Friday, November 14, 2025
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 […]
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 […]
Over the past few weeks, I have introduced my volatility-based indicator and explained how it measures fear and greed in the market, the two forces that drive price action. This week, I want to go a step further and show how that same indicator helps us stay steady when the crowd reacts to headlines. Every […]
The U.S. vs. China trade spat has quickly turned the U.S. market volatile. When President Trump announced potential retaliation on October 10 over rare earth metals, the Dow dropped by more than 1200 points. On Monday, the market recovered with a gain of 300 points. Then on Tuesday, October 14, the Dow was down 400 […]
Last week I wrote that in chaotic markets, prediction is fragile but process is durable. That idea had me looking back at how my proprietary indicator signal – called the ITV Indicator – performed during a well-known chaotic period, the 2008–2009 bear market. You probably remember 2009. Investors were terrified in the first few weeks […]
Markets remain chaotic. On the surface, they may look bullish. But beneath that, sentiment is split, and every day seems to bring a new headline that can push prices sharply higher or lower. We are living through what feels like an age of chaos, where news cycles move faster than fundamentals. History reminds us this […]
The latest move by ETF fund sponsors is the launch of funds that leverage the underlying assets and also employ an option-selling strategy to generate income for distributions. Single stock leveraged ETFs and covered call high-yield ETFs have been separate worlds. For the two types of ETFs, an investor can determine how one would perform […]
During my college days, I was a big fan of Blue Öyster Cult, including their song “Don’t Fear the Reaper.” For investors, the Reaper comes in the form of stock market bear markets. New subscribers to my newsletters often ask about tactics and strategies to avoid losing money in the next downturn. My response is […]
Historically, August and September have been among the most challenging months of the year for stock investors. While this year may buck the trend, it would be beneficial to have a plan in place if the stock market enters a correction before the end of September. Investopedia calls it the September Effect. The article notes […]
