The Best Of See It Market – September
The month of September was a tail of two halves. The first half was spent rallying into the highly anticipated September FOMC and Fed...
Bonds 101: Understanding the Price-Yield-Value Relationship
The incessant noise around whether to taper or not to taper got me thinking that it may be a good idea to cover off...
What the Current Small Cap Stock Outperformance Means
Recent relative strength in small cap benchmark index Russell 2000 (RUT) has been the subject of much discussion. What does the current small cap...
October Stock Market Performance: In Charts
As we enter October and the final quarter of the year, I thought it would be fun to highlight October stock market performance through some memorable market snapshots....
Why Bond Yields May Continue to Fall
Back in July I wrote a piece on “Why Bond Yields may be Headed Lower Short-Term” and it has played out just as I...
Options Strategy: Looking For An Explosive Move Higher?
If you are enormously bullish on a stock, perhaps it’s a takeover candidate, but still want a hedged all options position, then the following...
Bank Stocks: Facing Off Against Multi-Year Resistance
Bank stocks have seen better days.
Large US money center banks (e.g. Bank of America) and bank holding companies (e.g. Goldman Sachs) with few exceptions...
Market Masters: Getting Past Investment ‘Regret’ and Counterfactual Thinking
By Darren Miller Regret is an ugly word. Regret leads to remorse which manifests itself as we sit and stew about the action (or...
S&P 500, Treasuries: Market Analogs of Summer 2011
May be it's just because of the threat of an imminent government shutdown, an equally acrimonious debt ceiling debate still ahead and vaguely menacing...
Basket Trading For Individual Investors
In this age of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), the idea of basket trading seems to be a foreign concept. After all, ETFs afford the...
