Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 19.8% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 16.2% Average Holding Period: 304 days Heading into the latest Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, in light of conflicting public messages conveyed by Fed officials, there was a lot of confusion… Read More

A sign that we live in different times: The Bank of Japan (BoJ) set a rate target of zero for the 10-year bonds, another unprecedented move for the central bank that has failed to lift Japan out of decades-long stagflation despite several years of massive monetary stimulus via money printing… Read More

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Market volatility has risen in recent days. Day-to-day swings have been large. Today marks the first trading session since last Thursday that the S&P 500 did not move at least 98 basis points. Confusing messages from top Fed officials helped to throw markets for a loop. Last… Read More

Today the S&P 500 had its worst day since the first trading day after the Brexit referendum. The President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Eric Rosengren warned that waiting too long to raise rates could cause the U.S. economy to overheat and risk financial stability. As someone who… Read More

As has often occurred in the “will they” or “won’t they”—the ongoing saga as regards the Fed’s interest rate policy—the economic data does not cooperate with the central bank’s desire to normalize rates. Less than one week after Fed Vice Chair Stanley Fischer stoked market worries that it may in… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 19.8% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 16.2% Average Holding Period: 304 days Last week Fed Vice Chair Stanley Fischer’s hawkish commentary, in which he stated that Fed Chair Janet Yellen’s keynote speech at Jackson Hole was consistent with… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 19.8% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 16.2% Average Holding Period: 304 days There was some excitement in the stock market today in reaction to the keynote speech by Fed Chair Janet Yellen and the speech followed by Vice… Read More