Friday, January 04, 2019 Thoughts on Powell: The Euphoria and the Risk Logging my thoughts as I listen to Powell this morning: Listening to Fed Chair Powell as I type. His commentary was everything the market Marty Mazorra CFP®, ChFC® Marty Mazorra Jan 04, 2019 · 6 min read Read More
Friday, January 04, 2019 On this morning’s jobs number, and what the market is really rallying on ahead of Powell’s comments… My initial thought when I saw this morning’s blowout jobs number (312k vs 176k expected) was, frankly, not positive with regard to the stock Marty Mazorra CFP®, ChFC® Marty Mazorra Jan 04, 2019 · 12 min read Read More
Friday, January 04, 2019 2018 Year-End Letter, Part 3: Sectors: Consumer Discretionary and Communication Services Consumer Discretionary: Take a look at the top 10 names in our core consumer discretionary sector ETF: Amazon Home Depot McDonald’s NIKE Booking Holdings Marty Mazorra CFP®, ChFC® Marty Mazorra Jan 04, 2019 · 16 min read Read More
Thursday, January 03, 2019 Could Be Another “W” (or of course worse) Before It’s All Said And Done… The last 5 trading days have seen a very nice bounce in stocks, and you could make a case for its legitimacy based on Marty Mazorra CFP®, ChFC® Marty Mazorra Jan 03, 2019 · 11 min read Read More
Thursday, January 03, 2019 Today’s Action A lot to unpack in today’s session. I pretty much cover the long and the short of it in the following bullet points: Apple’s Marty Mazorra CFP®, ChFC® Marty Mazorra Jan 03, 2019 · 14 min read Read More
Thursday, January 03, 2019 A Real Test of Recent Late-Day Sentiment! And Remember What I Said Monday… There’s this old Wall Street adage: “the amateurs trade the open, the pros trade the close.” Frankly, that’s never been one of my favorites; Marty Mazorra CFP®, ChFC® Marty Mazorra Jan 03, 2019 · 11 min read Read More
Wednesday, January 02, 2019 Headline of the Day While we can debate whether December’s action was a “stock market glitch”, the second part of the President’s statement makes perfect sense to me: Marty Mazorra CFP®, ChFC® Marty Mazorra Jan 02, 2019 · 2 min read Read More
Wednesday, January 02, 2019 Bonus Quote of the Day Yep (per my speculation in an earlier post), looks like the copper, and the Australian stock, rally this evening has to do with new Marty Mazorra CFP®, ChFC® Marty Mazorra Jan 02, 2019 · 4 min read Read More
Wednesday, January 02, 2019 Brief Note on This Morning’s Action Equity futures trading early last evening — strongly in the green — made sense to me; as the four last trading days saw buying Marty Mazorra CFP®, ChFC® Marty Mazorra Jan 02, 2019 · 11 min read Read More
Wednesday, January 02, 2019 2018 Year-End Letter, Part 3: Sectors: Technology I began making the case early in the year that tech is, generally, in a compromised place relative to the other cyclical sectors; industrials Marty Mazorra CFP®, ChFC® Marty Mazorra Jan 02, 2019 · 11 min read Read More