SRTY News and Press, ProShares UltraPro Short Russell2000 From 09/02/21

After a slow start to the year, the spring and summer months brought our clients hot weather and even hotter returns. According to consensus estimates, earnings for the companies that comprise the S&P 500 are expected to grow by 45% in 2021. The fundamentals of the North Ameri...

Looking at the growing trend of reassessing and moving towards a more updated, post-modern portfolio theory (MPT) risk management and portfolio construction process. Interview explores an investment philosophy and process which is described as a modernized approach to tactical investi...

Given the sizeable skew in the distribution of outcomes toward negative real returns, it's extremely important to be selective in high-quality fixed income, and to be truly vested in one’s investments so that portfolios are not permanently impaired. In the short term, the commo...

The expected risk premium for the Global Market (GMI) ticked up in August, reaching an annualized 6.1%, slightly above the previous month’s estimate. Despite the comparatively high GMI forecast, the current estimate remains well below the index’s realized risk premium fo...

It's been about a year since the S&P 500 saw a notable correction of approximately 10%. At the same time, the Fed taper and the growing coronavirus threat will likely put a dent into economic growth and corporate earnings. Stock valuations are high right now, and ultra-bullish...

I've long been insisting that extended and expanded unemployment benefits have been pushing up the unemployment rate. Stands to reason after all. Some evidence - states ending them at different times - says that I was wrong on this. It remains to be seen whether that evidence stands u...

The economy overall is booming in a way that has the labor market healing far faster than thought not long ago. Yet, American workers already sidelined by two huge recessions (we still hadn’t recovered from the prior one) just are not streaming back into the workforce. The ...

The ISM’s Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index rose to 59.9 in August, up 0.4 points from 59.5 percent in July and equal to the average over the last 12 months. Among the key components of the survey, the New Orders Index increased to 66.7 percent from 64.9 percent i...

The winning streak for American shares rolled on in August. US stocks rose for a seventh straight month and posted the strongest gain for the major asset classes. US bonds also lost ground in August. The Bloomberg Aggregate Bond Index slipped 0.2%, the first monthly decline for the be...

After several strong quarters for value stocks, the last few months have seen a sharp reversal in favor of growth. The probability of any particular value stock being a “value trap” in a given year is about 30%. Value stocks are currently trading at a 40% discount to...