While investors were left reeling from what is considered an absolutely terrible week for stocks, it provided unbelievable opportunities to those who are good at trading indexes. This week was as tough as they come for investors, with the first four days producing massive losses and the fifth being in massive loss territory until the […]

With the stock market falling in leaps and bounds every day this week, many investors are looking for a better place to park their money. There are several ways to do this. So many of us invest without a plan, and may not even think that one is needed, or even useful. They just keep […]

Whenever we see a meaningful drop in stock prices, people start lining up for a rate cut. The recent cuts may have made at least some sense, but one now just does not. When the news that China had locked down over 50 million people a little over a month ago, as part of a […]

Economist David Rosenberg has been seeing weakness in the economy and has been bearish on stocks for several years now. Being wrong over and over doesn’t bother him. David Rosenberg considers himself a contrarian, which in itself isn’t necessary a bad thing and can often be a good thing, depending on what side of right […]

Stock markets came down with the coronavirus last month and quickly recovered once the fever broke. New fears have hit the market, and we’re left wondering once again. There has only been one day in history that the Dow lost more than 1000 points, back on February 6, 2018. That day was one for the […]

Once the darling of the market, producing consistent gains twice that of stocks for 30 years, managed futures funds have fallen upon hard times. They still might have their place. Managed futures funds seem like such a great idea on paper. The potential return with futures trading dwarfs what anyone could make with stocks, and […]

There are quite a few people out there who are intimidated and disenchanted with all the computer trading that goes on these days, but these fears are not justified at all. There is a myth out there that still prevails that has us human traders and investors pitted against an army of computers, all of […]

The coronavirus scare and gold are made for each other. The soft commodities have taken a hit, but several commodities advisors see this as a good opportunity. It didn’t really take much know-how for us to recommend going long gold when the coronavirus that still grips the financial world broke out not so long ago. […]

Former Treasury secretary Jacob Lew has a bone to pick with the Trump administration, believing that they are overusing, abusing and undermining U.S. economic power. In the world of politics, it’s all too easy to be a critic, as just being disgruntled is more than enough, whether or not your criticisms have any actual merit. […]

It’s not easy to find an actively managed fund that does what it is supposed to, which is to provide above average and not below average returns. MFS is doing its best. It is actually pretty amazing how so many poor performing mutual funds there are out there, and how people continue to invest in […]