Written by: Angela Akers As expected, Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome Powell, and his mighty band of freedom fighters cut the key interest rate by 25 basis points Wednesday, that was the “good news.” However, the “bad news” was that the Fed signaled fewer cuts in 2025 than previously projected, dropping to two rate cuts from the four forecasted [...]
Written by: Angela Akers Sometimes investing inspiration and ideas spark from random events. This week, I happen to be in North Carolina for our annual VectorVest Christmas party. I was randomly discussing “Christmas colors” over coffee with a colleague and she mentioned that gold was also a Christmas color. I agreed and we moved on. However, [...]
Written by: Angela Akers “Plan your trade and trade your plan” is a saying I’ve heard many times working in this field. While it’s not easy to nail down exactly who came up with that saying, it has been attributed to early trend followers. VectorVest is the epitome of “trend following,” and Dr. DiLiddo always believed [...]
Written by: Angela Akers The Russell 2000 is the quintessential index of the Small Cap market and is up 19.60% year-to-date through November 26, 2024. More than 8% of that gain came during the post-election market run. I ran across an article on Financial Times Monday morning titled “Trump rally carries US small-cap stocks [...]
Written by: Angela Akers Crypto has been flying high since the results of the election. The reason should not be a surprise. Throughout his campaign, President re-elect Trump openly supported Bitcoin and touted that he’d like to make the US the “crypto capital of the planet.” This week, it became apparent that the 47th [...]
Written by: Angela Akers What a difference a week makes! Last week, the Trump Rally was running hot, and the indexes were hitting highs. This week, economists and the talking heads began discussing “Trumpflation” again and the mood changed drastically. If you recall, “Trumpflation” was a term that was coined leading up to the [...]
Written by: Angela Akers Temperatures have been heating up over the last week as we move toward home base in the 2024 Presidential Election which culminates this coming Tuesday, November 5th. Former President Donald Trump is running on the Republican ticket and Vice President Kamala Harris is running on the Democratic ticket, and they [...]
Written by: Angela Akers A couple of weeks ago, October 11, 2024, I wrote an Essay entitled, “An Understanding Of Earnings Growth.” In the Essay, I compared the VectorVest GRT forecast for the S&P 500 to the FactSet Earnings Growth and the actual growth. As a reminder, VectorVest Earnings Growth (GRT) reflects a one [...]
Written by: Angela Akers Third quarter earnings season began in earnest last Friday with upbeat earnings from JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo and fully bloomed this week as Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Bank of America followed suit, beating on both the top and bottom lines. All lending support to the economic soft landing the [...]
Written by: John LinDahl What are these things called “options”? What is the mystique about them and are they as risky as people say? There are lots of myths about options and how they are supposed to be dangerous. While every investment contains risk, if used correctly, options can reduce risk and increase profits. [...]
