The American Dream is simple: A fruitful career, owning your own home, and eventually reaping the fruits of your labor with a financially secure retirement. Unfortunately, for most Americans, the ‘American Dream’ is turning into just that: A dream. And it’s all thanks to what I call the $30 Trillion Retirement Scam”, you may be […]
Trade of the Week: High Yield Bonds
The market continues to be ultra-volatile due to serious concerns over the global economy in the wake of the coronavirus. High yield bonds (aka junk bonds) tend to sell off during times of high stress as investors move to the safety of government bonds instead. This past week, someone bought a one-week put spread in […]
Pick Up These Three High-Yield Stocks While They’re Still on Sale
The spread of Coronavirus across the globe as led to a decimation of stock prices in the travel and vacation related stocks. With stock prices down so far, it is tempting to possibly pick up shares of an airline, cruise ship, or hotel stock. I caution against jumping in now and have an alternative idea. […]
Here’s How Gold Miners Continue to Be the Coronavirus Trade
The financial markets are in high volatility mode as the fears of the coronavirus and the ensuing actions by the government are driving huge price swings. We’ve gone from some of our biggest down days in history (in terms of points, not percentages) to one our biggest up days ever, to back down again. To […]
This May Be The Best Solar Stock to Buy Right Now
Thanks to the Selloff, Solar Stocks Are a Bargain After a long period of downplaying the impact, fears of the coronavirus finally landed in Wall Street. Last week was one of the most dramatic in recent Wall Street history. The S&P 500 went from an all-time high to more than a 10% loss in the […]
Fate Therapeutics Beats Earnings – Revenue Up 68% Year Over Year
Fate Therapeutics (FATE) just announced earnings March 3, 2020, with a beat on EPS and on revenue. The company’s GAAP EPS loss of 37 cents beat estimates by two cents. Revenue of $2.8 million beat estimates by $1.1 million, and was up 68.7% year over year. Related: Fate Therapeutics Reports Fourth Quarter 2019 Financial Results […]
Dump These Bond Funds Everyone Else Thinks Are Safe
The recent, short-term, stock market crash has led to a “flight to quality,” which means money running out of stocks and into safe investments such as U.S. Treasury notes. Demand for Treasuries lifts bond prices, which has the mathematical effect of pushing down yields. Over the last two weeks, the yield on the benchmark 10-year […]
Trade of the Week: Volatility
The market sold off sharply this week into correction territory on fears of the global impact of COVID-19. Options volumes were through the roof as expected as traders and investors rushed to get in and out of positions, including hedges. Volatility soared, with the VIX (S&P 500 volatility index) trading at 2-year highs. A popular […]
SolarEdge Technologies Quadruples Q4 2019 Net Income Over Q4 2018
Over the last trading session, shares of SolarEdge Technologies (SEDG) were slightly at $127.20 a share. Year over year, the stock is now up nearly 245%. That’s double the return of the Invesco Solar ETF (TAN). It also beats the S&P 500 return of 18%. SolarEdge Technologies, designs, develops, and sells direct current (DC) optimized inverter […]
Everything You Need to Know about Dividends
Investing in dividend paying stocks is a sure fire way of creating long-term wealth. Money will keep coming in every quarter and eventually your money will start growing exponentially due to compounding interest. Tim Plaehn is an expert at using dividends to achieve this and he wants to show you everything he’s learned. Note: any […]