Longview Economics: Blow Off Top?
While investors have been transfixed on big-cap tech stocks over the past month, they haven’t been the market leader. Transportation stocks have taken off
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Tastylive: The Last Time Markets Looked Like This, Volatility SPIKED
Market volatility has dropped to its lowest level since the start of the pandemic. Generally, volatility refers to how much investors and traders expect the market
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FX Evolution: Stocks Always Do This… FOMC The Catalyst?
The Federal Reserve has finally paused its policy of interest rate hikes. However, the central bank came out with a hawkish policy statement. Specifically, the bank
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Tastylive: Time to Trade Less?
The market has been fairly calm so far this year. Aside from a brief spike in volatility as the second, third, and fourth-largest bank failures
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IBKR Podcasts: What? No Recession?
Investors have expected a recession for nearly a year now. The Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates since last March. And in 15 months, they’
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ValueWalk: Demand for Financial Advice Up 20% In Year – What’s Driving the Surge?
The world has become an increasingly complex place. Finances are no exception. Yet over the past few decades, the rise of investment tools like a company
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Tastylive: The Most Important Number in Options Trading
As investors and traders alike have increased the use of options, many have entered the space with limited knowledge. Understanding how options work and can be
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Meet Kevin: The Fed U-Turn & Banking Flip
The banking crisis has calmed in recent weeks. And the Federal Reserve has suggested that it’s done raising interest rates for now. While those are
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GMO: The Curious Incident of the Elevated Profit Margins
For the past decade, profit margins for U.S. firms have been elevated compared to their historic average. Predictions for a normalization of profit margins have
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Data Driven Investor: 5 Trading Lessons from the Greatest Samurai
Investors looking to improve their returns may want to look at different philosophies and how they can apply to the stock market. One philosophy that may
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Traders’ Insight: Who’s the Marginal Buyer?
When a stock goes up, the simplest explanation is that buyers exceeded sellers. And when a stock goes down, likewise, it’s easy to say that
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QTR’s Fringe Finance: Our Economic Arrogance Will Be Our Undoing
Predictions are often wrong. That’s true whether they’re made by laymen, or made by experts armed with prior knowledge. For instance, many central banking
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