Gold, silver rally, but stocks still mostly in the Monday doldrums
Gold and silver and their respective ETFs continued to rally Monday, adding some actual luster to their recent resurrection in value.
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Stocks encounter coronavirus blues. Robinhood idiots boosting gold?
Both the coronavirus blues and the largely millennial Robinhood idiots who inflated the techs to absurd heights roiled stocks again today.
Trading Diary: Some portfolio perestroika as stocks catch a bid
Our portfolios have been pounded this week. Good inflation news helps stocks Friday, though the selling tsunami may not be over yet. (But Home Depot rules.)
Trading Diary: Raising cash, buying gold and going dormant
Active investors are sometimes best off by laying low in the weeds and waiting for better investment opportunities.
Oil tanks big time into bear market territory, markets get nervous
After robustly bullish Monday trading, stocks and commodities catch the vapors in Tuesday trading action as crude inventories build. WTI off 3 percent.
Movie Review: Thar’s Gold in them thar hills: But it is easy to miss
Kenny Wells has always worked in his father’s profitable business, Washoe Mining. He knows his craft, but he is not his father.
Morgan Stanley up, gold pummeled, Wednesday traders confused
Wall Street giveth and Wall Street taketh away. Right now, the Street taketh a lot, as wildly uneven trading, world events have put a lid on the Trump Rally.
‘Mother of all bombs’ blasts ISIS… and the U.S. stock market
Attack on ISIS-Khorasan complex in Afghanistan spooks Wall Street’s traders big time as the long Easter holiday weekend approaches.
Trump Syrian action boosts gold, but Friday stocks stuck in neutral
Gold gets a kick in its lazy rear as U.S. demonstrates its military still exists. Gorsuch approved in a big Trump win, but markets say “Meh” to it all.
Friday stocks: Oil, gold, tech up; Dow, S&P 500 flat to down
March market action looks more and more like a sideways correction to the Trump Rally. Crude oil, gold get back in the game.
Trading Diary: Cash still king as Wall Street corrects
Just when we were set to do some cautious nibbling on decently priced stocks, the bears roared back into action Tuesday morning. We continue on defense. Puts, anyone?
Trump promises ‘big league’ tax announcement, stocks soar
Meanwhile, oil catches a bid after recent downdraft while gold jumps, then takes a hit. Financials try to regain footing. “Animal spirits” back on Wall Street?
Monday markets: Stocks back and fill, digesting recent rally
Friday job stats make it likely Fed will hold interest rates steady. For now. Gold pops again, financials take a rest, oils weaken.
Trading Diary: Gold, silver, copper back on the plate
Buckle your investing seatbelts for another fun and unpredictable week of Trump Administration chaos. It should end well, but the ride in stocks will be bumpy.
Trading tools: Colorful stock market heat maps help traders
For short and medium term oriented traders, heat maps are invaluable tools for gauging daily market sentiment as well as finding good buy and sell points.
Watchful Waiting: Traders sit tight pending election results
Confused stock markets open down, then move to the upside as active traders try gaming tonight’s election results. Focus on gold, silver ETFs, preferred stocks.
Apple’s iPhone 7 gets mixed reviews, stock sinks, markets drag
WASHINGTON, September 8, 2016 – Weirdness and indirection continued to grip Wall Street Thursday as all three major averages—the DJI, the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ—are currently down. The NASDAQ, in fact, is doing the worst, off 38.67 points as of 2 p.m. EDT, a negative 0.8 percent, likely due in part to heavily weighted ...
Tuesday trading: Investors fearful of September interest hike
After Monday’s respectable display of bullish irrational exuberance, Mr. Market goes negative Tuesday and tries to take it all away. Gold, oil down, dollar up.
Freaky Friday: After nightmare in Nice, gold and silver DOWN?
It’s options expiration Friday, and all market bets are off. Terrorist attack in Nice gives trading a slightly negative tone, but crude oil is trying to recover.
UK Brexit-related assassination tanks Thursday gold trade
WASHINGTON, June 17, 2016 – It’s been one truly strange Wall Street week, as dueling narratives—federal government lies vs. political reality on the ground—are driving more traders to head for the exits this week. For the most part. Thursday’s trading action saw markets tanking big-time, until, bizarrely, the tragic assassination of Jo Cox, a pro-EU ...