The Wall of Worry pertains to investors always worrying as markets climb higher. So, what are some of the bull and bear cases on the markets, valuations, inflation, interest rates, stocks, and bonds? Jay Pestrichelli and Derek Moore join up again...
ZEGA decided to look at average annual returns for presidents going back nearly 100 years. Back to 1923 to be exact which would take us to President Coolidge’s term.
With the 3rd quarter coming to an end once again its time for a Buy & Hedge Retirement Strategy update focused on our peer comparison review. This is an opportunity to see how the strategy stacks up with a collection of others in the space.
Jay Pestrichelli co-hosts this episode with Derek where they discuss the continued talk around Robinhood Traders buying deep out of the money options to force market makers to buy stock.
Many of you might have noticed some adjustments within ZEGA’s Buy &Hedge Retirement Strategy during the past few weeks. The market was down 3.5% Thursday, but these adjustments were not the ZEGA trading team making a market call, rather this was part of a systematic approach where we periodically reduce some exposure.
As we can see the Fed has kept buying, albeit at a slower pace than we saw in the jump from May to June. The graph illustrates the values of those holdings across several exchange traded funds.