February 2, 2025 | BUD, Daily JAM, IWM, Jubak Picks, RWM, Volatility |
Stocks moved down slightly on Friday–with the Standard & Poor’s 500 off 0.50% and the NASDAQ Composite down 0.28%–as investors started to revise their belief that President Donald Trump wasn’t really serious about raising tariffs.
Now that the White House as made it clear that the first round of tariffs–on Canada, Mexico, and China–will go into effect on Tuesday, I think we’ll see more downward movement in stocks. I don’t expect the drop to be swift or especially severe to start. That will have to wait until the economy starts to register the effects of higher prices for so much that we import. But I’d like to get ahead of this revision in sentiment with some sells now.
July 16, 2024 | Daily JAM, IWM, Jubak Picks, Morning Briefing, RWM, Stock Alerts, Volatility |
The small-cap Russell 2000 index gained 1.90% yesterday, July 15. That beat the 0.28% gain for the Standard & Poor’s 500. And the 0.53% gain for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. And a 0.27% gain for the NASDAQ 100 index.And today, as of noon, New York time, the Russell 2000 is up another 2.25% versus a gain of just 0.30% for the S&P 500 and 1.21 for the Dow Industrials.The NASDAQ 100 is off o.20% All his continues the outperformance trend of last week that I wrote about in yesterday’s Saturday Night Quarterback post.
April 27, 2023 | Daily JAM, IWM, RWM, Short Term, Special Reports |
I’m expecting modestly positive economic news in the next few days. Which will, in my opinion, create a low-risk opportunity to make big gains by going short this market in order to profit as stock prices fall. I’m looking to put the first of those shorts in place right now. With the rest to go into place in the days after the Federal Reserve meets on Wednesday, May 3. In this Special Report, I’ll explain this perhaps initially counter-intuitive call on short-term market direction and give you the details on five of my favorite shorts for profiting in this market. With the first short pick today
March 23, 2021 | Daily JAM, IWM, Volatility |
Tomorrow, March 24, I’m going to add another hedge against a drop in stock prices, one that’s a more general market hedge against a more general market decline. The hedge is the September 17 Put Option (which goes up in price as the share price goes down) on the small cap Russell 2000 Index using the iShares MSCI Russell 2000 ETF.
December 20, 2018 | Daily JAM, IWM, Stock Alerts, Volatility |
Going into December, I thought there was enough chance of a strong end of the year rally/ January effect rally to make taking a risk on small company stocks a reasonable call. Even though the entire market looked shaky in the longer term. (That is in 2019.) With the...
November 6, 2018 | Daily JAM, IWM, Stock Alerts |
In my Special Report "How to Protect Our Portfolio Without Selling Your Portfolio" I made the iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) my third Portfolio Protection Pick. Today I'm adding it to my Jubak Picks portfolio. The idea here is pretty simple: To make some money in the...
