Tag: Inflation
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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 […]
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