As the media goes on and on about a supposed ‘China crisis’, as if a 1% decline in China’s GDP growth constitutes a depression, Brazil was recently downgraded to ‘junk’ by Standard and Poors, meaning that Brazil’s economy, which is heavily dependent on oil, is doing so poorly that the risk of default can no… Continue reading The Economic Crisis Is In Brazil and Turkey, Not China
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Aggressive SPX Bull Call Option Strategy To Play Market Rebound
The stock market is going higher and I have positioned myself accordingly, but there is also a small probability that within the next month the S&P 500 will stage a complete V-shaped recovery and retest the highs above 2100, similar to the v-shaped rebound October 2014. To profit from a v-shaped rebound, I opened a… Continue reading Aggressive SPX Bull Call Option Strategy To Play Market Rebound
Trolling and Fear of Rejection – A link?
The slow news cycle resumes…not much to blog about. From Salon: Why do Internet trolls troll? They might be sadists Maybe’s it’s not sadism, but opposite – a lack of confidence. Trolling could be a mechanism for lowering expectations, a way to dull the sting of rejection, which according to studies is a really awful.… Continue reading Trolling and Fear of Rejection – A link?
Interest Rates Are Not Going Up
For once I agree with the broken clock Peter Schiff: Peter Schiff: “The Fed Won’t Raise Rates, It’s Part of the Bluff” The human bullhorn is right. All this speculation about a rite hike is just that – speculation. The fed isn’t going to do anything until the very, very end, when it’s so obvious… Continue reading Interest Rates Are Not Going Up
Revisiting the SVXY strategy (and why I like SVXY over VXX)
In October 2014 as the Market plunged, I devised a strategy to make money buying SVXY call options. To get up to speed, read part 1 and part 2. I also recommend checking out DRT trading …I just found this site today and it is perhaps one of the best websites on index option trading… Continue reading Revisiting the SVXY strategy (and why I like SVXY over VXX)
How the left spreads misinformation, fear, and bad advice to ‘save/protect’ people
In their war on the ownership society, the left wants people to rent instead of owning homes. Because so much wealth is held in real estate, one way for the left to accomplish their goal of making society poorer is to get people out of homes and into rentals by spreading misinformation about real estate… Continue reading How the left spreads misinformation, fear, and bad advice to ‘save/protect’ people
A Post About Steve
Rather than having a monomaniac fixation on one or two subjects, Steve is well-read, his blog serving as a platform to showcase his broad repertoire of knowledge – from sports, to movies, to history, and books (particularity, his fondness of Robert Heinlein, Hunter S. Thomson and Tom Wolfe) – to his tens of thousands of… Continue reading A Post About Steve
Our STEM Nobility
From Fortune: Here’s why female engineers are posting pictures of themselves on social media Everyone is obsessed with STEM, particularity with females in STEM. Would Fortune do a cover article about ‘this is what a female hair stylist looks like?’ no. A STEM degree, particularly in mathematics, physics, computer science, or engineering is the cachet… Continue reading Our STEM Nobility
Reiterate: Buy the dip
Reiterate: Buy the dip The market keeps falling even though the fundamentals of the US economy aren’t worsening. Right now, the major indexes are close to the lows made in August during the beginning of the sell-off. (click to enlarge) The recent selling bears a strong resemblance to prior selling in 2014 and in 2011.… Continue reading Reiterate: Buy the dip
Is James Altucher Right About Never Buying a Home?
James Altucher really doesn’t like home ownership, but repeating an argument ad nauseam doesn’t make it good advice. James had a negative experience with real estate due to bad dotcom investments, in addition to 911, which forced him to sell his newly purchased expensive New York apartment at a loss, not because of New York… Continue reading Is James Altucher Right About Never Buying a Home?