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The unprecedented demand for U.S. Treasuries at last week’s auction - even as the 10-year yield approached its 50-day moving average - speaks volumes. Yields did slip notably last Friday back below 1.3% (the day after the auction), closing below their 200-day moving average. Th...
2 things that always happen at or prior to the start of a boom-to-bust transition for the US economy. One is a clear-cut widening of credit spreads. The other is pronounced weakness in the Industrial Metals Index (GYX) relative to the gold price. There are many different credit-spread...
SCO is an ideal way to short oil as it trades 2x inverse with WTI futures. Global growth is downshifting while OPEC+ is ramping production. Call options on Bank of America provide a hedge if oil does not decline, as this scenario would involve higher US yields - supportive of net inte...
I promised readers of my book, "The Income Factory: An Investor's Guide to Consistent Lifetime Returns," that I would periodically review and update the model portfolios here on Seeking Alpha. Obviously a lot has happened (COVID, the energy crash and recovery, etc.) since the McGraw-H...
We've been monitoring ZTR over the last year or so since the fund dropped to a deep discount. Now the fund is back in the premium territory after hitting a nearly 15% discount in October 2020. The fund's yield remains near 10% and I believe that is driving investors to pick up thi...
Shares of Blackrock Corporate High Yield Fund Inc. (NYSE:HYT) traded today at $12.68, eclipsing its 52-week high. This new high was reached on below average trading volume as 145,000 shares traded hands, while the average 30-day volume is approximately 331,000 shares. BlackRock Corporate...
GMI’s 10-year Sharpe ratio (SR) edged up for a fifth straight month to 0.86, the highest since January 2020, based on a rolling ten-year window via monthly data. Profiling GMI through a drawdown lens also reflects an extended stretch of low risk. GMI is useful as a baseline...
The projected risk premium for the Global Market held steady in July at an annualized 6.0%, unchanged from the previous month. Despite the recent bounce, GMI’s trailing 10-year performance remains well below the previous 8%-plus peak. No one really knows what risk premia wi...
Most of the major asset classes continued to rise in July, led by US real estate investment trusts (REITs). US equities continued trending higher. The bull run also persisted for the Global Market Index (GMI) in July. For further details see: Major Asset Classes: July 20...
The US high-yield index is almost $1.6 trillion, but it pales in comparison to a broader global multi-sector universe that tops $8 trillion. Ever-changing global economic and market conditions mean every category has the chance of being the best or worst performing in any given year. ...
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2024-07-12 05:26:00 ET Stock Traders Daily has produced this trading report using a proprietary method. This methodology seeks to optimize the entry and exit levels to maximize results and limit risk, and it is also applied to Index options, ETFs, and futures for our subscribers. This...
2024-07-02 06:52:00 ET Stock Traders Daily has produced this trading report using a proprietary method. This methodology seeks to optimize the entry and exit levels to maximize results and limit risk, and it is also applied to Index options, ETFs, and futures for our subscribers. This...
2024-05-01 23:50:00 ET Stock Traders Daily has produced this trading report using a proprietary method. This methodology seeks to optimize the entry and exit levels to maximize results and limit risk, and it is also applied to Index options, ETFs, and futures for our subscribers. This...