Slop’n’Chop, pullbacks and opportunities

A few months back, before the April tariff crash (did people actually think 2025 Trump was going to be different than 2021 Trump?), I wrote a number of articles of how the US markets are

For the last 15 months, gold has been on a tear, with spot prices running up just north of 60% against the dollar since March 2024 and after moving out of a decade-long digestion starting

The S&P 500 has rallied 14.5% for twenty trading sessions, embedded within it one of the longest consecutive-day up-streaks since 2004. This advance, where popular indices have now fully retraced the losses triggered by the

If the bond market had a social life, it would be canceling brunch and texting, "We need to talk." Once the boring uncle of financial markets, bonds are now hosting more drama than some 'celebrities-on-a-yacht'

It should come as no surprise to anyone that with a war on European soil, instability in numerous European countries, and a monumental push towards defense spending and NATO rearmament, companies supplying towards these ends

It might be too early to draw any valid conclusions, yet it sure appears that the lopsidedness of this market advance is finally chafing at its undercarriage like a good mix of salt and wet sand in

Ah, Sweden. Beautiful country, beautiful people. Few people know that the flagship brand "Absolut Vodka" is actually Swedish, not Russian. With some days as short as six hours, alcohol can be a problem there. In

As discussed on numerous occasions before, the 2023/24 rally has been largely predicated on a lopsided rally of mega-cap tech stocks on the waves of generative AI, while the other market segments (specifically small growth)

As discussed previously, the 2023/24 market advance which was mostly predicated on extreme concentration and money selectivity towards the blue-chip glamour stocks of the day, is showing yet more signs of percolating weakness.A bull/bear ratio

Though we've seen a certain degree of broadening out in the market rally since the US elections, lately I can't help but spot some growing signs of exuberance appearing.For one, the bull/bear ratio of advisors

In the past few days we kept seeing multiple IPO's collapse under massive selling pressure. Looking at the stocks, this represents nothing overly critical to the market, owing to their small size & limited relevance

Last week was home to two major market events, both slated within the US - general elections and the latest FOMC meeting. As quickly turned out, Trump would win this historical race, while Fed chairman

This April, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stated that it is expecting a fiscal deficit of 7.1% for the US next year - monstrous numbers, outranking other first world economies by a factor of 3.

When markets rally despite a broad overhang of negative news and outlook, they are said to be 'climbing a wall of worry'. Indeed this happens rather frequently, more recently and prominently post the Feb-April 2020

The last few weeks have witnessed a hardly-precedented move in micro-, small- and mid-cap indices, but specifically small- and microcaps. A look at the SP400 (MDY, MidCap ETF), the Russell-2000 (RUT, SmallCaps) or the IWC

Wherever you encounter leadership in life, the behaviour of the leader will to a large degree shape the success and future of whatever undertaking they're leading - whether that's a family, a business, a project,