Did ordinary investors just shoot themselves in the foot… again? A recent Sentiment survey by the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) seems to say "Yes". According to the survey, optimism among individual investors has hit a six-month low. Just one week…
Hi there... On April 20th, crude oil futures for the May 2020 contract went negative to the tune of -$38 a barrel. That meant you could have been paid $38,000 to take delivery of 1,000 barrels of oil – the…
Hi there... Big Bill here. As we enter Week 4,778 of the lockdown (or what feels like it)... How are you and your family getting on? I'm holding up tolerably well and digging into some books I bought last year…
Everyone wants to know if the stock market has bottomed. On March 23rd, the S&P 500, the primary US stock market benchmark, fell to a recent low of 2,237 (2,191 intraday). From the February record highs, that’s a decline of…
We all take "on-demand" power for granted. From our gas stoves… to the lights in our homes … to our air conditioning and heating systems… and every other modern convenience… No one worries much about whether "juice" will be available…
Happy Sunday. Thanks as always for stopping by... Today we're going to take up where we left off two weeks ago ("This Sector Is a Victim of the Feds") when we looked at the mortgage home industry. Specifically, we saw…
While millions of Americans eagerly await the stimulus checks from the U.S Treasury, readers of Profit Skimmer, my options trading service, have been creating some "stimulus" of their own. And we have the Federal Reserve to thank for this latest…
It was a warm October morning in 2019. I was headed out for my daily caffeine fix, and as I drove I sensed something weird with the sky. There was a strange, giant grey cloud on the horizon. At first…
Hello my friend, Thanks for stopping by. If you celebrate either -- Happy Easter and Happy Passover. I will be using the Zoom app to "meet" with my family this Easter. It should be fun. (Although I don't know how the…
The dreaded “Death Cross”… Sounds scary, doesn’t it? It’s one of the oldest technical indicators in the book. And get this. It was triggered just this past week (On Tuesday, March 30th). If you’re unfamiliar with this technical indicator, you…