Down, Down, Down

Down, Down, Down All major markets are down today.  The S&P 500 dropped below 5,000 points, the DJIA is off 700 points and even gold fell to $2,007 an ounce.  Bitcoin dropped a bit to $49,071 but oil climbed a few points to $77.99 for a barrel of West Texas Intermediary. The reason for this […]

Looking for a Bargain Investment, Part II

Last Wednesday, I shared one of my favorite stock market quotes with you… When you locate a bargain, you must ask “Why me God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?”  Warren Buffett’s longtime partner at Berkshire Hathaway, Charlie Munger, gets the credit for that little chestnut.  If you didn’t read […]

Chart of the Week: Credit Card Delinquencies

Chart of the Week (COW) Credit Card Delinquencies are Jumping Young adults are getting into serious trouble with their credit cards.  We haven’t seen a surge like this since the Great Recession. Credit card debt is at a record high of $1.13 trillion up $50 billion in just the quarter.  Delinquencies are also hitting highs […]

Japan is Back, Almost

Anyone who was sentient in the 1980s understands the pure force of the Japanese mania at the time.  The country was booming, building great cars and sound systems and searching the world for investments. You may remember Lee Iacocca  put out a commercial lamenting that when they put a Japanese name plate on a Chrysler […]

Looking for a Bargain Investment?

When you locate a bargain, you must ask “Why me God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?”  That’s a quote from Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s long time partner at Berkshire Hathaway. And it’s one of the greatest quotes about investing ever, because it points to what is probably the biggest […]

Palantir Jumps 30% on Earnings News

Palantir Jumps 30% on Earnings News When you hear the word “Palantir” your first thought likely goes to the crystal balls that were made by the Elves of Valinor in the First Age and were used for communication and seeing the past. However, today we are talking about Palantir Technologies (PLTR) a company that builds […]

Forewarned is Forearmed

Like most people, I have dabbled with a few different AI applications. Like, I’ve asked ChatGPT to synthesize a few images that I wanted – images that would’ve taken me hours of Photoshop-style cutting & pasting to create… I’ve sampled AI versions of a couple business partnership agreements. And I’ve asked AI to perform various […]

Chart of the week (COW) via the Wall Street Journal:

Here the chart of the week (COW) via the Wall Street Journal: It shows a surprise jump in new hires from last month.  After hearing a lot of layoffs at major tech firms one would expect this number to go down.  Unemployment is officially at 3.7%.   The economy seems to be doing great and yet […]

New High for this AI Stock

Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn’t an emerging trend. AI isn’t the next big thing.  AI is happening right now, as we speak. It is today’s big thing, not tomorrow’s. And it has been for nearly a year.  It is no longer appropriate to sit on the sidelines waiting for the moment when AI technology and the […]

The Global Supply Chain is in Dire Straights

The Global Supply Chain is in Dire Straights A few years ago Peter Ziehan had a best selling book called, “The End of the World is Just Beginning.”  In it he theorized that the systems that had been set up post-world war II no longer made sense and were breaking down. The U.S. Navy essentially […]

Ignore the Fed

You may not remember that the Fed was hiking interest rates at the start of 2018. I didn’t, I had to look it up… I’m actually pretty proud of the amount of numbers and dates my brain keeps sorted and ready for pretty much instant recall. At the same time, I try not to be […]

The Microsoft Earnings Trade That Has Worked 11 Times in a Row

Here at Pro Trader Today we have about fifty-five years of market experience which is why we can give you profitable information that you won’t find anywhere else.  And one of them is Christian DeHaemer’s secret Microsoft Earnings Hack. I know MSFT.  I first bought the stock in 1999 and promptly lost half my money […]