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The Fed Just Told You There Are No Rate Cuts Coming. Here’s How To Build Your Own.
How a Daily 0DTE Covered Call Strategy on the Nasdaq-100 Can Turn a Hawkish Fed and a Tech-Vol Spread Into a Daily Paycheck
8 hrs ago
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Michael A. Gayed, CFA
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The Dollar's Structural Bid Is Fading
The Index Has Recovered. The Buyers Underneath It Have Not.
Jul 8
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The Warsh Regime Meets Day 130
A Fed that refuses to guide runs headlong into a Hormuz supply shock, and the market must price both at once.
Jul 8
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Michael A. Gayed, CFA
201
The Emerging Market Rally Has a Selection Problem
Korea Is Doing the Work. China, India, and Indonesia Are Not Along for the Ride
Jul 8
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Michael A. Gayed, CFA
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What Credit Is Saying That Equity Isn't Hearing
The Headline Spread Looks Calm. The Plumbing Underneath It Does Not.
Jul 8
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Michael A. Gayed, CFA
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The Private Credit Machine Is Cracking Where No One Is Looking
Apollo's Q2 Redemption Requests Nearly Doubled Q1's. The KBRA Default Index Just Matched Its All-Time High. The Reckoning Everyone Called Six Months Ago…
Jul 7
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Michael A. Gayed, CFA
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The Quiet Unwind: EEM/XLK/Financials Reclaim Leadership, Defensive Extreme Fades, Fed Watch Looms
EEM/SPY +1.96% Leads; XLV/SPY -1.94% Worst Laggard; No Z-Scores Above |1.0|; JNK/GOVT Narrows +0.17%; FOMC Jul 29
Jul 7
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Michael A. Gayed, CFA
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Jobs Cracked, Yields Climbed, Credit Stayed Calm
What happens when the Fed loses its labor argument but the bond market refuses to celebrate?
Jul 6
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Michael A. Gayed, CFA
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Why I'm Sitting Down With Tuttle, Stansberry, and a Practicing Advisor on July 8
Forty years ago, Harry Browne wrote that an investor should not need to predict the next economic regime in order to survive it.
Jul 6
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Michael A. Gayed, CFA
219
The CLO Income Play That Doesn't Blow Up
How the Panagram BBB-B CLO ETF delivers a 7.5% yield with a floating-rate profile that thrives in a higher-for-longer world.
Jul 3
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A Record Quarter, a 40-Year Yen Low, and a Refuted Peace Trade: Q3 Has Begun
The dot plot beat the peace trade at T+7, exactly as titled. A record quarter and a 40-year yen low now set Q3 terms.
Jul 2
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Michael A. Gayed, CFA
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The Preferred Stock Trade Most Allocators Are Still Sleepwalking Past
Live today at 2:00 PM ET with Jay Hatfield, CEO of Infrastructure Capital — 40 minutes, live Q&A, 1 CFP CE credit approved
Jul 1
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Michael A. Gayed, CFA
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