The blood profits are flowing for those with a stomach for investing in military defense companies in times of war. I feel uncomfortable profiting from defense stocks in wartime and have kept away, but it takes all sorts to make the world spin. So the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the first few days looks like a cakewalk as an endless rolling mass of Russian armor, tanks confidently, arrogantly thrust deep into Ukrainian territory...
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Marketbeat outlines a raft of investor indicators that might be worth checking. There are many sites, one of my favorite ones that offer high-quality stock research tools and making them available to investors at all levels is Marketbeat. The site is user-friendly and provides some very helpful investor indicators. So, if we take a look at Blackberry (BB) with Marketbeat some of the investor indicators include , institutional...
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The declining labor force participation rates were already in play before the pandemic hit as fourth industrial revolution technologies, the digitalization of everything, the fintech revolution and ongoing automation from cashier-less stores, automated vehicles, and fast industrial robot production lines, has meant that humans need not apply. The declining labor force participation rates in the Fourth Industrial Revolution is a macro...
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Unorthodox investing strategies during these extraordinary times could be one way of achieving alpha, which is to outperform the benchmark index. The so-called “new normal” is anything but normal. Central bank liquidity is at an all-time high, US federal debt in the pandemic economy has spiked from 77% of GDP to 108% of GDP by this time next year. Nevertheless, despite this level of economic distress and uncertainty stocks are...
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Has value investing died in this new normal as the fundamentals meltdown and risk asset prices melt-up where all that counts is the central bank’s willingness to keep stocks propped up with massive amounts of liquidity. Not even a deep earnings recession, a coronavirus-induced collapse in profits where earnings have been tipped to fall by 60% in the quarter has dampened the recent bull run in stocks. So the financially...
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A momentum trading strategy would have made sizeable profits for traders and investors in the recent crude oil price recovery, which has seen crude oil WTI price rise from $15.06 in late April to $31.9 at the time of writing this piece. Put another way, momentum trading/investing crude oil, at best entry and exit levels would have yielded a 100% return on capital, and if the trade was leveraged by say 10, those returns would have been...
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