — and often making money on — Wall Street’s […]