While computer and electronic trading has increasingly dominated trading volume, human beings still play an important role for creating efficient and fair markets.
After the initial post election jet propulsion pushing stocks to all time highs, we seem to have settled into a wait and see trading range until we get more clarity on Trump’s policy push.
The postelection rotation into cyclical and financial stocks has been nothing short of stunning. Shares of companies such U.S Steel (X) and Goldman Sachs (GS) have gained some 55% and 35% in the past two months. Meanwhile former market leaders in the technology sector, from Facebook (FB) to Amazon (AMZN) and Netflix (NFLX) have gone […]
In the spirit of this being the first day of Festivus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus I’d thought it would be fun to share “Costanza Trades for 2017 ” which come courtesy of Zerohedge. For those unfamiliar, George Constanza was the lovable loser on Seinfeld who so distrusted his own instincts and lack of lack that he decided since […]
Gold prices have been sliding for the past few months but the selling pressure accelerated this week following Wednesday’s FOMC meeting when Yellen & Co. indicated they plan on hiking rates three times during 2017.
Before I focused on options I actually began my trading career some 25 years ago in the trading pits of the Chicago Board of Trade, trading contracts on corn, soybean and wheat futures. While these are very tangible products most of us encounter in our everyday life, the concept of “futures contracts” can be a bit more elusive.
Another quarter, another disappointing delivery announcement from Tesla, which moments ago reported that for the fourth quarter and full year, had delivered 22,200 and 76,230 vehicles, well short of Wall Street estimates of 25,000 for the quarter and shy of the full year goal of 80,000. To mitigate the disappointment, Tesla explained that its “Q4 […]
The post-election rally has clearly increased bullishness almost uniformly across the investor class, from hedge funders, to wealth management firms to main street retail investors. The initial enthusiasm is built on hope for pro-growth policies. Even though we are in the later stages of a traditional recovery cycle people are greeting this as the dawn […]