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11 Jun 2025

The Importance of Starting Your Investing Journey As Early As Possible

Source: Dividend Growth Investor

30 May 2025

The Evolution of Trading

Source: Barchart

26 May 2025

According to the aggregate strategic asset allocation of family offices published in the latest UBS Global Family Office Report, gold is NOT a crowded trade, far from it...

I don't see an allocation to bitcoin either by the way. file:///C:/Users/cmonchau/Downloads/global-family-office-report-desktop2025.pdf

21 May 2025

Why you need to invest, in one chart...

Source: Charlie Bilello

19 May 2025

Welcome to panic-driven buying!

Going into this week: * Hedge funds just hit 100th percentile gross leverage * Biggest 6-week positioning jump since 2020. * Net buying at +2.5 SD (largest since Dec ’21) * Put protection near multi-year lows * "Offers wanted" floods GS desk This isn’t cautious buying—it’s panic-driven chase mode. Source: The Market Ear

19 May 2025

Sometimes we need to be careful with magazine cover page.

Or use them as contrarian indicator?

16 May 2025

$1.2 Trillion of S&P 500 $SPX notional options exposure is set to expire on Friday with a max pain price currently sitting at 5,840

Source: Barchart

16 May 2025

Institutional investors have rarely been this BEARISH on the US Dollar:

Nearly 20% of fund managers, 174 fund managers with $458 billion in assets, surveyed by BofA said they are underweight the US Dollar, the most in 19 YEARS. Is the US Dollar heading even lower?

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