I can’t stop buying NIO (NYSE:NIO | NIO Price Prediction), and the Strait of Hormuz is the reason I keep clicking buy. When Iran shut Hormuz earlier this month, agreed to a two-week ceasefire,…
Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction) is everywhere right now because it just posted Q4 revenue of $68.13 billion, up 73.2% year-over-year, and Jensen Huang declared that “the agentic AI inflection point has arrived.”…
Here is the math that should anchor every conversation about GraniteShares 2x Long COIN Daily ETF (NASDAQ:CONL): Coinbase stock is down roughly 12% this year, and CONL is down roughly 40%. The fund promises…
Not all that glitter is gold, and it is a good time to sell the glitter and buy something better instead. ETFs like the Invesco KBW High Dividend Yield Financial ETF (NASDAQ:KBWD), Global X…
Brent crude started 2026 near $61 a barrel. Today it trades above $127 (spot price, not futures). That move did not happen because of demand growth or a supply agreement. It happened because the…
It’s quite obvious now that military stocks are not going to tumble significantly anytime soon. The forever wars will pause, only to be followed up with another conflict down the line, and the First…
The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:VOO) surged back over $650 quickly after the ceasefire went into effect and has held at that level after it was extended. The question now is whether or not it can…
The past two months have changed the calculus significantly for interest rate cuts this year, and we could even be looking at interest rate hikes. If that happens, monthly dividend ETFs like the iShares…
There’s an ETF that has been trouncing the S&P 500’s gains in the past year by an extremely large margin. The iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF (BATS:VLUE) has gained 64% in the past year,…
Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT | LMT Price Prediction) dominates financial media, riding a record backlog and climbing stock price. Every defense analyst touts it. Lockheed’s story is real, but it’s priced in. The stock has…
The bull case for Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL | AAPL Price Prediction) might be obvious, and I’ll admit upfront this is the boring pick. It’s the stock your uncle owns, the one that doesn’t get breathless…
Oil crossed $114 a barrel in early April 2026, a level not seen since 2022, and iShares Global Energy ETF (NYSEARCA:IXC) was up nearly 29% year-to-date by mid-April, collecting dividends from Riyadh to Rotterdam…
This AI rally has quickly turned into a data center rally, where sensible valuations are hard to find. The one glaring exception is Amphenol (NYSE:APH). Before discussing Amphenol, it's worth surveying what other "pick…
Treasury yields near 4% on intermediate maturities are the highest sustained income levels from government-backed securities in roughly two decades, and a fund that captures them at a cost of 0.03% per year deserves…
Software stocks have always been expensive, up until a few months ago. Stocks like Procore Technologies (NYSE:PCOR | PCOR Price Prediction), dLocal (NASDAQ:DLO), and Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU) have plunged significantly, and they’re not the only ones that have done…
A U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, active airstrikes alongside Israel since late February, and a fragile ceasefire that looks increasingly unstable: the 2026 Iran conflict has created exactly the kind of…
Fidelity Limited Term Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:FLTB) manages just $384 million in net assets, making it one of the smallest actively managed bond ETFs on the market. That obscurity has cost investors nothing in performance…
The global energy map has been redrawn in weeks. With the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed since late February and U.S.-Iran peace talks collapsing in Islamabad, American oil producers are the unexpected beneficiaries of…
The Strait of Hormuz carries more than a quarter of all seaborne oil trade on a normal day. When the conflict between the U.S., Israel, and Iran erupted on February 28, 2026, that corridor…
FFLG has returned 44% over the past year, beating both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 over the same stretch. That kind of outperformance from an actively managed fund with $521 million in assets…
