Mission Accomplished

The phrase “Mission Accomplished” entered our lexicon on May, 1 2003, when the Bush II administration hung a huge banner across the bridge of USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier… Of course, the U.S. mission in Iraq wasn’t accomplished at all. U.S. troops were mired in the Iraqi civil war for 8 more years. And the […]

Correction Call and the Cost of Opportunity

To quote Chris Rock… “that’s right I said it!”  On Monday, I suggested a correction for the S&P 500 might be at hand. And if you wanna pile on a little, feel free to scroll back through the Pro Trader Today archives… But – I can save you the trouble.  I’ve been cautious on stocks […]

Correction time…Maybe?

We’ve gotten a few “developments” over the last couple of days that the stock market doesn’t seem to like very much… First, there were the minutes from the most recent FOMC meeting. You know the one, on June 14, where the Fed opted to leave rates where they were, at 5%-5.25%. But the bigger news […]

The Second American Industrialization

A few months back, I started about what I called the Second American Industrialization. The idea was that the whole process of deglobalization – de-coupling from China, breaking American companies supply chain dependence on an unfriendly country and re-shoring manufacturing to the U.S. and its neighbors – would bring about a new era of economic […]

Peak Oil Demand

My son graduated high school in 2020. And he started college in fall of the same year. Obviously, the pandemic cost him a lot… That final semester of a senior year in high school, sheesh. When the cliques fade away as the kids realize all the high school drama was bullshit and they’re about to […]

Bitcoin and Block (NASDAQ: SQ)Trade Update

On Wednesday, I laid out my bullish thoughts on bitcoin. The world’s biggest asset manager Blackrock (NYSE: BLK) is set to launch a Bitcoin ETF that will be backed by actual bitcoin instead of derivatives like options and swaps. It sure seems that this marks a new era of acceptance for bitcoin and that will […]

My Charts Say: Take the Summer Off

We’ve already had a lot of excitement over the last few months. Mini-bank crisis, debt-ceiling, AI stocks broke out, the S&P 500 entered a new bull market, a Fed meeting came and went without a rate hike – maybe a little break from all that action would be a good thing.

The Broken Fed

We talked on Friday that it was time to take a little off the table. After all, the S&P had shot 3.6% higher since a new bull market was confirmed on June 8. And right on cue, the selling started. The S&P 500 has been down every day since Friday. Yes, the pullback we’ve seen is partly because the AI hype was off the charts. And the rush to buy stocks after the “surprise” breakout for stocks at new highs had a roll to play too…

Time to Lighten Up

So, as a kind of disclaimer, it is not my plan to talk about things I see on Twitter all the time. Because, Twitter is mostly a cesspool and very little of the content is worthy of even reading, much less repeating… BUT — some pearls do get strewn from time to time. Like this ad I saw this morning…

Ancient Branding Secret

I first recommended Chewy (NASDAQ: CHWY) back in October 2019, at $26.50 a share. My reasoning for recommending the stock was based on branding – Chewy was emerging as the go-to brand for pet owners. But the timing of that recommendation is what really stands out…

Where is the top?

I’ve been doing my fair share of griping lately. Because it drives me nuts when all the strategist-types from the big investment banks, along with the mainstream financial gurus, continue to pound away at the bear market case for stocks, despite growing evidence that there is a new bull market in the works.

Fashionably Late to the Party

It sure seems like Wall Street and the financial media don’t want you to make any money in the stock market. I don’t know how else to explain the steady drumbeat of recession predictions, AI stock bubble declarations, and interest rate/inflation hawkishness…