I had the amazing privilege to talk to Wall Street legend Peter Borish on Wednesday. Peter is a co-founding partner and was second-in-command at Paul Tudor Jones’s investment company. Paul Tudor Jones is known in the investment community as one…
Semiconductors are arguably the most important group of stocks in the market. They’re so important that we like to include them as part of the conversation about Dow Theory confirmations. Going back to the late 1800s, Charlie Dow was a…
Is “ARK-y” an adjective or an adverb? “ARK-y” describes the type of high-growth tech stocks ARK Invest founder Cathie Wood buys in her ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK). Here’s the list of stocks held in the ARKK ETF: These are the…
We’re Americans. We love Memorial Day weekend. We’re Earthlings, too. And we’re here to profit The fact is the rest of the world doesn’t care about Memorial Day. And global markets were rallying while we were eating hot dogs. Everything…
Two charts have my attention this week. I’m watching the Roundhill Magnificent 7 ETF (MAGS): Shout-out to our friends over at Roundhill. Those are nice guys over there. These are the stocks in the Magnificent Seven I’m looking for this…
So, Treasury Man walks over to the White House for a quick chat with the boss… “Tariff Man, we need to do something about these high rates…” Tariff Man says, “Watch this…” And, with one tweet, Tariff Man destroys rates…
Are you familiar with “The Becky Index”? It’s a great thought experiment It’s not a real exchange-traded fund (ETF). But there’s a lot of data behind it. And it seems like a solid strategy, buying the stocks of companies where…
“This ETF needed to exist in the world. So I built it.” That’s Perth Tolle, the founder of Life + Liberty Indexes. You know something is good when the builder feels so intensely the need for it to exist that…
I’m almost done reading Palantir (PLTR) CEO Alex Karp’s new book, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. It’s a good read. And Alex Karp is just about the biggest badass in financial markets…
Humans are crazy. If we’re not trying to profit from their irrational behavior – particularly in public markets – then what are we even doing here? When our stress levels are elevated, our emotions get triggered. And we behave irrationally. …
This is still the One Chart to Rule Them All right now: The 100 level for the U.S. Dollar Index (DXY) still has my attention. The “smart money” hated the U.S. Dollar coming into the year. And it got absolutely…
A technical analyst and a fundamental analyst are chatting about the markets in the kitchen. Accidentally, one of them knocks a kitchen knife off the table, and it lands right in the fundamental analyst’s foot! The fundamental analyst yells at…
