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PhilStockWorld April Portfolio Review
$1,967,325!    We're going to need 2 Dr. Evils soon to equal our paired Long and Short-Term Portfolios, which began with $500,000 + $100,000 back on October 1st of 2019 (seems like forever, doesn't... 
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Thrilling Thursday – Up and Up We Go!
Retail Sales are Up 10% . Isn't that exciting?  9.8% actually but close enough.  In a typical month, Retail Sales average $550Bn so up 10% is $55Bn and we only had to distribute $300Bn worth of... 
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Record-High Wednesday – Dow 33,600, S&P 4,140, Nasdaq 14,000
Bank earnings are good.    Well, Goldman Sachs (GS) and JP Morgan (JPM) are good, Wells Farge (WFC) – not so much.  And I'm not sure I'd call JPM "good" as $5.2Bn of the quarter's $14.3Bn in profit... 
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Troubling Tuesday – Another Shot Bites the Dust
Now the FDA and CDC are halting the JNJ vaccine . Like the AZN vaccine, blood clots seem to be the issue and, though they are rare side-effects, better safe than sorry – as long as we have two shots... 
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Mid-April Monday – Earnings Season Begins
GDP estimates are down 40%. They never should have been at 10% in the first place but we can take the Fed's complete inability to accurately predict what will happen in the economy as a given and just... 
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Fabulous Friday Finish
$95,615!   That's how much our Long-Term Portfolio has gained since our March 18th review and it's only April 9th!  We only had $634,785 worth of positions on the 18th and now they are $730,400 (the... 
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Faltering Thursday – 744,000 People Lost their Jobs last Week
744,000 !   That's AFTER another round of $1,400 checks went out AFTER passing another $2Tn Stimulus Bill and AFTER another round of Business Loans have been handed out specifically to help companies... 
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Which Way Wednesday – Fed Minutes and Fed Speak to Hold Us Up
What are they so afraid of?   Gravity, I guess, as the S&P 500 is at 4,063 and the Dow is at 33,333, Nasdaq 13,561 and Russell 2,256.  This isn't just high, this is insanely high.  14,000 on the Nasdaq... 
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No Top Tuesday – Is there Ever and End to this Rally?
Up and up we go . It's truly amazing that the Nasdaq has actually doubled off the March lows and it only fell 30% in March so we're up almost 50% from our pre-pandemic levels and was Trump really that... 
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Monday Market Momentum – Still Heading Higher?
Up and up we go. Of course Europe is closed on Easter Monday so it's a very low-volume affair and we'll have to see what sticks this week. We have a few early earnings reports but nothing... 
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Happy Easter/Passover!
Happy holiday! The markets are closed this morning but, for some reason, they are still releasing the Non-FarM Payroll Report, which is usually a market-mover.   IN PROGRESS     
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Thrilling Thursday – Learning to Love the Stimulus
Up and up we go . I have to tell you, Biden's " restrained " $2.3Tn (it gets bigger by the hour) Infrastructure Bill really hit the sweet spot for the US economy.  It's " only " about $300Bn a year but... 
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Want More Wednesday? How About Another $2,000,000,000,000?!?
MORE FREE MONEY!!! That's right, we've barely had time to spend our last $1,400 and already Biden is tossing another $2Tn onto the fire for "Infrastructure" but I have to agree with Fox on this one as... 
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Toppy Tuesday – S&P 3,950 Again
Commencing year number 59 . It was my Birthday yesterday so I've been contemplating stuff.  For one thing, if I had invested $1 per day in the stock market since the day I was born, today I would have... 
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Monday Market Movement – Archegos Liquidates
Well we had our first Financial Disaster this weekend . The Financial press is painting over it as we don't want to upset people at the end of the quarter but Archegos Capital Management had to (for... 
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TGIF – Working for the Weak End
We're down for the week. You wouldn't think so, listening to the pundits but we started the week at 3,916 on the S&P 500 ( /ES ) and this morning we're at 3,910.  Keep that in mind while you read your... 
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Faltering Thursday – Powell and Yellen Fought Reality and Reality Won
It was a nice try . As we discussed in Monday Morning's PSW Report (and if you want to know what's going to happen before it does – SUBSCRIBE HERE ) , Fed Chairman Powell spoke 3 times this week and... 
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Whipsaw Wednesday – Merkel and Oil Reverse Course
Reverse course! German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has apologized for calling for a lockdown in Germany over Easter after her people FREAKED OUT (Easter is a very big 4-day holiday there).  During a... 
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Turn Back Tuesday – Europe Goes Back on Lockdown
Gathering steam? “ The recovery has progressed more quickly than generally expected and looks to be strengthening ,” Powell said in prepared  testimony  to be delivered today to the House Financial... 
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Monday Market Movement
Powell, Powell, Powell ! You know the markets need a lift when they schedule Powell to speak but what kind of catastrophe are we trying to avoid when he's sceduled 3 days in a row?  As I've said, the... 
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TGIF – Stopping the Week before it Gets Worse
Wheeeee!    Yesterday was fun, wasn't it?  The Dow dropped 400 intra-day points – a 1.25% pullback as interest rates once again ticked higher – FREAKING investors out completely.  Clearly the Fed is... 
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Faltering Thursday – Powell Didn’t Promise Enough?
How much is enough? Yesterday, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell essentially said the Fed will continue their Free Money Policy until 2023, which seems like a long way away until you think about how far away... 
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Weakening Wednesday – Markets Turn Down Ahead of the Fed
Wheeeee, isn't this fun?   It sure is when you are prepared.  We added a bunch of hedges on Friday to our Short-Term Portfolio and the two short Russell Futures ( /RTY ) contracts we picked up in ... 
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33,000 Tuesday – Dow Reaches for the Stars
32,953. That's where the Dow closed last night after rallying from 32,500 at lunch.  Why?  We don't know – does it really matter anymore?  33,000 seems impressive but we were at 32,000 on Feb 25th (see... 
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Monday Market Momentum – Up the Down Escalator
Still going up – kind of. Sure we posted a record high on Friday, with the S&P closing at 3,943.34 but we hit 3,950.43 on Feb 16th (right after the holiday, when it was super-slow) but we were also... 
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Forward-Looking Friday – Are We Hedged Enough?
$1,862,265!    That's a gain of $95,674 since our February Review for our paired Long & Short-Term Portfolios.  Our LTP is predominantly bullish and the STP is where we keep our hedges – as they tend... 
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13,000 Thursday – Nasdaq in Critical Territory
13,146.    That's the 50-day moving average on the Nasdaq that we need to cross back over by tomorrow or it's likely the Nasdaq continues to correct back to the 200-day moving average at 11,721, which... 
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Which Way Wednesday – Bond Worries Continue as US Borrows $2.8Tn in 2021
Is there such a thing as too much?    Our Government, so far, is looking to sell $2.8Tn worth of Treasury debt to unsuspecting victims in 2021 and that's up 64% from $1.7Tn in last year's... 
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$2,000,000,000,000 Tuesday – Now What?
" Out of college, money spent See no future, pay no rent All the money's gone, nowhere to go " – Beatles  Well, we got our $1.9Tn – that should hold us over for a month or two, but then what?   ... 
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Microsoft Security Monday – Chinese Hack Wrecks Tech
We're under attack . At this very moment, a Chinese Government-backed hacking group has used Microsoft's EMail software to infect 60,000 Corporate Clients .  Yes, it sounds like the plot of a movie and... 
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