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Anyone who is a crypto enthusiast – any winning investor in the space (and there are fewer of them every day), all the losers in the crypto game, and anybody who knows anything about cryptocurrencies – knows the come-on under the hype is that blockchain, the heart of all cryptos, is the real deal and […]

Inflation just won’t come down, at least nowhere near the Federal Reserve’s 2% target rate – even after the Fed Funds Effective Rate has jumped from 0.08% in February 2022 to 4.57% in February 2023. That means a lot of investors are turning their attention back toward income investing as a way of making sure […]

Markets have been a mixed bag this week, in the usual “push me, pull you” action we’re familiar with by now. It’s a battle of the same warring narratives – how high will the Fed push rates, how long will they keep them there, will they overdo it and push us into a recession, ad […]

According to the American Prospect, a progressive policy journal, U.S. companies in the S&P 500 spent $5.3 trillion on buybacks between 2010 and 2020. Some analysts believe corporate buying power was responsible for 40% of the rise in stocks over that period, a huge contributing factor to the Great Bull Market of 2010 – 2020. […]

It’s the start of a new trading week, and that means it’s time to look for a new opportunity to Flip the Chart. Instead of targeting an individual stock, we’re going to target the entire stock market, in response to some trends I see developing. When I look at the S&P 500 based on last […]

The wind in the sails of the “everything rally” is starting to die down as the reality of the Federal Reserve’s “higher interest rates for longer” stance continues to settle in. We could be looking at a fairly significant downturn here, and that means it’s time to rethink what we’re doing with our capital right […]

Some of you old Steve Miller fans may remember his seminal 1973 album The Joker and one of its brilliant tracks, “Your Cash Ain’t Nothin’ But Trash.” (For the rest of you who don’t know the song, check it out; you’re going to love it.) Like, I love cash now. Because now your cash is […]

In last week’s Flip the Chart column, I recommended buying-to-open a MPWR March 17, 2023 $490/$480 Put Spread – and I’m sure glad I did. As I write this, the stock looks like its rolling over, and we could hit our profit target in the next few days. This week’s profit opportunity comes from an […]

The tailwinds behind the “everything rally” have faded a bit in the wake of a CPI and PPI report that showed inflation continuing to be stubborn. Between that and the ongoing growth we’re seeing in the economy, the Fed’s position on interest rates has remained hawkish, and it seems clear that we’re looking at higher […]

Most people, including Wall Street investors, don’t realize that we don’t have free markets. We operate under a command economy, not unlike manifestly socialist or Communist countries, or dare I say, banana republics. Who is at the helm of the command center? The Federal Reserve System, America’s private central bank. That’s right, the Fed’s a […]