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Profit From Volatility With This Fund
The Direxion Daily S&P 500 High Beta Bear 3X Shares (NYSEARCA: HIBS) provides 3x daily inverse exposure to a beta-weighted index of the 100 highest-beta stocks in the S&P 500. HIBS is passively managed to select the top 100 stocks from the S&P 500 Index with the highest sensitivity to market movements (beta) over the past 12 months, while weighting each of them […]
A Retail Rout and Recession
Retail stocks are getting slammed, and the culprit is something that has Wall Street rightly concerned. On Wednesday morning, retail giant Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) reported a very ugly first-quarter earnings miss, as the company cited cost increases in areas such as freight and inventory for its very bad results. About halfway through the trading […]
The Cold Hard Truth About Bear Markets
I’ve come to set the record straight I’ve come to shine the light on you Let me introduce myself I’m the cold hard truth –George Jones, “The Cold Hard Truth” Country music legend George Jones is known for living a hard life, one replete with a lot of hard drinking, a lot of heartbreak and […]
Make Money When the Market Struggles with This ETF
Make Money When the Market Struggles with This ETF An ongoing theme in the markets lately has been the sound of doom and gloom. Be it geopolitical concerns, inflation or Fed moves, investors are seeing an increased need to run for cover. And technology stocks have been bearing the brunt of recent sell shocks. But […]
Seeking Solace in a Covered-Call ETF
As global uncertainty continues to thrive during the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, and inflation increasingly makes its economic effects known, investors have once again been impelled to find a source of refuge from the bulls that are bringing large sectors of this market down. One such sanctuary is to utilize a covered-call […]
My Five Favorite Quotes to Live By
When it comes to the wisdom required to get us through life and to help us navigate its inevitable turbulent swings, sometimes all we need is the power of a great quote. As a self-described “Renaissance Man,” I’m a big fan of finding wisdom about life from all sorts of disparate sources. That wisdom could […]