Recent Articles/Videos JD.com Update — An update on where we think JD.com can go from here. Red Teaming — A review of one of the most important analysis techniques we utilize at Macro Ops. Articles I’m reading Sri Thiruvadanthai wrote a fantastic post on monetary policy feedback loops and instability. Anybody who has studied Soros knows…
The stock market is at record highs and people with FICO scores as low as 500 are once again happily obtaining mortgages. Not only that, but these mortgages are once again being securitized and are in demand by yield chasers. All of the elements that are necessary for the 2008 subprime crisis to repeat itself…
As many of you know, every month I like to highlight several stocks I am considering adding to my portfolio for my monthly buy(s). Looking forward towards April, I realize that I have way more than a “few” names I am considering adding to my portfolio. The recent market volatility we have been witnessing the…
Few consumer trends of the past decade have been as pronounced as the shift away from the broadcast, “live” model of programming to the video-on-demand (VOD), or streaming, model. Since launching its streaming service just 10 years ago, Netflix (NFLXNetflix ( now boasts almost 120 million subscribers worldwide, streaming one billion hours of content every week! Amazon’s…
Stocks staged a broad rally ahead of the three-day Easter weekend as technology shares rebounded, but the blue-chip Dow index still suffered its first quarterly loss in more than two years. The Dow closed the quarter 2.3% lower and the S&P 500 slid 2.7% in the period, while the Nasdaq came in with a 2.3% gain…
Industrial metals are considered to be the building blocks of an economy. Despite concerns of a looming global trade war — due to the recent imposition of tariffs — adding an element of uncertainty to the outlook lately, there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the industrial metals industry over the long term….
The Atlanta Fed GDPNow forecast came out yesterday, the New York Fed Nowcast today. The GDPNow Forecast and the FRNBNY Nowcast GDP forecasts for the first quarter took a leap towards convergence with the former rising and the latter falling this week. Nowcast Latest Forecast: 2.7 Percent – March 30, 2018 The New York Fed Staff Nowcast stands…
For only the 4th time this year, 13 weeks, the market has managed to stay inside the weekly expected move. We don’t think this means volatility is over. Video Length: 00:23:08
Each candle on the following charts of the Dow 30, S&P 500, Nasdaq 100 and Russell 2000 Indices represents a period of one quarter of one year. Buyers tested the waters above the highs of 2017, but were not able to hold those gains as they received little to no support to advance any further, and even gave up most of them, by the…
