Stock Indices

I believe the SMART stocks should be cornerstones of a portfolio exposed to the rising digital economy we live in. An economy driven by data, digital payments, targeted advertising, streaming and new social interaction at your fingertips.

Stock market return fluctuations tend to cycle these 9 cycles collectively suggest the stock market should probably rise to all-time highs at least into late July but that the next three years could be horrid.

There is no doubt that America is smack-dab in the middle of a severe recession, unrivaled in magnitude in the past 80 years, yet, you wouldn't know it by looking at the stock market. How can this be? Why are equity markets rising in the teeth of the storm? 

The only asset class that will do well in the foreseeable future is precious metals, particularly gold. 

This article takes a look at how the current market crash compares with the market crashes of 1929, 1987, 2000, and 2008-2009 and how the economic backdrop of each crash differed to assess what conditions to look for in buying opportunities after this crash.

If the oil price is swinging lower then the stock market usually also soon starts to swing lower and that is exactly what happened to the stock market beginning in early January only to be further exacerbated by the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March. Talk about a perfect storm!

After the current counter-trend rally fizzles out and the primary bear market trend resumes, in the course of the next leg down, U.S. equity prices will collapse significantly below recent lows and establish a bottom somewhere between the range of approximately 1900 and 1500 on the S&P 500 index. In this article I explain why that is the case.

This article describes what led up to the stock market crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression:

I expect the current bear market cycle to trough between 1876 and 1464.

VIX calculates the implied volatility of options on the S&P 500 index for the next 30 calendar days. Below is some introductory material on the VIX offered up in a question and answer format.