Tag: market
Rent The House You Live In… Buy One Far Away To Rent Out…
I enjoyed two recent articles by Andrea Riquier at MarketWatch. The first was “The new housing play: helping priced-out renters become long-distance landlords.” It was a strategy aimed at people living in unaffordable areas – like San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, or New York… By renting there to avoid both high purchase costs and a major bubble […]
5 Ways To Play Tariff Worries
These corners of the market are a safer place for investors to settle during a trade war U.S. equities continue to trade nervously at the start of U.S. trade tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese imports — an act that will then be met with countervailing tariffs on U.S. imports by the Chinese. While far […]
The Little Market That Could
So what do you think of the market? Why are both actual and implied volatility so low? Why are the moves so small, but predominantly up? Is this the closest impression of the Chinese Water Torture that a stock market can pull off? Why doesn’t the market care about external and internal risks? Doesn’t it […]
Day Trading Making A Comeback?
The Down Jones Industrial Average just posted a triple digit move. I’ve typed this line so many times in the last few months, I feel like a recording. “Is it live or is it Memorex?” I don’t know about you but I’m frustrated by the volatility. That’s when I started thinking (dangerous I know). There […]
Falling Dollar’s Effect On Stock Market
Lately, the US markets have been whipsawing back and forth. Up 100, down 100, up 100. It’s hard to find a trend in markets like these, but I’ve found one . . . the US dollar. It seems like the US dollar has fallen every day for the last few months. For some people this […]
Technology Sector To Lead Next Bull Market
“Hey, check this out” a friend of mine said as he thrust his new watch in my direction. We were meeting for a quick drink after work. I was debating how much longer rush hour traffic would clog the freeways, and he was excitedly talking about his new business venture. Our discussion quickly turned to […]
