Juggling With Knives: Profits, protection and planning for volatility in stocks, bonds, real estate, and real life.
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Oil falls to lowest level in five months; Brent breaks below $60 a barrel
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China promises to cut taxes, increase spending to stimulate economy
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Ominous weakening today, September 6, below the surface in U.S. stocks
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This market’s volatility puzzle–it’s as if investors and traders don’t think risk is climbing in the general market
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Next earnings season test after Netflix? Microsoft
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I’m buying the Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF in my Perfect 5 Portfolio today
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Second quarter GDP forecasts start to come back to earth
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Here we go again: Argentina and Italy compete to see which can be the next Greece
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Nektar’s plunge is a buying opportunity–so I’m adding more to my Volatility Portfolio
What we know about Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR) is pretty clear. On Thursday of last week, August 8, trading in shares of Nektar were halted on news from the company had manufacturing problems that resulted in some patients enrolled in the clinical trials for the company’s NKTR-214 cancer drug receiving drugs that were less effective than the correctly manufactured drug. Two of the 22 batches of NKTR-214–Lots 2 and 5 to be precise–were less effective than the other 20 batches and patients given those batches did not respond as well in the trials as those patients who received the correctly formulated batches.
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Selling my Parsley Energy call options out of my Volatility Portfolio
Shares of Permian Basin oil shale producer Parsley Energy (PE) were up 16.45% as of 3 p.m. New York time this afternoon. The company reported second quarter earnings of 32 cents a share (after adjusting for a one-time tax-related gain). Unadjusted earnings came to 41 cents a share, down from 44 cents a share last year. The earnings matched Wall Street projections. Which is all it takes these days when everyone is afraid that low oil prices will send many/some/at least a few U.S. oil shale producers belly-up.
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Selling Pro Shares Short Treasury ETF out of my Volatility Portfolio
I bought this position in the Pro Shares Short 7-10 Year Treasury ETF (TBX) in my Volatility Portfolio on February 2, 2018, back in the days when it looked like the Federal Reserve was firmly locked into a policy of interest rate increases. An interest rate increase pushes down the prices of existing bonds with lower coupon yields–which would produce gains for an ETF like this short Treasury bonds. With the Fed’s reversal of policy course at the end of 2018 and with an interest rate cut almost certain at the Fed’s July 31 meeting, being short Treasuries no longer makes sense. I’ve been adding long Treasury ETFs since the beginning of June while looking for a time to exit this short ETF.
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Using softness to add more Treasury exposure to Volatility Portfolio
Treasury prices have been a little weak over the last two weeks. As a consequence the Vanguard Intermediate Term Treasury ETF (VGIT) and the Vanguard Short Term Treasury ETF (VGSH), for example, have dropped from highs on June 25 of $66.03 and $60.94, respectively, to $$65.56 and $60.75 at 3 .p.m New York time today. Not much of a slide but still an opportunity to add to or establish positions ahead of an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve at its July 31 and September 18 meetings
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Sangamo gets RMAT status for its hemophilia gene therapy
On July 5 Sangamo Therapeutics (SGMO) and partner Pfizer (PFE) announced update results of a Phase 1/2 study of Sangamo’s SB-525 gene therapy for severe hemophilia A. The companies also announced that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration had granted regenerative medicine advanced therapy (RMAT) designation to SB-525. RMAT status is given to therapies intended to treat, modify, reverse or cure a serious condition and to address an unmet medical need. The designation comes with all the benefits of FDA fast-track and breakthrough therapy designation programs and is designed to accelerate clinical and approval timelines for promising drug candidates.
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No. 2 Value and Volatility Portfolio Pick Constellation Brands up 4.73% today on earnings
On June 26 I added Constellation Brands (STZ), my No. 2 pick in my 5 Best Value Picks Special Report on my JubakAm.com subscription site to my Volatility Portfolio. Today, June 28, Constellation Brands closed 4.73% higher on final first quarter earnings.
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Adding Palo Alto Networks, #6 in my 10 Best Picks for the Rest of 2019 on JubakM.com, to my Jubak Picks and Volatility Portfolios tomorrow
Today I made Palo Alto Networks (PANW) the sixth pick in my Special Report 10 Best Picks for the Rest of 2019 on my JubakAM.com subscription site. Tomorrow, June 28, I’ll add these shares to my Jubak Picks Portfolio and my Volatility Portfolio with a target price of $260. The stock closed at $204.89 today, June 27. Catalysts to drive this shares of this cyber security company higher? Let me count them.
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Adding Call Options on Parsley Energy–No. 7 in my Best Picks for 2019–to my Volatility Portfolio today
Today I’m adding Parsley Energy (PE) January 17, 2020 Call Options with a strike of $20 (PE200117C00020000) to my Volatility Portfolio.
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$416 billion for seawalls in the United States by 2040–that’s a lot of gravel sales for Vulcan Materials
In the next 20 years spending on seawalls to protect communities could cost as much as the initial investment in the interstate highway system. Total spending to defend against rising ocean levels could run to $416 billion in the next 20 years, according to a report from the Center for Climate Integrity. Coming as it does just days after the Trump administration gutted the Obama administration’s regulations to reduce carbon emissions from power plants, the report raises a number of rather “interesting” questions.
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Adding Vanguard Short Term Treasury ETF to Picks Portfolio
Despite the challenging words from Fed chair Jerome Powell pledging that that he will serve his full term, I think it’s likely that the Trump White House sees the continued shift of the Federal Reserve from raising interest rates to neutral to a bias toward interest rate cuts in 2019 as a sign that the Federal Reserve is yielding to political pressure from President Donald Trump. My observation of this administration leads me to conclude that when Trump thinks he sees a weakness in his opponent, he ramps up the pressure. Winning re-election in 2020 depends to a large extent on the health of the U.S. economy, which increases the President’s motivation to press the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates in 2019.
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