Pendulum Swings Once More?
Hello All,
As the week has progressed, it’s been a relatively quieter one within markets as all the excitement was earlier on in the week following the news of both the U.S. & China coming to a mutual agreement to issue a 90-day pause whilst also having significantly reduced the tariff rate %’s down to 10% on each-other… in regard to economic data, inflation data along with retail sales both came in softer than expected (granted, data will likely be a bit noisy in the interim due to tariff effects filtering through), but as a result, we’ve continued to see indices slowly churn higher all week as the Q’s lead the way in regard to performance, +637bps on the week & on the flip-side, the Dow has been the worst performing of the indices although still currently sits up just over 268bps on the week (quite impressive action today considering UNH’s decline as well).
A few weeks back, we wrote about hard assets & the structural framework behind hard assets given recent events & future outlook along with some historical perspective as well… you can check it out below for those whom may have missed.
Hard Assets in an Era of Soft Money
As global central banks quietly rearm their stimulus arsenals and fiscal deficits spiral past the point of discipline, the foundations of the global monetary order are beginning to crack. Amid this shift, one question looms larger than ever: Are we on the verge of a new commodity supercycle?
Recently, we wrote about the recent developments out of Germany given the infrastructure plan that was announced earlier on in the week & covered the setup in detail along with potential beneficiaries & for those who would like to go & read, the article can be viewed here.
Lastly, we published the follow up educational piece which has been highly requested and majority of the topics covered were all suggested by you all, so I hope you find good benefit.
For those who may have missed, a link to Educational Piece Part: Deux can be found here.
For those who may have missed the first educational piece, I included the range of topics covered below along with a link to the piece for those who would like to go back and read:
- General background / knowledge on all option strategies
- In-depth talk on risk / reversals & how to go about expressing / utilizing them
- Options Structuring
- When to used naked calls / puts vs. spreads
- Choosing expiration dates
- Identifying key pivots / supports / resistance zones
- General briefing on stock gaps
- What to look for in regards to fundamentals
- Implementing fundamental / macro / technicals into a trade
- Hedging
- Creating risk/reward setups
- Taking profits / managing losses
- Overall Process
- Book recommendations
A link to the first educational write-up can be found here.