A Year For Retail Investors This was an interesting year because typically individual investors have very poor returns, but in 2020 their favorites trounced the index. Retail investors barely make money on average. The concept of even matching the market is foreign to them. Few usually beat the S P
Income Consumption Fall The November PCE report came out a couple days early because of Christmas. It’s in line with the other data we’ve gotten which shows November wasn’t a great month for consumer spending. As you can see from the chart below, real personal incomes excluding benefits from the gov
Christmas Unusual Option Activity Report As Christmas fast approaches and 2021 is almost a reality, option traders are doing last minute shopping. These “stocking stuffers’ are plays that are looking for a positive move by New Year’s Eve. While it’s impossible to know which publicly traded companies
Still A Bubble The past few days have been mixed for stocks, but there is still a ton of speculation in the market. The biggest example of this speculation is in Apple stock. Apple was up 2.9% which put it just 1.7% below its record high. It rose on the story that it will have
Redbook Sales Growth Bumps Up Redbook spending growth in the week of December 19th rose from 2.5% to 6.5%. That’s actually a good reading. It had been in the low single digits for a while. If it can stay in the mid-single digits, it will be a positive sign. As for now, it’s just 1 week
UAL Unusual Option Activity What will 2021 bring for the travel industry and especially the airline industry and especially United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: UAL)? There are the transitory factors like COVID-19, but there is also the potential for more permanent changes in how people travel. For
Slight Decline Monday Following the stimulus agreement and the worries about a new COVID-19 strain, the stock market opened down largely on Monday. Throughout the day, the market recovered. It only ended up down modestly, with small caps ending up. Small cap value was the biggest loser. You can say
The Stimulus Is Finally Here Congress finally passed a stimulus. We have been waiting for one since October. Most didn’t think anything would pass initially, but also it seemed improbable that people on unemployment would be left out to dry. What really pushed Congress in the direction towards getti
Oil Stock Unusual Option Activity Report If you follow the oil market, there is so much to digest right now. Between stimulus, draconian COVID measures and the possibility that a more virulent version of COVID is muddying the waters. If you’ve read the blog, I’ve been pretty bullish on oil and energ
Share of electric automaker, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA), was officially added to the S P 500. The response from the stock may be surprising, it was down 5.4% at the time of this writing. Being added to the S P 500 is a major milestone for the company, but will the company have more impact on the
