Good News is Bad News
When good news is bad news. What a dismal start to 2025. Last week, we were hoping the worst was over, but it wasn’t. After a good Monday, we were again slapped down mercilessly the rest of the week. Not fun. Conventional wisdom (i.e. the investing websites) attributed it to the economic data and how […]
Bad Santa
Bad Santa Rally. Well, Santa was not kind to us traders this year. In fact, he was quite horrid! We finished the Blog year on a high note, only to be cut down mercilessly in Christmas week. Two days after the blog was published there was the second biggest drop of the year! Not a […]
Merry Xmas & Happy New Year
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year to all my lovely readers! ITM Blog will be back on the 6th January 2025. Fingers crossed for a great year!
2024 Predictions
Wall St Fails! I really love looking back at predictions, as I usually get a good laugh at most of them. This year is no exception: Wall Street firms got it hopelessly wrong. Here are their predictions for the S&P 500 index at the end of 2024, made at the end of 2023. Yep, not […]
Capital Inflows
NYSE & Nasdaq Volumes. Last week I mentioned capital inflows to managed / mutual funds and the general rule is that capital inflow results in a rising market. Not being one to take anything for granted, I decided to check for myself to see if it was upheld by the data. Nasdaq Trading Volumes. Here […]
Income Strategies 3
The Wheel Option Strategy. I have chosen the image above as it illustrates the absurdity of not using something in the way it was designed to be used. The stock market is not an income-generating machine, although many people think that they can use it in that way. It may work for them for a […]
