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Buying Humiliation: Taking The Opposite Side Of Michael Hartnett’s Emerging Markets Trade Of 2023

October 10, 11:39 AM

Sell Hubris, Buy Humiliation As ZeroHedge has pointed out, Bank of America’s Michael Hartnett has been one of Wall Street’s most accurate analysts recently. Chart via ZeroHedge

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Two Ways Of Looking At Gold And Gold Miners–Why We’re Betting Against Gold Miners Now

By dpinsen@yahoo.com

October 6, 10:33 AM

Two Ways Of Thinking About Gold There are essentially two ways of viewing gold in the current market environment:

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Risk Bubbles To The Surface: From The Nord Stream Sabotage, To The Near-Lehman Moment In Britain, Risk Is On The Rise.

By dpinsen@yahoo.com

September 29, 11:23 AM

Market Bounces Despite Increasing Risks Despite the grim news this week, from the near-Lehman level crisis in Britain, to the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic,

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Second Quarter Earnings Are Worse Than They Look–How To See Beyond Deceptive Stats.

By dpinsen@yahoo.com

August 1, 1:33 PM

Beware of Deceptive Stats Sometimes, you've got to look beyond the rosy headline stats to get a clearer picture of what's happening pseudonymous macro account "MrBlonde" did just that in this Twitter thread on Sunday, showing that corporate earnings in the 2nd Quarter are actually worse than they look.

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Fading The Rip Higher: A Hedged Bet Against Technology Stocks After Tuesday’s Bounce

By dpinsen@yahoo.com

July 20, 4:54 PM

Not Buying The Bounce Stocks ripped higher Tuesday, despite all the familiar macro headwinds remaining in place: record inflation, rising interest rates, pending profit downgrades, the ongoing Ukraine War, plus added tensions with China.

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Off To A Good Start With Our New Security Selection Factor–Embracing The Power Of Mean Reversion

By dpinsen@yahoo.com

June 28, 5:58 PM

An Investing Note

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What Happens When Your Bitcoin Miner Drops By 80%? In this Case, You Beat The Market By 10%.

By dpinsen@yahoo.com

June 6, 11:58 AM

Levered Bets on Bitcoin Go Both Ways Good news for an underlying commodity tends to be even better news for companies that mine it, all else equal, thanks to their inherent operational leverage. Frank Holmes explained the concept using gold miners as an example, in an article a few years back:

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Market Rises Despite Increasing Tensions Between The U.S. And Russia And Spiking Food And Energy Costs: Time To Take Advantage Of The Bounce To Hedge.

By dpinsen@yahoo.com

March 28, 11:41 AM

War damage in Kiev (Алесь Усцінаў/Pexels).

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Why The Wheat ETF Spiked On Monday: A New Report Into How Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine, And The Resulting Sanctions, Could Lead To A Global Food Crisis.

By dpinsen@yahoo.com

March 22, 11:43 AM

Tymur Khakimov/Pexels The Impact Of War And Sanctions In a post earlier this month (Sanctioning Ourselves), I mentioned how our system's top names reflected the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent U.S.-led sanctions on Russia:

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The International Energy Agency Warns Of An Oil Supply Shock As 30% Of Russian Production Could Go Offline Soon. A Hedged Bet On Oil Going Higher.

By dpinsen@yahoo.com

March 18, 1:27 PM

Jan-Rune Smenes Reite/Pexels Ukraine Crisis Puts Upward Pressure On Oil