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TGIF – The Weak Ends Just in Time
Now oil is down 2.5%. Of course $62 is going to be bouncy, that's our shorting line and, according to the fabulous 5% Rule™, a 5% drop gives us 1% bounces (20% of the drop) and we're down $1.60 from... 
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32,000 Thursday – Dow Touches Another Record
Dow 32,000! I guess it's time to read that book by Glassman and Hassett from 1999 – as that was their prediction at the time for where we'd be in 5 years.  Sure it's 22 years later but, hey, better... 
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What’s Next Wednesday – Powell Keeps it Easy but States are Raising Taxes
MORE FREE MONEY!!! That was the message from Fed Chair Jerome Powell yesterday as he told the Senate the the Fed would hold interest rates near zero pretty much no matter what and the Fed would keep... 
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Toppy Tuesday – What More Can Powell Say or Do at this Point?
Here we are again . Indexes are still hovering around their all-time highs and Fed Chairman Powell is speaking to Congress.  What is he going to say?  What can he possibly say to make you believe that... 
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Monday Market Movement – The Weak Ahead
$4,000,000,000,000 .. That's how much the M2 Money Supply has grown (26%) in the past 12 months (vs around 5% in a typical year) and it's going to grow another $4Tn this year as the Fed continues their... 
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PhilStockWorld February Portfolio Review – Part 2
Does trading have to be exciting?    While the market remains at all-time highs, I remain skeptical and a lot of that is because I allowed myself to become complacent in 2007, after having missed the... 
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PhilStockWorld February Portfolio Review
$1,766,591!    Our paried Long & Short-Term Portfolios have gained $157,564 since our January Review and that is, of course, ridiculous and reflective of this ridiculous bubble rally.  The LTP went up... 
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Retail Wednesday – Is America Shopping?
Retail Sales . They make up 60% of our GDP and December's Retail Sales were down 0.7% in December from the previous month, rather than up 3-4% as expected for the holidays.   Anything positive this... 
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Tricky Tuesday – Futures Jacked Up During US Holiday to Fool Who?
This is total BS! The S&P 500 is up 40 points (1%) since Friday's close and the Dow is up 300 points, etc. on NO news and NO trading – just some last minute window-dressing into the bell and after... 
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Thousand-Dollar Friday – Our Futures Shorts Pay off Nicely!
Are we having fun yet? In Wednedsday's Live Trading Webinar , we discussed using $58.50 as a shorting line for Oil ( /CL ) Futures and we had a couple of small dips but we finally caught the big one... 
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Faltering Thursday – Economy Shows Signs of Struggle
Best Buy Is Cutting Some Store Workers’ Jobs, Reducing Hours Uber’s Food-Delivery Business, Cost Cuts Cushion Pandemic Hit Biden Administration Says Schools Have Reopened If They Are Open One Day a... 
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Which Way Wednesday – Powell and the 10-Year Note
Brother can you spare 410Bn dimes ?    That's what we need to sell in today's 10-Year Note Auction and, if you have $41Bn to spare for 10-years, our Government will be happy to pay you almost (but not... 
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Tuesday Trouble at 2,300 on the Russell 2000
Small Cap Stock . The kind that should give us an indication of the health of the broad economy but, according to the Russell 2000 this past year – 2020 could not have been better as our small cap... 
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Monday Market Momentum – Still Going Up
Inflation! That's the new word driving the markets.  Of course all this freshly-printed money was eventually going to spill out into the economy but, all of a sudden (after strategy meetings at Davos)... 
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Non-Farm Friday – Is America Working?
This has not been a good trend . Since the ill-conceived Summer Walk-Out, when everyone decided the virus was no longer a threat.. just because…  we have been going the other way as the virus has... 
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38 Thursday: S&P 3,800, 3,800 Deaths Yesterday and Bitcoin $38,000
A lot of 38s this morning . I'm not one of those numbers people but I just noticed it in my scans and found it interesting.  More so, I find it disturbing that 3,843 Americans died yesterday from... 
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Webinar Wednesday – Guest-Starring Bill Olsen of Newsware
Let's talk Fundamentals . Our guest today in our 1pm (EST) Live Trading Webinar will be Bill Olsen of Newsware and he's going to show us lots of tricks to get the most out of his platform, which is... 
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Federally Fueled Tuesday – Stimulus Talks Advance and Fed Makes Nice Noises
Productive! That's what they are saying about yesterday's negotiations between Joe Biden and the GOP Senators yesterday and that means $1,900,000,000,000.00 of MORE FREE MONEY is still on the table, so... 
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Market Week Ahead – High Ho Silver Trading
Now silver is flying thanks to Reddit . Silver rose by as much as 11% to $30 an ounce , its highest value since 2013.  The moves are the latest example of small-time traders buying stocks and other... 
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Flip Floppin’ Friday – Closing out a Wild Week
What a ride.    GameStop (GME) went from $75 to $483 to $112 and now $335 pre-market and it's like watching a ball bounce around a roulette wheel at the moment except, at least on a roulette wheel –... 
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Thrilling Thursday – GameStop $500 is no more Ridiculous than Tesla $900
WTF people? GameStop (GME) is "only" up 830% in the past 12 months while Tesla (TSLA) is p 1,386%.  The market cap of GameStop is $24Bn and that's completely ridiculous as Best Buy (BBY) , who sells... 
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Weakening Wednesday – GameStop and Bust!
$4,000 per contract ( you're welcome ) ! That's the profit from yesterday's Russell ( /RTY ) Futures shorts at 2,180 as we're now falling back all the way to 2,100 and we'll stop out 1/2 here to lock... 
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Testy Tuesday – S&P 3,850 Edition
S&P 3,850 . That's 1,000 points (35%) over our Must Hold Level though we have discussed how low tax rates are adding 10% and stimulus is adding 20% so that accounts for most of the growth over the past... 
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The Market Week Ahead – Earnings Start to Matter
Now we're getting some action!   About 1/3 of the S&P 500 reports this week so there should be lots of opportunities for baragain hunting – unless, of course the earnings are not good and we finally... 
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Friday Failure – Europe in a Recession Seems to Matter
Recession in Europe – again? The eurozone economy has suffered a weak start to the year , with high coronavirus infection rates and government restrictions increasing the risk of a second recession... 
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3,850 Thursday – S&P 500 Seems Comfortable 700 Points Over the Must Hold Line
3,150 . That's still the true value-line we have for the S&P 500 based on old-fashioned notions like actual earnings and actual prospects without the assumption of Trillions of Dollars being pumped... 
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Whipsaw Wednesday – America Heads in a New Direction
We're going to go back to the future!   After taking an evolutionary step backwards for four years, it's time to get America back on track and moving forward again in the 21st Century and, hopefully,... 
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Tuesday Already?
January 19th already, too . This new year is flying by and maybe that's because 2020 seemed to take forever.  Even though we are still locked down, there is, hopefully, light at the end of the tunnel... 
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Happy Martin Luther King Day
It's Martin Luther King day so the markets are closed. It's a good day to read his " I Have a Dream " speech – really is amazing when you think of the great social change in this nation that was set in... 
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Free Money Friday – Biden Pledges Another $1.9Tn for the Bonfire
New Administration, same policy .  Joe Biden pledged yesterday to give all of us another $1,400 in direct payments and, in a shocking change of policy from the previous administration, plededg real... 
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