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.
October 29, 2020 | Daily JAM, RWM, Short Term, Volatility |
Yesterday, October 28, I posted that I would put off buying more downside protection against volatility in this nervous market for one more day. The plunge in stocks on Wednesday made downside protection more expensive--fear increases the demand for downside...
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 9, 2018 | Daily JAM, Videos |
JIM’S VIDEO: Most years the January Effect kicks in during December. This year it looks to me like the January Effect rally in Small caps started exceptionally early – on November 1.
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...
November 5, 2018 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Special Reports |
Scary market, huh? Completely unpredictable it seems, right? Up on Tuesday October 30 with the Standard & Poor's ahead 1.57% at the close and the technology-heavy NASDAQ Composite ahead 1.58%. Quite a turn about from the previous day when the S&P 500 finished...