There’s been a lot of chatter lately about traditional brokerage firms opening the door to sports-betting markets for their clients. Let me be crystal clear: That does NOT mean betting on sports is the same thing as investing. These firms…
I live in the United States of America — a place where short selling isn’t just allowed, it’s celebrated. Other countries do things differently, and that’s fine. But here, the ability to profit from falling stock prices is one of…
Baseball isn’t for everyone. It demands skill, patience, preparation, and the ability to think through uncertain outcomes. And unless you’ve lived it, I understand why some people don’t quite get it. I grew up in Miami in a community of…
It’s time to go shopping. Got your list ready? And no, I don’t mean holiday gifts — I’m talking stocks. We’re entering one of the most seasonally bullish stretches of the entire year, at the same time the market is…
You know how I can tell this time is different? Because it’s always different. Every cycle has its own fingerprints, its own quirks, its own psychology. And today we’re talking specifically about why this one isn’t like the dot-com bubble.…
One of the things we all learn the hard way — in life and in markets — is to stop doing what isn’t working and double down on what is. Feel like garbage the next morning because you drank too…
The S&P 500 just delivered back-to-back years of 20%-plus returns — and it’s on pace to make it three in a row in 2025. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq-100 has more than doubled during this stretch. So using even the most basic…
The U.S. stock market makes up less than half of the $127 trillion global equity market. Which means the majority — more than $60 trillion in value — comes from companies headquartered outside the United States. Fifty years ago, maybe…
I understand fundamentals just fine. I just don’t use them. I’ve been doing this every single day since I was 21. I’ll be 44 in a couple of months. If I genuinely believed digging through corporate balance sheets was the…
A funny thing happened this week: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at its highest level in nearly 130 years. And it’s not just the U.S. putting up records. Europe and Japan are hitting new all-time highs. Latin America and…
Silver just clocked another all-time high this morning. And if you’re anything like me, you’re probably asking the same question: Is this breakout for real, or is it just another fake-out? To answer that, we need to shift our perspective…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average just closed at its highest level in history. Think about that for a second. This is an index that dates back to May 26, 1896. And of all the trading days since then, yesterday was…
