Be in the know. 20 key reads for Sunday…

  1. This Smart Fishing Reel Messages Your Phone When You’ve Got a Bite (Maxim)
  2. Why Goldman Sachs Is So Bullish on Disney After the Fox Acquisition (24/7 Wall Street)
  3. Boeing to Decrease 737 Max Production Starting in April (TheStreet)
  4. ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update: WLI Bouncing Back (Advisor Perspectives)
  5. You Could Have Today. Instead You Choose Tomorrow (Medium)
  6. 5G is still just hype for AT&T and Verizon (The Verge)
  7. The “New Energy Economy”: An Exercise in Magical Thinking (Manhattan Institute)
  8. Episode 904: Joke Theft (NPR Planet Money)
  9. 5 of Albert Einstein’s favorite books (Big Think)
  10. The Austerity Chronicles (Kenneth Rogoff) (Project Syndicate)
  11. How to Get What You Want (The Irrelevant Investor)
  12. Elon Musk and Netflix Both Use This Ancient Mental Strategy and It’s Pure Genius (Inc)
  13. The stock is down 91% since August. But Maiden Holdings insiders just bought at $0.78. (Whale Wisdom)
  14. Ferrari P80/C – The Most Epic Supercar from the Maranello manufacturer (Luxuo)
  15. Driving the Porsche GT3 RS and GT2 RS, the New Quickest Production Cars (Popular Mechanics)
  16. Adam Sandler to Host ‘Saturday Night Live’ for the First Time (Variety)
  17. Risk Assets Have Front-Run Reality (w/ Tian Yang) | Expert View (RealVision)
  18. Wall Street prepares to profit off looming global credit crunch (New York Post)
  19. Here’s a presidential secret all stock investors need to know (USA Today)
  20. New NAFTA deal ‘in trouble’, bruised by elections, tariff rows (Reuters)

 

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Saturday…

  1. Low Volume At Highs Does Not Provide The Short-Term Bearish Edge It Once Did (QuantifiableEdges)
  2. Michael Lewis Discusses the Culture of Finance (Podcast) (Bloomberg)
  3. The Intersection: Crypto and Wall Street This Week ()
  4. The Only Thing Going Right for Tech Companies Is the Stock Market (Bloomberg)
  5. Hedge Funds Just Posted Their Best Quarter Since 2009 (Bloomberg)
  6. ‘Corporate America Had Better Take Note.’ Fund Managers Are the New Activist Investors (Barron’s)
  7. The Great Sriracha Battle Is Coming to America (Bloomberg)
  8. Traders are waging a nearly $1 billion bet against Lyft and still have lots of ‘dry powder’ (LYFT) (Business Insider)
  9. Big banks to report first quarter results with lowered expectations (Reuters)
  10. A Rare Peek into the World’s Most Valuable Company (Equities)
  11. Billionaire Hedge-Fund Manager Warns a “Revolution” Is Coming (Vanity Fair)
  12. “The Mice Became Smarter”: New Treatment Restores Aging Brains (Futurism)
  13. The Machines That Will Read Your Mind (Wall Street Journal)
  14. How Successful People Handle Toxic People (Forbes)
  15. The Bespoke Report — Second Quarter Chart Checkup (Bespoke)
  16. What is Amazon? (Zack’s notes)
  17. Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Ken Griffin, Dmitry Balyasny, Ray Dalio, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA), RumbleON Inc (RMBL), and More (Insider Monkey)
  18. This Fund Expects To Triple Its Money On GSE Preferred Shares (ValueWalk)
  19. When Will Gene Editing Help Humans? This Investor Says It’s Already Happening (Fortune)
  20. EIA Oil Inventory Analysis (EconMatters)

Be in the know. 7 key reads for Friday…

  1. US adds 196,000 jobs as unemployment rate remains lowest in decades (NY Post)
  2. Josh Brown: How I explain the stock market vs the economy (CNBC)
  3. Snapchat launches new gaming platform (USA Today)
  4. China Hails ‘New Consensus’ on Trade as Trump Talks Up Unfinished Deal (Bloomberg)
  5. Biotech crops among sticking points in U.S.-China trade deal: sources (Reuters)
  6. Hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio says capitalism is failing America, and we need to take 5 specific actions to save it (Business Insider)
  7. Intel downgraded by Wells Fargo on weak 2019 demand and increased AMD competition (CNBC)

Be in the know. 7 key reads for Thursday…

  1. German manufacturing orders collapsed in February (MarketWatch)
  2. What to Watch in Friday’s Jobs Report (Barron’s)
  3. Tesla Deliveries Fall, in Potential Sign of Weaker U.S. Demand (Bloomberg)
  4. Global stocks stall after Trump’s tariffs block US-China trade deal progress (Business Insider)
  5. Jamie Dimon’s annual letter is out (JP Morgan)
  6. Accounting Rule Maker FASB Rejects Proposal on Loan Losses (Wall Street Journal)
  7. Morgan Stanley downgrades trader favorite Micron to sell, says inventories will pressure margins (CNBC)

AAII Sentiment Results: NO MAN’S LAND – Part Quatre!

I focus on the AAII sentiment indicator when it is at true extremes.  This week, the bullish sentiment moved up marginally from  to 33% to 35%.  This is a neutral rating (not overly optimistic or at all pessimistic). I would look to see it closer to 40 before I considered getting aggressively short (and it would have to be confirmed by multiple other factors at that point).

The Bearish Percent creeped up to 28% from 27% which is still pretty complacent until we see a move to the high 30s/low 40s.  So while there is no euphoria on the side of the bulls, there is also very little fear and still a decent amount of complacency– hence NO MAN’S land part Quatre!

Here are the last few weeks of the “No Man’s Land” theme:

AAII Sentiment Results: NO MAN’S LAND – Part Trois!

 

 

Be in the know. 8 key reads for Wednesday…

  1. Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Ken Griffin, Keith Meister, Bodenholm Capital, AQR Capital, Anworth Mortgage Asset Corp. (ANH), Oasis Petroleum Inc. (OAS), and More (Insider Monkey)
  2. Weekly mortgage refinances spike 39% after huge rate drop (CNBC)
  3. Private payrolls add 129K in March vs. 173K est.: ADP/Moody’s Analytics (CNBC)
  4. Deutsche Bank downgrades Caterpillar ahead of negative backlog growth (TheFly)
  5. US Auto Sales Wrap Up Weak First Quarter (ZeroHedge)
  6. Boeing Keeps Leaving Trash In New Air Force Tankers; Deliveries Halted Again (Investor’s Business Daily)
  7. Bitcoin Rises 16%, Touching $5,000 in Asia ()
  8. If Trump closes Mexican border, avocados could cost more and auto factories could shut (USA Today)