Where We Go From Here

by Demandredz Wow, what a crazy week. The S&P 500 ended up down about 20%, developed markets in dollar terms are down about 24% according to the price action in IEFA, and we’re down about 18% in emerging markets (IEMG). …

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Goldman Sachs warns US markets will face further sharp falls… Cramer: Worried that multiple companies in the S&P 500 could go bankrupt within four weeks.

https://www.ft.com/content/d41b7aba-63a4-11ea-b3f3-fe4680ea68b5 Goldman Sachs has called time on Wall Street’s 11-year bull run, warning that the coronavirus outbreak and oil crash will send the market tumbling by almost 30 per cent from the record highs set last month. The Wall Street …

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Saudi Russian Oil Price War DD

by Malokium Russia has been trying to destroy US shale ever since they have been passively sitting aside eating up marketshare in the oil industry. They are using this price war to do that. Russia has been increasing production, and …

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VIX Futures for Autists

by IsNullOrEmptyTrue I’ve noticed a few of us autists likes myself have had questions regarding VIX and a couple of it’s related derivative funds, VXX, XIV. I would like to share some information to help clarify things and potentially be clarified …

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Reasons to buy? Take the following with a grain of salt as I’m a bond guy, but I felt compelled to build a stock chart on how the GFC went down to highlight many failed bailout attempts (and reasons to buy along the way) yet until nearly everyone gave up, a bottom wouldn’t form.

Reasons to buy? Take the following with a grain of salt as I'm a bond guy, but I felt compelled to build a stock chart on how the GFC went down to highlight many failed bailout attempts (and reasons to …

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What honestly changed from yesterday to today? Battling Coronavirus with fiscal stimulus is effective as putting a bandaid on flesh eating bacteria. Today is nothing more than an opportunity to establish more puts two weeks further out.

by kafkagoeswest Trump’s economic policies aren’t preventing what we’re seeing in Europe right now, from happening to America in the next six weeks. We are no closer to containment, and even as we see massive events cancelled like SXSW and …

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BONDS ARE NOT A SAFE HAVEN FOR INVESTORS. Although bonds sold to investors are unsecured and second in line to pursue claims when a firm goes bankrupt behind secured lenders, YIELDS ARE CURRENTLY WAY OUT OF LINE WITH THEIR RISKS. There are many obvious reasons, but here’s seven of them:

by toxicmarkets1 #7. Financial Market Regulators have been in Wall Street’s pocket for longer than anyone can remember. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124208012 #6. Financial Behemoth Bankruptcies ( i.e. Lehman Bros, Bear Stearns, LTCM, Kidder, AIG) https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2019/01/creditor-recovery-in-lehmans-bankruptcy.html #5. US Treasuries and the current debt …

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