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Summary In 2022, I was very close again on my annual forecast, here's what I see for 2023. The S&P 500 and SPY will round trip from the bottom up. The NASDAQ 100 and QQQ will eek out a small gain. Small caps will significantly outperform in H2 for a double-digit gain. Em...
Summary Risks remain elevated for risk assets as the Fed continues to tighten policy. I review the mathematics of investment returns, and why you cannot beat compounding money. I also present my 2023 forecast for stock and bond returns, and why I favor bonds for 2023 and beyond. ...
Summary Over the last few days, options traders have purchased more options expecting stock prices to decline than options expecting them to advance. This has not happened in over 20 years, a period that includes the great financial crisis of 2007-08. That this bearish activity is h...
Summary The value of the U.S. dollar has backed off this fall as other nations around the world make interest rate moves to catch up with what the Fed has done. However, I believe that the Federal Reserve wants a strong dollar in the future and this is one of the reasons why they are wo...
Summary Everyone should have some passive equity exposure. The crux issue is in minimizing taxes and other expenses. Here's one way to efficiently compound significant capital. S&P 500 ((SPY)) I want exposure that 1) correlates closely with the S&P 500 ( ...
Summary Following the cryptocurrency market, the SPAC market is now suffering many major financial setbacks. The Federal Reserve created quite a bubble as it fought to keep the U.S. economy solvent as the Covid-19 pandemic spread through the country. Now, the Fed finds itself on the...
Summary Dismissing asset allocation as ineffective has become popular in some circles in recent years, but the charge is demonstrably false. Decision to allocate into commodities, or not, probably explains a lot about the performance of multi-asset class portfolios this year. US REI...
Summary Money and finance are nothing but information, and the growth and spread of information use are accelerating almost everywhere. Bankers and bank regulators have historically been slow to incorporate change into the banking system, but it looks as if 2023 may be a tipping point t...
Summary Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF essentially buys the U.S. stock market. Nearly all of it. It owns approximately the 2,500 largest U.S. publicly-traded companies. With an expense ratio of only 0.03%, SCHB represents a way to track the stock market's performance at virtually no E...
Summary The Federal Reserve continues to reduce the size of its securities portfolio and continues to reduce the amount of "excess reserves" in the banking system. These are connected with the rise in the Fed's policy rate of interest, but the longer-run focus needs to be on how low the...
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2024-06-03 23:06:00 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...