HedgeFolios Strategy Advisory
HedgeFolios Strategy Advisory
"Don't Fall for the 'Buy the Dip' Trap"
2-23-2021 Our Current View So far, the trillions of dollars in new stimulus from the Fed and the Treasury have done their job of keeping the stock market trudging higher. Vaccine mania and now the “reopening” narrative have added fuel to the fire, confirming our belief that markets would start the year off strong, as investors prepared for “life after COVID-19.” Read MoreHedgeFolios Strategy Advisory
"The Big Game-Changer for 2021"
1-11-2021 Our Current View: For many weeks, we had written in in our short-term trading services and in many issues of our Wellington Letter that political turmoil awaited the markets in January. Investors and traders piled into the markets over the past several days to price in the impact of the chaos in Washington D.C. and the now Democratic-majority Senate. Read MoreHedgeFolios Strategy Advisory
"Speculative Fever at Record Highs"
12-9-2020 Our Current View: November was superb for equities as all the major indices raced to new all-time highs. Powered by newfound vaccine optimism and the Fed’s now-quiet injection of billions of dollars into the financial system, inflows into stocks hit record highs as investors pulled out of safe havens, like bonds and gold. In fact, money has been flowing into some of the more speculative areas of the markets in droves. Read MoreHow A Big Hedge Fund Ace Lost 95%
One of the biggest hedge fund managers, Bill Ackman, considered to be one of brightest, lost over 95% in one of his largest positions, Valeant Pharmaceuticals (VRX).
He held the stock for about 3 years, while the stock plunged from $257 to $11 on March 14, 2017. On March 13, he declared he had sold his […]
THE ‘DEATH OF COAL’ WAS PREMATURE
President Obama promised in 2007 that his policies would “bankrupt the US coal industry.” This was one promise that was kept.
A study found the coal industry lost 50,000 jobs from 2008 to 2012. That’s a lot of misery for those families. Many leading coal companies went bankrupt.
Dohmen Capital presents the chart […]
RETAIL BULLS GET SLAUGHTERED
The bulls in the retail sector over the past year got another disappointment with weak sales during the holiday season. As we recently pointed out to our Dohmen Capital clients, Wall Street analysts were bullish on retail late last year, predicting that Christmas sales would be strong. The election results produced […]
HedgeFolios Strategy Advisory – Dec. 8, 2016
“Go with the Flow”
12-8-2016 An old saying in the markets is “go with the flow.” And this may be the time to follow that. After the close yesterday we wrote in our trading services for active traders, something which now also applies to active investors, such as members of HedgeFolios: Read MoreSAMSUNG CATCHES FIRE WHILE APPLE SALES DISAPPOINT
Apple may not have their phones burning up, but they have other problems, such as disappointing sales of the iPhone 7, so poor that for the first time, they didn’t even release first week sales.
At Dohmen Capital Research, we see that Apple’s US Mac sales are also plunging, down 13.2% from […]
IS THE INEVITABLE DEBT COLLAPSE PREDICTABLE?