This morning, rather than focusing on the handful of stocks driving most of the performance in the U.S. equity market and have no top in sight, Amazon, Facebook, Google & Netflix, I will instead focus …
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Since the start of QE and ZIRP, Don’t fight the Fed has been one of the most profitable consensus US equity trades of the last fifty years. In the last year, the Fed has ended …
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While we’ve spent all this time debating when the U.S. Federal Reserve will raise the Fed Funds rate for the first time since 2006, there has been little discussion on wether the ECB will continue on its …
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On this past Friday’s Options Action on CNBC, our friend Mike Khouw, President, and Chief Strategist of Optimize Advisors and Dan had a quick discussion on the launch of options trading on shares of Shake Shack (SHAK) that …
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Last week we featured a dollar cheap way to express a defined risk bearish view into JPM’s Q4 earnings. We did not execute the trade ourselves as it started moving lower before we could get our ideal entry and …
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On Wednesday (below) I highlighted what appears to be a brewing technical meltdown in the Euro currency and the Euro Stoxx Bank Index (SX7E) as both traded at 52 week lows today, with the SX7E closing …
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The investment world seems obsessively focused on the rise and fall of crude oil and the knock-on effects on other risk assets. This morning, oil is green, equities are green and bond yields are green. …
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2015 Outlook -Tough Choices Ahead: From Itau’s Global Connections Dec 2, 2014 While the year-end equity rally continues apace, it is time to look ahead into next year and assess the challenges and opportunities 2015 will bring. …
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Tempest in a Tea Pot – What Does It Tell Us? From Itau’s Global Connections Oct 31, 2014: The recent financial market correction came and went in what seems like the blink of the eye. Several …
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The EUR/USD essentially matched its 52 week low from early September 2013 this morning: The gradual creep lower since the 1.3993 high in May has been notable because of how low volatility has remained even as …
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