You wouldn’t kick a real dog, but how about a robot dog? It’s not an actual living creature, so what’s the harm? Boston Dynamics, a market leader in robotics, routinely “Abuses” its animal-like creations in an effort to make them more...
Two items to discuss today: #1. Facebook. We rarely take victory laps at DataTrek, mostly because we adhere to the old trader’s aphorism that preaches humility: “Instead of yelling you should be selling.” The second half of that saying, by...
It may be harder to make money in US stocks compared to the last few years of low volatility and high returns, but there are still some benefits to a twitchier market. Even though we’re less than 90 trading days through 2018, US stocks certainly...
Check out CNBC’s latest article quoting DataTrek’s Nick Colas on the 2-year Treasury yield as an attractive risk-free alternative to stocks. Especially with increasing market volatility: “As much as every investor knows market...
The US dollar has strengthened recently, back to levels last seen in mid January 2018. Part of this move feels like a short squeeze, as selling dollars has been a fairly consensus trade this year. The balance, however, does have the ring of...
“We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.” That pithy dose of tough love comes from the Roman philosopher Seneca. It neatly summarizes one of the planks of Stoic philosophy, which basically...
