SRTY News and Press, ProShares UltraPro Short Russell2000 From 08/17/21

Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) is “deeply concerned” about the Fed’s easy money policy and urged the Fed to curtail its aggressive intervention in the bond market. This raises questions about whether or not the Fed might taper sooner than expected. I believe the Fed w...

Numerous multi-decade extremes support a bearish conclusion for U.S. equities. The media has featured numerous articles about how there has been a rotation among equity sectors. The assumption which underlies almost all of these analyses is that we are in a bull market and that the se...

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Russell index has traded in fits and starts that seem to be highly connected to the prevailing opinion on the pandemic’s direction. February 21, 2020 marked the first day that equities began to price in the coming economic storm. In the ...

Traders quietly fret about what may come out of the Fed’s Jackson Hole, Wyoming summit scheduled for August 26-28. The mainstream view that we are in a housing bubble may be misguided and perhaps completely wrong. Options players continue to play a cautiously bullish game. ...

Since bonds are loans to borrowers, a bond’s interest rate is tied to the prevailing rate environment at the time of issuance. Historically speaking, from the time yield curves begin to invert, the span to the next recession runs roughly 9-months. However, note that yield curve...

We believe ignoring the effects of climate change on portfolios is not an option, and the window for investors to position portfolios may be shrinking. The U.S. Senate passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that now awaits a House vote. Congress will take up the $3.5 trillion spen...

My theory is that the Crypto market is acting like an escape valve for stocks. Most selloffs happen when a stock or stocks are overbought. The rampant trading in Crypto attracts both professional traders and the retail crowd preventing "Irrational Exuberance". When getting out...

The volatility of the dollar does present some problems for the world but, for better or worse, it is the world’s reserve currency and I see no real threat to that status on the horizon. I positioned our portfolios for a weak dollar period early last summer and maintained those...

This week, the market did register new highs, but only by a small fraction. What is important to note is that these incremental gains are burning through buying power, which leaves the markets increasingly vulnerable to a correction, given the proper catalyst. However, for now, with v...

With about 90 percent of all S&P 500 companies having reported, the blended growth rate - comprising the actual reported numbers along with analysts’ estimates for the remaining 10 percent - is a stonking 91 percent. A big part of that figure comes from the basis of compari...