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Ted vs. ARKK January 14, 2022 Big Picture. Big Profits., Investing, Trading Strategies One of the hallmarks of an asset bubble is that investors increasingly rely on “faith and love” to justify their decisions. Indeed, hanging on to promising stocks when they’re down is critical to long-term returns. That’s why I always remind Bauman Letter readers to stay smart and tough. But the smart part is critical. In today’s video, I look at recent market performance in the context of rapidly rising interest rate expectations to identify the stocks that justify faith and love … and those that don’t.
Like A Virgin Galactic; Meta’s FTC Jamboree; Delta Ain’t Dallying January 13, 2022 Great Stuff Neither A Borrower Nor A Branson Be Here’s the story … of a lovely space stock! That was bringing up some very lovely satellites. All of them had funding problems … just like their mother … the youngest one in curls. Curly satellites? You OK there, Team Great Stuff? And that, Great Ones, is how […]
Bank It or Tank It: UOA Trades on Your Favorite Stocks January 13, 2022 Bank It or Tank It, Trading Strategies, True Options Masters In the first Bank It or Tank It of 2022, Chad Shoop takes a look at five of your favorite stocks — and how Big Money is trading them...
Beware the Stock Market’s Growth Stock Sale January 12, 2022 Big Picture. Big Profits., Investing, Investment Opportunities When it comes to toying with your emotions, there’s probably no place worse than the stock market. That’s because our instincts and built-in tendencies serve us poorly as investors. There’s even a growing field to study and explain these “behavioral biases.” Some are well-documented, like herding. That’s where investors just follow what everyone else is doing (which is a bad idea, of course).But there’s another instinct I’m seeing a lot more of lately. And like all the others we fall prey to, when followed blindly, it can do real damage to your portfolio. That is: the urge to buy something on sale.
Get Ready for 2022’s “Big Short” January 11, 2022 Big Picture. Big Profits., Economy, Investing Originators handed out adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) like Halloween candy. Big banks packed them into MBS. They bribed agencies for AAA ratings. Then they sold them to unsuspecting investors. The shorts predicted that when ARMs began to reset in the second quarter of 2007, the MBS market would collapse like a Jenga tower .That’s exactly what it did. Their short bets earned them billions. The rest of the financial system collapsed. All through the movie, I kept asking myself one question … where’s the opportunity for today’s Big Short?





