Market Watch

An Austin, Texas firm is scrambling to explain how on July 12, via a put option, the financial services company reportedly shorted 12 million shares of Trump Media (NASDAQ: DJT) stock, according to an SEC filing. Read More.

Trump Media and Technology Group, former President Donald Trump‘s social media company which launched the Truth Social platform, went public Tuesday after its high-profile merger with Digital World Acquisition Corp., a shell company. Read More.

Joe Biden is boasting about the recent stock market rally. He's right that stocks have been on a tear for the last 14 months. The S&P 500 hit 5,000 for the first time in history. That's up from 500 some 30 years ago. Read More.

Wall Street has been mugged by hard realities in the early going of the 2024 presidential election campaign. Read More.

An overwhelming majority of Americans support prohibiting stock-trading in individual companies by members of Congress. Read More.

Let's face it. Anyone who works in, or just visits, the Wall Street area of Manhattan can't deny the aura of power and money isn't what it was 20, 30 or 50 years ago. Read More.

In a Sept. 7, 2011 article in The New York Times, leftist economist Paul Krugman insisted that Bitcoin was a bubble waiting to burst. He questioned the cryptocurrency's viability as a currency, criticized its decentralized nature, and expressed skepticism about its long-term prospects. Read More.

There is certainly bullish bias in the market for big tech, which means selling could provide buying opportunities.  However, buying the tech sector way up high right before earnings is gambling. Read More.

And even today, yes, the American government is wealthy. China has financial abilities that they've never had before. But even these governments cannot mimic the Federal Reserve. They cannot manipulate the markets for any type of intermediate or longer term time basis. No one and nothing can. The markets are too big. Read More.

The children's tale of the Three Little Pigs imparts an important moral value, one relevant at any age when it comes to trading the markets. Read More.

One of the hallmarks of what we do is that it doesn't matter if the markets go up or down. If they want to go up, we make money. If they want to go down, we make money. We provide consistent returns, regardless of market direction. Read More.

In the wake of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), financial analysts slammed Team Biden for pushing banks to consider LGBTQ+ and global warming over shareholder returns. Read More.

There is always a cost. Decisions and actions are powerfully reflect those costs. Read More.

Stock market participants are also fond of the idea of predictable, seasonal discounts. Read More.

Bear markets, by their nature, are more volatile than bull markets. Bull markets, by their nature, capture most of the history. Read More.