What the Fed Didn’t Say It Said

In case you missed it, last week the Fed fired a warning shot across the bow of investors who’ve won the bet, so far, the stock market would enjoy a V-shaped recovery and the economy would follow suit.

No, the Fed didn’t upset the applecart on Wednesday. The market tested itself on Wednesday when fear of rapidly rising virus spikes in Arizona, Texas and Florida triggered profit-taking.

The Fed didn’t upset the market on Thursday either. It actually helped stocks rally on the heels of Wednesday’s selloff when it announced all its children, the banks it shepherds, all passed their stress tests.

Banks rallied nicely on Thursday as investors cheered the good news.

But it was fake news.

Finding Safe Stocks with Big Dividend Yields

If you’ve been searching for yield in the bond market you know there’s not much out there to be had.

Good thing there’s another market where you can find good yielding investments. I’m talking about the stock market.

Hundreds of listed companies pay dividends to their stockholders.

It’s not hard to find lots of big dividend paying stocks in the market, including some really fat yields that look too good to be true.

That’s because some of them are, too good to be true, that is, which means probably too good to last.

Here’s how to tell if a dividend yield is realistic and repeatable.

Making Money Off March 23 Lows: What it Looks Like A Few Months Later

If you didn’t buy in March, hopefully you bought the run up. APPL and GLD had a hell of a run – here’s what we’re looking at next.

What Could Kill the Stock Market Rally and What to Do About It

Like I always say, “It’s all good; until it isn’t.” And right now, it’s all good for the stock market.

But the “wall of worry” the market’s climbed might be starting to crumble on top of it.

That means the rally, every point, percentage, and dollar tacked on since March 23, 2020 could be in danger. The markets could start to slip, and once they start, there’s no telling how low they’ll go.

You need to make sure you’re prepared. There are simple precautions you can take to help protect your wealth and your family – but you need to act quickly. Every day, we’re trading on borrowed time and a market that’s becoming thinner and thinner, essentially balancing trillions of dollars on the tip of a pin, and one wrong move could cause it all to evaporate into thin air.

Those who protect themselves, and do it the right way, can protect their family’s financial future for generations to come.

Those who do not risk losing everything.

My team has created a straight-forward guide on how to protect your financial future, and you can check it out here.

The “wall of worry” has been built higher and higher as people forget the feelings of the March lows.

Here’s what that wall is built on, why it might be starting to crumble, and what to do with your money.

Tech Stocks: Is It Time to Sell for Profits?

We’ve seen major run ups and made record highs in the Big Tech sector, so is it time to sell?

Bluntly: NO. There’s so much higher to go, and more profits to take, so here’s what to do next.

The Stock Market’s New Balancing Act Front and Center

The stock market is now up on a high wire, balancing where it’s come from against new winds buffeting it from underneath and above.

Here’s what’s front and center and what could push the market either way.

While two weeks ago was scary, especially watching stocks slide on Thursday June 11, 2020, and the majors ending the week down 5.5% for the Dow, down 4.78% for the S&P, and down 2.3% for the Nasdaq Composite, last week offered renewed hope.

Showing signs of recovery last week, the Dow ended up 1%, the S&P 500 was up 1.9%, and the Nasdaq Composite jumped 3.7%.

The week could have been a lot better, but Friday was a mess. The Dow, for example, after opening higher and climbing 357 points, sold off ending the day down 208 points.

Investors on Friday got nervous about news of more coronavirus hot spots cropping up in Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Oklahoma.

Sideways Markets are Fine…

As long as the bias isn’t down. The markets are taking a breather and the trend is clearly up. The volume is up, the trend is up, and investors are looking at retail, to bid up the markets higher. Here’s what to do.

Buy These Three Fat Dividend Yielding Stocks

Everyone knows the Fed’s manipulated interest rates down so low for so long there are no decent yielding investments in the fixed income market unless you’re willing to pay up for junk bonds.

But that doesn’t mean there aren’t great yielding investments readily available in other markets.

I’m talking about the stock market. Lots of companies pay dividends to their stockholders.

Some of them pay fat dividends, earn plenty of money regularly to keep paying them, and offer a kicker called appreciation.

Here are three fat dividend yielding stocks you can tuck away in your retirement account, so you actually can retire.

The New Day Traders and Another Market Crash: Is This Déjà vu All Over Again?

As Yogi Berra famously said, “It’s like déjà vu all over again.”

I’m talking about the parallels between the day trading craze in the 1990s that helped fuel the 2000 “tech wreck,” and today’s retail investors driving stocks higher in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

The question now is, what will happen to the market if stocks, pumped up by retail speculators, falter like they did in the dot.com bust?

Here’s what happened with retail investors in the 1990s, what they’re doing now, and what could happen to the stock market.

Reality Bites, and Its Teeth Could Drag the Market Lower

Just when the markets looked so promising to so many people, reality bites.

Yes, I’m talking about the frightening second wave of coronavirus infection spikes hitting U.S. states that recently “reopened”, hitting several countries especially hard, and as of this weekend, hitting Beijing, China, causing lockdowns in the country’s capitol.

That’s freaking out investors.

But, that’s not what’s got the potential to crash the market…

Is the Rally Over or Is Recent Selling Just Healthy Profit-Taking?

The stock market’s bounce off its March 23, 2020 lows turned into a rally, then into a bull market.

At least that’s what everyone saw happening until yesterday, when the Nasdaq Composite fell 5.27%, the S&P 500 fell 5.89%, The Dow Jones Industrials fell 6.9%, and the Russell 2000 fell a whopping 7.63%.

Is the rally over? Is the selling just some profit-taking? Or were we all head-faked into believing the worst is over as far as the stock market, the worst is over as far as the economy, and the worst is over as far as the pandemic?

The truth is out there.

But nothing is set in stone. If the pandemic comes back, the riots continue, or the President keeps tweeting, anything could happen.

The best way to protect yourself is to take concrete steps towards financial safety and economic security.

Thousands of Americans may think they’re set in the event of a crisis, not unlike the one we’re seeing now, but that frankly isn’t true. The truth is that a second downturn could absolutely ruin your financial future.

Unless you take the necessary precautions to prepare.

It’s nothing timely or complex – in fact, protecting your wealth can be one of the easiest things you do, if you follow these simple steps .

We’ve seen over $6 trillion evaporate in 2020 alone. Don’t lose any more cash and don’t let the effects of the coronavirus, or the seesawing market, take any more money out of your pocket (or your retirement fund, or your children’s college educations…)

Click here for more details on how to prepare for the worst.

You can protect yourself if you know what you’re up against, why our markets are hurting, and how you can make money against all odds.

Here’s how the market got to where it is, what just happened, what could happen, and how to play the market no matter what happens…

Tech Names Rally in Pre-Market

Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft all rallied in pre-market trading, some even closing in on new highs. There’s no reason we can’t go higher… a lot higher. Shah weighs in. Click here to watch

The Busted Myth of Retiring on Fixed Income: Choose Stocks Instead

If you’re thinking when you retire you can live off some kind of fixed income portfolio, forget about it.

That’s a myth now.

Sure, there was a time when you could, but that’s gone the way of the dodo bird and free markets.

With the Federal Reserve manipulating interest rates “lower for longer” for decades and lately driving them down to near zero, or maybe busting another myth and turning them negative some time in our future, there’s no way anyone can retire comfortably, or retire at all, on a fixed income portfolio.

Not only isn’t there enough yield to be had, unless you load up of the riskiest bonds out there and good luck with that, you’re at increasing risk of losing money on your fixed income dreams in more ways than you know.

Here’s why and how traditional fixed income investing for your retirement is a bad idea and what to do instead.

Irrational Exuberance or Nothing Matters and What If It Did

To say the market’s been on a tear would be like calling the Grand Canyon a ditch.

Last week the Dow ran up 1,727.87 points to end the week 6.8% higher. That’s half the gain in a good year. The S&P rose 4.9%. And the Nasdaq Composite, on an intraday basis, made a new record high, climbing 3.4% on the week.

All week the “honey badger” (Google: honey badger don’t give a damn) proved it don’t give a damn about China, or protests, or politics, or anything. It just keeps on going, doing what it does, keeps going.

And then on Friday, when the world was expecting the U.S. to lose 8 million jobs in May, the unemployment rate was expected to hit 20%, and the market to keep going anyway, only one out of those three things happened.

The U.S. didn’t lose jobs, it gained 2.5 million jobs. And the UE rate didn’t tick up to 20% from the previous months 14.7%, it fell to 13.3%. Of course, the honey badger did what it does.

Is it “irrational exuberance” or are investors taking a nothing matters and what if it did attitude?

It’s both actually.

The Bears Aren’t Dead…Just in Hibernation

People are buying shorts, the bears are plotting, and we’re looking for the next leg down… even though the markets are headed up. There will be falling stocks, but it’s not the ones you may expect to fail. Click here to watch