May 9, 2023 @ 10:50 pm | Breaking News |
There’s always the question of exactly how smart the smart money is, but I find these moves from big Wall Street names interesting as I look for any signs of cracks in the current consensus looking for a quick pivot to interest rate cuts from the Federal...
July 28, 2022 @ 7:57 pm | Breaking News |
My one-hundred-and-sixty-first YouTube video “Quick Pick First Majestic Silver” went up today. This hasn’t been a great year for precious metals hedges. However, allow me to make the case for First Majestic Silver (AG), given the coming recession and...
February 18, 2022 @ 7:57 pm | AA, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
Today I’m adding shares of Alcoa (AA) to my Jubak Picks Portfolio. At 3:10 p.m. today, February 18, the shares were up 2.01% on the day. My target price for the shares is $93. The pick is a short-term hedge against sanctions against Russia if the Ukraine/Russia...
February 18, 2022 @ 7:56 pm | Breaking News, COP, EQNR, Jubak Picks Portfolio, LNG, PXD |
If you believe as I do that one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s goals in igniting the current conflict in Ukraine was to attempt to use Europe’s dependency on Russia natural gas to drive a wedge among NATO members, the most recent developments make a...
February 4, 2022 @ 7:49 pm | Breaking News, COP, EQNR, Jubak Picks Portfolio, LNG, PXD |
On Thursday, Feburary 3, U.S. crude benchmark West Texas Intermediate rose above $90 a barrel–it closed at $90.87, up 0.60% for the day, for the first time since 2014. International benchmark Brent crude gained 0.42% to close at $91.53 a barrel. Of course, it...
November 5, 2021 @ 7:51 pm | Breaking News |
The dominoes keep tumbling and I think we’re now set up for one of those extremely volatile market melt ups through early January. First, on Wednesday, the Federal Reserve removed a big worry hanging over the stock market when it announced that it would begin...
August 17, 2021 @ 7:26 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, MGM, WH |
I try to use big up and (especially) down days in the stock market to stress test my portfolio. One of the things I look to learn from a high volatility down days is how the hedges that I’ve put on to protect my portfolio work under big stress. So, for example,...
May 19, 2021 @ 10:19 pm | Breaking News |
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. The twenty-fourth YouTube video “Three Hedges for a Falling Market” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. You can see it...
March 4, 2021 @ 7:20 pm | Breaking News |
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. The thirteenth YouTube video “2 Hedges for All Your Market Worries” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. You can see it...
March 4, 2021 @ 7:13 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
Call this making sure we’re all on the same page. Yesterday in my YouTube video and in my latest addition to my Special Report: “Profit and Protect” I added the U.S. Copper Fund ETF (CPER) and the Invesco KBW Bank ETF (KBWB) to my Perfect Five ETF...
November 12, 2020 @ 10:37 pm | Breaking News, Volatility, You May Have Missed |
The VIX, the CBOE S&P 500 Volatility Index, gained 11% today to close at 26.03. But the index, which measures how much investors and traders are wiling to pay in the options market to hedge risk on the Standard & Poor’s 500 index of stocks looking out...
September 25, 2020 @ 10:37 pm | Breaking News |
Today looks like a strong rally but I’ve got my doubts. At the close the Standard & Poor’s 500 was up 1.60%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was ahead 1.34%. The technology laden NASDAQ Composite was higher by 2.26%. The NASDAQ 100, dominated by the...
July 26, 2019 @ 7:52 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
Way back last Friday, July 19, in my Friday Trick or Trend post on my subscription JubakAM.com site, I argued for adding silver to a portfolio because 1) it is a good hedge for portfolios in the second half of 2019, and because 2) silver, after lagging gold for the...