I recently sat down with quantitative fund manager Meb Faber for an interview… If you’re not familiar with Meb, he runs The Meb Faber Show podcast. And he’s closing in on 100,000 Twitter followers. (If you’re a Twitter user, you can find him right here.) Meb’s “day job” is managing 12 publicly traded exchange-traded funds …
On Friday, I explained that many investors fall into the “big picture” trap… The short of it is that these folks use the S&P 500 Index as their barometer for stocks. And when the broad market is headed up, they simply look for the “hot stock of the day.” Without even realizing it, investors taking …
Many investors began worrying about a crash earlier this year… And Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February amplified those fears. The S&P 500 Index lost as much as 13% from the beginning of 2022 through early March. That put the benchmark index in “correction” territory for the first time since the early days of …
Your suspicions are correct… The U.S. stock market is a wildly different animal than it was even just three months ago. That’s true in terms of both the fundamentals and the technicals. Behind this shift is a financial story that no one is telling right now. And it’s keeping me up at night. I can …
“You’re not really going to only rely on the firm’s research, are you?” It was 1966. I had just landed a position as a broker. And at the time, I really did think my own firm’s research would be more than enough for me and my clients. But then, a member of the “old guard” …
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Information leaks… The “smart money” buys ahead of major announcements… And analysts at the biggest investment banks have unprecedented access to what’s happening. That’s just how the world works. There’s no getting around it. Now, don’t get me wrong… I’m not saying the reign of the “insiders club” is the way it should be. But …
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Folks, we’re in a midterm election year… And if history proves right, things are going to get worse before they get better. The average peak-to-trough pullback in midterm election years over the past century is 17.4%. That’s roughly eight percentage points worse than the current decline… The benchmark S&P 500 Index recently dropped into “correction” …
The Federal Reserve is set to raise the benchmark interest rate later today… If the central bank does that, it will be the first initial rate hike since 1990 with the S&P 500 Index down more than 10% from its high. And investors are looking up at a lot of storm clouds right now… The …
“Based on the bearish Power Gauge rating, I think the risk of a negative earnings surprise is too great.” I said those words in 2012… as I was appearing, for the first time, on CNBC’s Fast Money Halftime Report. On the panel next to me was Jon Najarian. I’m guessing you’ve heard of him… The …
Editor’s note: We’ve talked a lot about the Power Gauge over the past few months. But so far, we haven’t shared exactly how our proprietary system came to life. That all changes today… In this essay, Chaikin Analytics founder Marc Chaikin details the event that forced him out of retirement more than a decade ago. …
