I have taken some time off from writing for many good reasons. I have been working twice as hard these past two to three months to concentrate more time and energy on LakeView Asset Management and client accounts. The need to do more research and focus on opportunities in what is clearly the best growth […]
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My Gut Feeling For Today, May 4, 2020: May the Fourth Be With You
In my 36 years in this business, I have never experienced the type of tumultuous behavior in financial markets as we have undergone in March and April of 2020. I am expecting that May will bring some stability to markets; though it did not seem to start off that way on Friday. The unprecedented nature […]
My Gut Feeling For Today, April 15, 2020: Green Shoots Are Emerging
When winter turns to spring, we look for green shoots of plants and grass to emerge as a welcoming to the new season of growth. For financial markets when we have suffered an economic winter, we look for green shoots as a sign of return of growth. Such green shoots have emerged, yet there are […]
My Gut Feeling For Today, March 30, 2020: Suffering From Leptokurtosis
Financial markets around the globe are suffering from a bad case of leptokurtosis. This is not a viral disease but a statistical condition. Leptokurtosis is what is known as “fat-tailed” returns. Put another way, market returns are larger – both up and down – than under normal market conditions. Not only are closing returns much […]
My Gut Feeling For Today, March 13, 2020: Market Flu – FAQ For The Crisis
The markets have caught a flu of their own. While I have quarantined myself in front of my computer console battling the market’s woes, I have also had the opportunity to speak to many of you on an individual basis as to my opinion on the market decline. As a result, I want to conduct […]
My Gut Feeling For Today, March 9, 2020: The Kingdom Strikes Back
Let me begin by thanking all of you who read my last My Gut Feeling on Deconstructing the Correction as it was the most opened and most read My Gut Feeling of all time. Furthermore, thank you for sharing that commentary on social media and forwarding to friends and colleagues. It is going to be […]
My Gut Feeling For Today, March 6, 2020: Deconstructing the Correction
The entire process, from the time I begin to compose My Gut Feeling to when I send out that email which you receive, takes three to four hours. Since the equity markets began to cascade lower on Monday February 24, I set out to write My Gut Feeling on two occasions. Both times, I decided […]
My Gut Feeling For Today, February 6, 2020: We Have Our Bottom Answer
The big question last week was: “Was That THE Bottom?” The reason that I look for A Bottom and THE Bottom is that after a dramatic panic sell-off and rebound, sometimes a reversal of the rebound, or a retest of the panic low takes place. Hence, I had a two-factor method of determining if THE […]
My Gut Feeling For Today, January 31, 2020: Was That THE Bottom?
For all the market volatility and hysteria with the Kinahora virus, January has been a good month for the equity markets. I call it the Kinahora virus for a good reason. Kinahora in Yiddish means “not to cast the evil eye.” The Coronavirus certainly tried to cast the evil eye on society and the markets. […]
My Gut Feeling For January 27, 2020: It’s Ebola and SARS and MERS and Avian Flu and Swine Flu and Zika Panic All Over Again
It has been nearly six years since the Ebola scare in the fall of 2014. Recall that 1) early-mid October that year, we had a nasty panic driven sell-off in the markets and 2) we were all supposed to die from Ebola as it was destined to be the worst pandemic since the Black Plague. […]