Community Chatter

If you could only use one indicator for the rest of your life, what would it be? How do you personally use it? JC Parets, All Star Charts: Price. It’s the only thing that we can count on as factual. And since we know that market returns are not random, but in fact asset price trend, […]

“It’s been a long year, and people are tired as hell. Rightfully so.” Man, I feel those words in my bones. How about you? We’re in the final stretch of 2022 with just a few weeks left in December. At Friday’s close, the market was sitting a little below 4,000, although it feels like we’ve

Q: Which sectors do you think have been impacted most by COVID-19? A: Hospitality took a heavy hit, and has yet to recover completely. Nowadays, hotels are about 75% back to pre-Covid-19 occupancy rates. At the high end, occupancy rates right now are running at about 70%, which is far below 2019 levels. Leisure travel

Q: What do you think is vexing investors most right now? Investors are rightfully confused. For starters, expectations for companies have changed. There used to be a stock market that wanted growth companies. Now, the market wants profitable companies. Technology companies had been penalized the most, because they were always instructed to grow; it was

Q: Tech and crypto are most susceptible to Fed quantitative easing. Why is this? A: Technology and crypto are growth stocks. When interest rates are rising, historically, growth stocks underperform.When interest rates are falling, growth stocks tend to outperform value. Growth stocks are looking for earnings some 10 years into the future. I’m not a