China Shutdown Hits Tech Shares

David talks about sectors that are working in a challenged market

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When the COWZ come home!

By David Nelson, CFA CMT War in Ukraine continues to take its toll on equity prices and with-it investor sentiment. The missile strike hitting a Ukrainian military base near Poland a NATO ally adds to those concerns. If the conflict were to breach the border even through miscalculation it could trigger article 5 potentially putting […]

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Even in the specter of war there is opportunity

Last month we came within 100 S&P points of what I call fair value. Now we are trying to defend that support.

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Sanctions or Bullets

The market magnet is the mid-point between the dot.com bubble high valuation and the valuation low since, Do the math. $SPY $USO

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We are at War!

David Nelson, CFA CMT Fears of a coming Fed hike and rising cost of capital hardly seem a worry when Russian troops are firing on a nuclear plant and geopolitical tensions rival those of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Like it or not we are at war. The broad-based sanctions including the denial of Russia to access its […]

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The Cost of Freedom

By David Nelson, CFA CMT Half a world away freedom is dying tonight. Ukraine citizens represent what America used to be more than a half century ago. I guess the reckless shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Lviv was my breaking point forcing me into a Network Character Howard Beale moment screaming “I’m […]

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Blood & Oil

Every drop of Russian Oil helps pay for the invasion. The achilles heel of sanctions is that it takes too much time. What’s next for the ordinary Russian citizen. Last night on CTV News.

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The Nuclear Option

By David Nelson, CFA CMT Images of ordinary citizens taking up arms to defend their country as a full scale Russian invasion of the Ukraine unfolds, forces investors to focus on more than just market fundamentals and the health of the economy. Today we have to consider a sociopath with his finger on the nuclear trigger. As of […]

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