Friday, November 28, 2025
I read constantly, especially before the market opens. My morning routine sends me down plenty of unexpected paths, and recently I was reading about how systems respond to stress. No matter where you look, the same pattern appears. Stress builds, peaks, and then fades. Nothing stays stretched forever. Markets behave the same way. Whenever fear […]
Fears that a lot of bad debt is lurking in the private lending sector have investors worried about results for business development companies (BDCs). The VanEck BDC Income ETF (BIZD) has fallen 17.5% over the last four months. Even with a double-digit yield, that level of loss is hard to watch. The business of a […]
From Gemini, Google’s AI assistant: “Embrace the suck” is a military phrase meaning to accept and endure unpleasant or difficult situations rather than fight them, often to build resilience and achieve a goal. It involves acknowledging that hardship is inevitable, leaning into discomfort, and finding a sense of purpose or pride in getting through it. […]
The 10 highest yield dividend stocks going ex-div this week. These are some of the top dividend stocks for this week.
People who have followed my work for some time know about Hetty Green. She was one of the greatest traders of the early twentieth century and, in my opinion, one of the most misunderstood figures in American financial history. If you have heard of her, you may recall her nickname, the Witch of Wall Street. […]
Investors were getting excellent returns from SFL Corp (SFL) from the end of 2020 through May 2024. Starting at that time, the shipping stock share values tumbled, and SFL followed suit. Then a dividend cut caused further price erosion. Can this stock turn things around for 2026? Here is the five-year SFL stock price chart […]
When I first started studying markets, I did what most people do: I opened a chart and added every familiar indicator I could find. RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands, stochastics… The classics. They were everywhere, and they felt like the roadmap to success. But the more I studied, the more I realized that everyone was following […]
The Fed’s rapid increase in interest rates, starting in 2022 at nearly zero and peaking at more than 5%t in 2023, was hard on the business success of Arbor Realty Trust (ABR), and for its investors. Arbor Realty Trust primarily provides financing for multi-family property investors. Loans on these types of property investments almost always […]
In the sometimes wild world of high-yield option strategy ETFs, probably no fund showed the crazy side more than the YieldMax Ultra Option Income Strategy ETF (ULTY). ULTY launched on February 28, 2024, with the intention of generating significant option premium income from some of the most volatile stocks in the market. The ETF has […]
Synopsis: Since March, my volatility indicator has consistently identified when fear fades and opportunity returns. Recent trades in one stock captured double-digit gains in days, not months. The system doesn’t predict—it reads behavior. When emotion resets, it finds the narrow window where volatility becomes opportunity again. Each week, I share how my volatility indicator works […]
