The Money Runner
Now is a great time to talk about risk
http://youtu.be/M5Oaj0Zu3Sk Best time to talk about risk is when markets are pushing to highs. David talks to BNN anchor Frances Horodelski about tactical trading and world markets.
It’s Different This Time – The Movie
http://youtu.be/3QLxgPI1f-M David talks to BNN host Frances Horodelski about his recent Yahoo Finance Article and projections for the coming year
2015 Bull Market – It’s Different This Time
By David Nelson, CFA Every year, around this time strategists put together projections taking a bull or bear stance as the sound of the first opening bell rings in 2015. After a 6 year run, a PE multiple marching steadily higher, a wave of buybacks that can’t last and a Fed heading to the exit, […]
The Glass is Half ?
By David Nelson, CFA Alpha Select – October 2014 Update *Alpha Select – September +0.18% YTD +11.17% **S&P 500 – September +2.32% YTD +10.71% * Net of Fees ** Includes Dividends October tends to be a nervous period for investors. Anyone who’s been in the business long enough still remembers Black Monday in 1987 when […]
The Pendulum Shifts
By David Nelson, CFA It’s no secret that there’s been a raging debate inside the Fed. Hawks like Fed Governors Plosser and Fisher have been quite vocal in recent months taking every chance to voice their concerns that the Fed was falling behind the curve. In previous Fed releases it’s the hawks that have taken […]
The Holy Grail
By David Nelson, CFA The goal of market timing is obvious to all investors. Step out of the market when conditions become unfavorable and quickly buy back when the bottom is in. If you haven’t fallen off your chair laughing yet let me continue. Successful market timing is the Holy Grail and of course incredibly […]
The Fed Needs a Communications Czar!
By David Nelson, CFA In November of 2013 former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke made a speech describing his efforts over the last eight years to “make the Federal Reserve more transparent — and, in particular, to make monetary policy as transparent and open as reasonably possible.” The transparency he describes has morphed into a stream of consciousness narrative […]
Is the Small Cap Trade for Real? – CNBC
http://youtu.be/x_fAbPtJog8 Everyone is piling into the Small Cap vs Large Cap spread trade because of the huge underperformance this year. A look at a long term chart tells a different story.
