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One Month Later
Update On Our New Factor Each day the market’s open, Portfolio Armor gauges stock and options market sentiment to rank securities by its estimate of their potential returns over the next six months. In an email last month, I mentioned adding a new factor to that process. This was the first top names cohort to include the…
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Riding The Natural Gas Rollercoaster
(Originally published on July 16th, 2022) Natural Gas Climbs Back After crashing by about 25% at the end of last month, natural gas has regained momentum this month. In my personal account, I bought at-the-money puts on the ProShares UltraShort Bloomberg Natural Gas ETF (KOLD) when it hit $40, and then sold them (too soon) for a…
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Surviving An Ugly First Half
An Awful First Half For Stocks The first half of 2022 featured a perfect storm of headwinds for stocks: by January, inflation was at a 40-year high. Then came Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine in late February, and, following that, Western sanctions on Russia that exacerbated already-high inflation. Add to that the Fed raising interest…