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Wild Wednesday – Trade In Doubt, Impeachment Begins, Powell Testifies and We Take Money Talk to The Street!

Where do I begin?    The Index Futures are down about 0.5% as Trump once again puts a Trade Deal into doubt.  Europe and Asia are down more like 1% so we might be just getting started or Trump could send out one of those " I was joking " tweets after he threatened China with more tariffs yesterday.  “ In the short term the market’s been too optimistic. The best interpretation of the trade situation is that almost everything that can be tariffed has been tariffed, ” said Christopher Mahon , director of asset allocation research at Barings .   How come when he says it on Nov 12th, he's quoted in the WSJ but when I've been saying it for two months – no one notices?  I have to get a better publicist – or A publicist….   Speaking of which, I guess I will have a better publicist as we move some of our Member Portfolios over to TheStreet.com starting with our Money Talk Portfolio , which kicks off this evening on BNN (Bloomberg Canada) at 7pm this evening .  Through the end of this quarter, the Money Talk tab usually found on PSW will ALSO be found on TheStreet but, over time, they will get the exclusive on that and a couple of other portfolios as well as some PSW content (also a subscription).    We closed the old Money Talk Portfolio after two years with a 148.1% gain on Sept 18th as I didn't trust the upcoming quarter enough to risk the gains.  Turned out I was premature in my worries (as I often am because I'm a worrier) but I'm still worried so we're going to start with a couple of conservative trade ideas and see how things go.  The rule of the Money Talk Portfolio is we only do trades we announce on the show, once each quarter so it's a very low-touch portfolio using our options strategies to hedge the risk and lever our returns.  When closing down the MTP, I did make the following suggestion for a good use of our $124,042 of cash : Our 2019 Stock of the Year is IBM (IBM) and …

Where do I begin?  

The Index Futures are down about 0.5% as Trump once again puts a Trade Deal into doubt.  Europe and Asia are down more like 1% so we might be just getting started or Trump could send out one of those "I was joking" tweets after he threatened China with more tariffs yesterday.  “In the short term the market’s been too optimistic. The best interpretation of the trade situation is that almost everything that can be tariffed has been tariffed,said Christopher Mahon, director of asset allocation research at Barings.  

How come when he says it on Nov 12th, he's quoted in the WSJ but when I've been saying it for two months – no one notices?  I have to get a better publicist – or A publicist….  

Speaking of which, I guess I will have a better publicist as we move some of our Member Portfolios over to TheStreet.com starting with our Money Talk Portfolio, which kicks off this evening on BNN (Bloomberg Canada) at 7pm this evening.  Through the end of this quarter, the Money Talk tab usually found on PSW will ALSO be found on TheStreet but, over time, they will get the exclusive on that and a couple of other portfolios as well as some PSW content (also a subscription).   

We closed the old Money Talk Portfolio after two years with a 148.1% gain on Sept 18th as I didn't trust the upcoming quarter enough to risk the gains.  Turned out I was premature in my worries (as I often am because I'm a worrier) but I'm still worried so we're going to start with a couple of conservative trade ideas and see how things go.  The rule of the Money Talk Portfolio is we only do trades we announce on the show, once each quarter so it's a very low-touch portfolio using our options strategies to hedge the risk and lever our returns. 

When closing down the MTP, I did make the following suggestion for a good use of our $124,042 of cash:

Our 2019 Stock of the Year is IBM (IBM) and


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