JC Parets

Every day, I wake up and decide how to best use my time. Should I be looking for stocks to buy? Should I be spending more time finding stocks to sell? Or should I be allocating capital to entirely different…

Humans have always been masters of adaptation. It’s the reason we’re still here — our ancestors learned to evolve, adjust, and survive while the other Homos couldn’t. Sure, some people still act like Neanderthals, but it was our species’ ability…

When we think about the stock market, it helps to stop thinking like Americans — and start thinking like Earthlings. It’s not the American stock market. It’s the stock market. Yes, the U.S. is the biggest and most important piece…

Look around. Have you noticed how upset people get when the market hits new highs? You’d think investors would be thrilled — the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq 100, and Russell 2000 all just closed the month at…

I don’t know how many times I need to say it — this market isn’t being driven by a handful of mega-cap Tech stocks (the big Technology names everyone talks about). It never was. And it still isn’t. In fact,…

There’s been a lot of chatter lately about market breadth — and, as usual, most of it is wrong. Let’s start with the basics: this is a market of stocks. There are about 500 in the S&P 500, 30 in…

Sector rotation is the lifeblood of a bull market. In healthy market environments, certain groups of stocks and sectors consistently lead the way — and it’s usually the risk-on areas like Technology and High Beta that sit at the top…

Every day, my job is to identify where the market is offsides — where investors are most vulnerable and positioned to get squeezed. We want to find where everyone is wrong… so we can take the other side. That’s what…

When we talk about a lot of the common characteristics we find in bull markets, investors who are new to my work tend to refer to me as a permabull. It’s funny, because during bear markets, those same kinds of…

What’s one of the biggest risks investors face — but rarely ever talk about? Opportunity cost. It’s one of the most overlooked risks in all of investing, quietly draining returns and fueling regret for investors everywhere. If you’re new around…

“In terms of stocks, there are 6,000 girls out there. If 20 or 30 of them look great, I don’t need to bother with the rest.” That’s a classic line from Stanley Druckenmiller, one of the greatest portfolio managers of…

We are officially heading into what has historically been the best three-month stretch of the year for stocks, November through January. This is the sweet spot for equities, the part of the calendar where the past tells us it’s paid…