Category Archives: The Markets

 I Sincerely Hope You Took Advantage of This!

By Graham Summers, MBA | Chief Market Strategist Two days ago, I wrote an article titled “Are the Markets Signaling a Peace Dividend?” Fast forward to today, and something of a cease fire is in place, though both Israel and … Continue reading

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Urgent Market Update: the Middle East

By Graham Summers, MBA | Chief Market Strategist Israel bombed Iran last night. This is a complicated situation and frankly no one (not even the President of the United States, apparently) has all the information. I make that last point … Continue reading

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China Taps Out! The Trade War is Paused… Will Stocks Hit New Highs or Roll Over and Crash?

The U.S. and China unveiled a preliminary trade deal on Monday unleashing RABID buying in the stock market. Is this trade deal and subsequent stock market rally legit… or is this all just a headline driven bunch of BS and … Continue reading

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Will You Profit From the Coming Market Meltup?

By Graham Summers, MBA | Chief Market Strategist As we keep stating, a trade deal is coming between the U.S. and China. This means THE lows are in for the markets. Over the weekend, China officials met with their U.S. … Continue reading

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President Trump Just Told Us What’s Coming… 

By Graham Summers, MBA | Chief Market Strategist The Trump administration just gave one of the most blatant “tells” in investing history. Yesterday, President Trump told investors to “buy stocks” because the U.S. economy was going to be like a … Continue reading

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It’s Confirmed, China and the U.S. Will Meet to Make a Deal

By Graham Summers, MBA | Chief Market Strategist China just “tapped out.” When the Trump administration launched its trade war on 4/2/25, the media teemed with analysis that this approach was a colossal mistake, that China, not the U.S. was … Continue reading

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Is the Stock Market About to Crash?

“Are the markets about to reverse course and crash?” This is the #1 question on investors’ minds today. The stock market has just staged one of its most spectacular “V-shaped” recoveries in history. And many investors are wondering if the … Continue reading

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Is the Fed Trying to Crash Stocks?

By Graham Summers, MBA | Chief Market Strategist The #1 mandate for the Fed is to maintain financial stability. That is literally the Fed’s job. It’s supposedly why the Fed was created in 1913. The stock market just experienced one … Continue reading

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Buckle Up, This Bull Market MIGHT Be Ending

By Graham Summers, MBA | Chief Market Strategist The markets are setting up for a big test. If they fail, we’re in for some REAL fireworks in stocks. I’ve been bullish on stocks for most of the last few weeks, … Continue reading

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Will DOGE Have an Impact on Your Portfolio? 

By Graham Summers, MBA | Chief Market Strategist By now you’ve no doubt heard that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is uncovering a truly jaw-dropping amount of fraud, waste, and abuse in the U.S. Federal Government. Some of the … Continue reading

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How Trump’s Negotiating Strategies Can Make You Money

By Graham Summers, MBA | Chief Market Strategist Thus far, the Trump tariff wars are following a negotiation framework that Trump has used throughout his career in commercial real estate. That pattern: Regarding #1, anchoring is a psychological phenomenon through … Continue reading

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Is THE Top in For Stocks?

By Graham Summers, MBA | Chief Market Strategist Editors note: Chief Market Strategist Graham Summers, MBA will be on the Schilling Show radio program today at 1:30 EST. You can listen in here. Everywhere I look, I see investors proclaiming … Continue reading

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You Can Use This Tool to Save Your Portfolio From a Crash

By Graham Summers, MBA | Chief Market Strategist Is the stock market about to crash? Everywhere I look on social media, the defining narrative is that the stock market is in a massive bubble that is about to burst, triggering … Continue reading

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Our Next Prediction For Stocks Is…

By Graham Summers, MBA | Chief Market Strategist The stock market is setting up to offer a buying opportunity in the next week or two. The S&P 500 hit a new all-time high last week. Every dip was bought as … Continue reading

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This is How Successful Investors Think About Stocks (And You Can Too).

By Graham Summers, MBA Stocks hit new all time highs last week. The reasoning here is quite simple: the economy is growing and the Fed has signaled it will start easing rates soon. This is something of a goldilocks scenario. … Continue reading

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The Second Wave of Inflation Has Arrived

By Graham Summers, MBA | Chief Market Strategist I warned time and again that the Fed was making a massive policy mistake that would unleash another round of inflation. By quick way of review, the Fed stopped raising interest rates … Continue reading

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Three Questions to Ask Any Guru Opining on the Situation in the Middle East

By Graham Summers, MBA War has broken out in the Middle East. As usual, everyone is attempting to have an “expert” take on this situation. The reality is that less than one in 10,000 of the people speaking on this … Continue reading

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Two Charts That Can Help You See What’s to Come For the Markets

By Graham Summers, MBA The market rally in 2023 has been driven by tech, specifically, Big Tech (Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Alphabet, etc.). While a handful of large companies have driven the stock market gains, the vast majority of stocks are … Continue reading

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Technical Setup: A Correction is Coming

Let’s set politics aside today and focus on the stock market. From a technical analysis perspective, the market has become extremely overstretched and is due for a correction. The S&P 500 is trading above its monthly Bollinger Bands to the upside (red … Continue reading

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Something BAD is About to Happen, and 99% of Investors Will Get Hurt By It

Things are beginning to get out of control in currency land. The $USD is collapsing. Astute chart readers will note that the $USD has already experienced two sharp drops in the last few months (blue rectangles in the chart below). … Continue reading

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