Broken Pie Chart

By Derek Moore

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The Broken Pie Chart Podcast offers fresh looks at investment portfolio management, economics, markets, retirement planning, and more by simplifying and explaining important aspects of financial markets and the economy in easy to understand ways.

Episode Date
Can't Be a Bubble Without? | Contrarian Signal Consumer Sentiment Hits a Low | Gold vs Stocks | Earnings Guidance Rises
Dec 08, 2025
Small Caps Telling Us Rate Cuts | It's Not Just the Mag 7 Near All-Time Highs | Fear & Greed Index Disconnect | HOPE Economic Sequence
Dec 04, 2025
Nvidia Saves the Market? | Fed Cut Whisperers | MSCI to Dump Strategy? | Sentiment vs the Market
Nov 23, 2025
OpenAI IPO | Michael Saylor's Strategy's Bitcoin Strategy Reframed | Michael Burry on Mag 7 Earnings Quality | NVDA Earnings Options Volatility
Nov 17, 2025
S&P 500 Stocks Dispersion | Small Caps Outflows | NVDA Implied Volatility | Market Re-Rating Forward PE Ratio
Nov 10, 2025
Hindenburg Omen | MicroStrategy vs Bitcoin | CAPE Ratio and Forward Returns | No More Tariff Tantrum?
Nov 03, 2025
AAPL MSFT META GOOG Earnings Volatility | 5% Mortgage Rates Coming? | No Inflation Despite Tariffs | 7000 Up Next for S&P 500 Index?
Oct 27, 2025
VIX Too High? | SCOTUS Tariff Decision Looming | TSLA vs INTC Implied Volatility | Regional Bank Trouble?
Oct 20, 2025
Tariff Tumble | Historical Anomaly Gold vs Oil | Buying Opportunity or Continuation of Weakness? | Volatility Ahead of SCOTUS Tariff Hearing
Oct 13, 2025
Are We in a Bubble? | Top 10 Companies by Decade | Gold Historic Return YTD | Performance During Government Shutdowns
Oct 06, 2025
Odds of Government Shutdowns | GDP Surprises to Upside | Volatility of Single Stocks vs the Index | New Pattern Day Trade Rules | Worst Stocks
Sep 29, 2025
Nick Magguilli NY Times Best Selling Author on the Wealth Ladder | The Fed Cuts So Now What?
Sep 22, 2025
Would A Fed Rate Cut Matter? | Employment Revised Lower | Gold Reaches ATH | Inflation Expectations Drop | Largest 1-Day Single Stock Moves Higher
Sep 16, 2025
Recession Indicators | Gold Oil Ratio | Fed Cut Probabilities Jump | Net Profit Margins By Decade
Sep 07, 2025
Is Nvidia Getting Cheaper? | No Inflation | New Entrants to S&P 500 Index | Flows Into Ethereum ETFs
Aug 31, 2025
Fed Gets Dovish? | Post Election Year Cycle | Option Vanna Rally? | In the End its Earnings
Aug 25, 2025
MSTR vs Bitcoin (IBIT) | VIX Seasonality | No Tarif Inflation Yet | Stock Buyback Seasonality | Confusing PPI Report
Aug 18, 2025
Comparing Bull Markets | Employment Revisions | Nvidia Options Implied Moves | Wall Street Targets Get Bullish
Aug 10, 2025
Can You Really Retire on High Dividend Paying ETFs? |What Investors Get Wrong on Premium Selling High Dividend ETFs and Income | Are Assets More Correlated Today? | Index Weighting Concentration Over the Years
Aug 04, 2025
Opendoor Meme Stock Mania Gamma Squeeze? | Bull Market Has Legs? | FOMC Fed Dissents Coming? | Options and Mag 7 Earnings
Jul 27, 2025
Powell vs. Trump | Crazy Inflation Survey Expectations | US Stocks Overseas Revenue | Options and Tesla Earnings
Jul 21, 2025
Does the Debt Matter? | Market Myth Busting | International Stocks Overbought? | Tax Rates Don't Matter?
Jul 13, 2025
Fallacy of Dollar Losing 90% of Value | Buy at All-Time Highs? | Gold Is More Volatile Than You Think | Fastest New High Post Bear Market Ever
Jul 07, 2025
Hated All-Time Highs | Semis Gone Wild | Does Apple Buy Perplexity? | Inflation Adjusted Oil Prices
Jun 29, 2025
60/40 Portfolio vs Hedged Equity | CNBC Markets in Turmoil | Tired Fed Interest Rate Debate
Jun 23, 2025
Geopolitical Risk | Most Volatile Decade? |Housing Is Cheap? | Gold & Oil Get a Bid
Jun 16, 2025
6000 Baby! | Market Breadth Narrows| Rolling 10 Year S&P 500 Returns | Tesla Elon vs. Trump
Jun 09, 2025
Wrong on Inflation | NVDA Earnings | PCE Inflation vs CPI Inflation | Sell in May Didn't Work
Jun 02, 2025
Bond Yield Problem? | NVidia Options Implied Volatility | US Dollar Falls | Did 60/40 Save Investors Last 5 Years?
May 25, 2025
Moodys Downgrades US Debt | Intra Year Drawdowns Are Common | S&P 500 Profit Margins Strong | Consumer Confidence Contrarian Indicator
May 19, 2025
MicroStrategy (MSTR) Joining S&P 500 Index? | S&P 500 Index Turnover Matters | Fed Does Nothing, but Should They Have? | Inflation Nowcast
May 12, 2025
Barons Contrarian Cover | Negative GDP Details | Fed Rate Cuts? | Unemployment Was Fine | Sell in May? | S&P 500 After Near Bear Markets 1-Year Later
May 04, 2025
Is The Bottom In? | Now They Change Their S&P 500 Targets | Apple Earnings Implied Volatility Expected Move |
Apr 27, 2025
Economic Forecast Crowding | Gold ATH | High Yield Spreads Not Recession Levels | Flight to Quality Trades Not Working | No the VIX Is Not Predicting Actual Moves Still
Apr 21, 2025
Market Bottom? | VIX Should Be 100 | Bond Market Yields Spike | Bitcoin and S&P 500 10 Day Volatility is Equal Wow!
Apr 13, 2025
Sell Sell Sell | Tariffs | Nasdaq in Bear Market Territory | Buying Opportunity?| Don't Make Emotional Decisions
Apr 05, 2025
Back in Correction? | Recession? | Atlanta FED GDP Now | S&P 500 Index Year End Target Update | Useless Fed Dot Plots | 1 YR Stock Market Expectations Plummet | Implied Volatility
Mar 31, 2025
Intra Year Drawdowns | LEI Leading Economic Indicator | VIX Index to Be Normal Soon? | Useless Fed Dot Plots
Mar 24, 2025
Max Bearishness at a Bottom? | VIX Curve Inversion | Nvidia Rallies | Dollar Problem Solved? | Fear and Greed Index | Consumer Sentiment Indicator is Worthless
Mar 16, 2025
Market Correction Turmoil | Don't Panic | VIX Spikes | 3 Fed Cuts? | Atlanta Fed GDP Now Collapses | Tariffs | Listener Emails
Mar 10, 2025
Investors Get Bearish |Nvidia Earnings | Implied Volatility Broadcom | Effective Tariff Increase | Mag 7 Correction
Mar 03, 2025
Higher Jan & Feb Means Bull Continues? | Broadening Market Outside Mag 7 | Profit Margins Rising | International Outperforming | Nvidia Options & Earnings
Feb 24, 2025
Bond Rates Staying Higher | Forward PE Multiples | Implied Volatility During Earnings | Nominal GDP vs 10 Year Yield
Feb 17, 2025
Unemployment | MicroStrategy Volatility Too Low? | Tariffs Are Fine for Markets? | Inflation Expectations Shoot Up
Feb 10, 2025
Tariffs | Market Fragility | Mortgage Rate Spread to Treasuries | Analysts Estimates Are Pretty Accurate
Feb 03, 2025
Downside Protection is for Suckers? | Big Earnings Week | Percent of Time in Recessions | Bacon Egg & Cheese Inflation Index | Implied Volatility & Earnings
Jan 27, 2025
Bitcoin Can't Be This Easy? | S&P 500 Concentration Doesn't Matter | Company Additions to S&P Performance | Implied Volatility Options Netflix Pre-Earnings
Jan 20, 2025
It Matters When It Matters | Employment Too Good? | Interest Rate Problem? | Dollar Problem? | Earnings Still Good? | AI The 6th Great Innovation?
Jan 13, 2025
Market Pullbacks Data | Yields Keep Rising? | Forward EPS vs PE Ratio | MicroStrategy Implied Volatility | 1 Fed Cut in 2025?
Jan 06, 2025
2025 Predictions | Un-Inverted Curve | China Deflation Tariff Solution?| Bitcoin Quantum Problem?
Dec 30, 2024
VIX Spikes as Market Has Tantrum | Fed Hawkish Cut| Inflation Not Getting to 2% | Dollar Index Breaks Out
Dec 23, 2024
S&P 500 7000 By Year End 2025? | Multiples vs Earnings Growth | Inflation Still Too High? | Probabilities Calculated Using Options | Fair Share on Taxes?
Dec 16, 2024
Hawk Tuah Crypto Scam? | United Healthcare CEO Single Stock Risk| Unemployment Breakdown | +29% S&P Years More Common| MicroStrategy vs. Bitcoin
Dec 09, 2024
Markets Getting Overvalued? | MicroStrategy Convertible Bonds| 1st Year Presidential Cycle | 2025 Year End S&P 500 Targets Lazy?| MicroStrategy Option Volatility
Dec 02, 2024
Nvidia Gets Cheaper?|Buying Bitcoin vs Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy | Dominos vs. Google | Historical Post Election Markets | Morgan Stanley Says 6500 SPX in 25'
Nov 25, 2024
MicroStrategy Market Cap vs Bitcoin | Valuations Getting Frothy ? | Yields vs Fed Cuts | Second Inflation Surge? | US Dollar Problem | Nvidia Options
Nov 18, 2024
S&P 500 6000 | Bitcoin Strategic Reserve? | Why Bond Yields May Go Higher | Fed Rate Cuts Near All-Time Highs Bullish?
Nov 11, 2024
Unemployment Bad News? | Markets After Elections | Earnings Beats | Trump vs. Harris Election Analysis
Nov 03, 2024
Goldman Makes News With 3% S&P Target | Markets Too Concentrated? | What If Mortgage Rates Don't Fall? | Gold Returns Examined
Oct 27, 2024
Small Caps Get Their Day | Buffett's Apple Blunder? | Bull Market Length | Nvidia Cisco Comparison | Netflix Options Volatility
Oct 21, 2024
Where Markets Go After All-Time Highs by VIX Level | Crazy Earnings Estimates | CPI is Rarely 2% | Latest Interest Rate Probabilities
Oct 14, 2024
VIX Too High at All-Time Market Highs? | Employment Surprises | Interest Rate Cut Expectations Drop| No More Port Strike | Technical Analysis on Markets
Oct 06, 2024
S&P 500 Going to 7000? | NAV Erosion Myth | Fed HAS Cut Rates at All-Time Highs| China & Emerging Markets Surge | Answering Audience Questions
Sep 29, 2024
Fed Goes Big | Market Performance After Rate Cuts | Election Volatility in VIX Futures Is a Crowded Trade | Year End S&P 500 Predictions
Sep 22, 2024
Fed Decision Primer | CPI Disappoints? | Market Breakout or Breakdown? | Market Pricing in Too Many Cuts?
Sep 15, 2024
Will There or Won't There Be a Recession? | Size of First Fed Rate Cut?| Stocks Get Cheaper | Why VIX is Tough to Trade
Sep 09, 2024
All the News is Out? |Nvidia Earnings Breakdown | Implied Volatility and Earnings for Nvidia | Is the Long Bond Trade Getting Crowded?
Aug 31, 2024
Jay Powell & The "Good Ship Transitory" | Price Caps Proposed by Politicians | Huge Employment Revisions | US Dollar Breaking Down?
Aug 25, 2024
Fastest Correction Ever? | VIX Index Collapse Post Spike| Will Fed Push Back on 50 bps Interest Rate Cut? | Latest CPI Inflation Analysis and Soft, Hard, or No Landing?
Aug 18, 2024
Panic Overdone? | VIX 3rd Highest Spike Ever | How the Strategies Held Up | Short Volatility Trades
Aug 09, 2024
Market Volatility | Yen Carry Trade Unwind to Blame? | High Yield Holds Up
Aug 04, 2024
Is Trump or Harris Better for the Stock Market? |Answering Options Questions | Why Do People Sell Covered Calls?
Jul 29, 2024
Mag 7 Pauses| Everything Else Takes Its Turn | VIX Seasonality | High Yield Spread
Jul 21, 2024
Market Returns After 1st Rate Cut? | AI Revolution Like 1990s Internet? | What If They're Wrong on Rates?
Jul 15, 2024
Economy Weaking? | What Makes Markets Go Up or Down? | Tesla Goes Up and Option Volatility Up | Economic Surprise Index
Jul 07, 2024
Is Nvidia in a Bubble? | Don't Give Up on the Bull Market Yet? | French Election Implied Volatility | Shipping Containers
Jun 30, 2024
Volatility Problem | Probability S&P 500 Goes Up or Down 9.8% | Cracks in Economy? | Earnings Estimates Rise
Jun 23, 2024
Market Crash? | Fed Meeting Dot Plots | Inflation Break | Apple's AI Breakout |
Jun 14, 2024
GameStop Option Bets | S&P Too Top Heavy? | Nvidia Passes Apple | Upcoming Banking Problems from Mortgages?
Jun 09, 2024
Crazy VIX Bets Due to Election? | Market Reversal | Home Ownership Affordability Today | Shiller PE
Jun 02, 2024
Nvidia Earnings Recap | Get Over It Rates are Staying Higher | Despite Rates Home Prices Up YoY | AI Mentions in Earnings Calls | What VVIX and VIX Did
May 27, 2024
GameStop Options Activity Prior to Roaring Kitty Reemergence | S&P 500 Makes New High | 90% of the Time No Recession or Stagflation | When Covered Calls Get Called Away Early
May 19, 2024
Goldilocks Stock Market and What Could Derail It? | Interest Rates Aren't Historically High | Cheap to Hedge the Downside Now with Options
May 12, 2024
Reinvesting High Dividends Deep Dive | Unemployment & the Fed | Option Time Value Explained | Shareholder Yield
May 05, 2024
Now Its 1 Fed Rate Cut? | Nvidia Options Volatility Implied Move at Earnings | Sell in May and Go Away in Election Years? | Inflation Higher Than 1970s?
Apr 28, 2024
Market Correction | Mortgage Rates Higher | No Thanks 24-Hour Trading | Synthetic Options
Apr 21, 2024
Market Selloff | No Rate Cuts? | Bitcoin vs Gold | CPI Inflation Sticky | VIX Curve
Apr 14, 2024
Buying At All-time Highs Better? | S&P 500 Returns After Last Hike | Developed International Beats the S&P | How To Tell Whether Options Are Expensive
Apr 08, 2024
Most Record Highs Since 2013 | The Fed No Rush to Cut? | VVIX and VIX Super Quiet | Value vs Growth | Cocoa More Valuable than Gold?
Mar 31, 2024
The Fed Gets Bullish? | Markets Don't Go Down Just Because They Go Up | Yield Curve Inversion Record | Bitcoin Halving
Mar 24, 2024
Michael Saylor is Right on Bitcoin? |Worst Crash Since 1929 Coming? | Semiconductors Get Big Flows | 0 DTE Option Stats
Mar 17, 2024
Worst Market Timing Ever? | Options Cost of Carry | Option Put Call Parity | Unemployment Bad News Is Bad News?
Mar 11, 2024
Why VIX Is Hard to Trade | SuperCore PCE High Again?| High Yield Bond Spreads | The Fed Is Not Cutting? | Semiconductors Surging (Again)
Mar 03, 2024
Nvidia To the Moon | Implied Volatility and Earnings | Earnings and Markets Have Low Correlations? | Nvidia Cheap?
Feb 25, 2024
Put & Call Implied Volatility Mismatch? | US Dollar vs S&P 500 Correlation | Sticky Inflation | Japan Recession | Explaining Why Stocks Go Up (or down)
Feb 19, 2024
Is the Forward PE Useless?| S&P 500 Election Seasonality | Gen Z vs. Gen X Special
Feb 11, 2024
Too Focused on Fed Rates?| META Earnings Implied Volatility | NAV Erosion Myth
Feb 04, 2024
Explaining Telsa Implied Volatility | Bitcoin Selloff Post Spot ETF | What History Tells Us About Election Year Returns
Jan 28, 2024
What Option Volatility Means for Markets | Is the Market Too Dovish on Interest Rate Expectations? | Does the Fed Need an Economics Lesson?
Jan 21, 2024
Bitcoin ETF Sell the News? | Expect Stock Market Corrections | Value vs. Growth | Travel Inflation Cooling?
Jan 14, 2024
Hedging With Options Examples | Soft Landing? | US Congress Trading Returns | Is Good News or Bad News Good?
Jan 08, 2024
2024 Predictions | Late Year Rally Bullish? | What if Investors Are Expecting Too Many Rate Cuts?
Jan 01, 2024
0 DTE Options to Blame for Selloff? | 2024 Targets for S&P 500 Index | Fed Dot Plots Always Wrong?
Dec 23, 2023
Everyone Betting on Rate Cuts | Blackrock Buying 44% of Homes? | Record Call Option Volume & VVIX and VIX Out of Synch?
Dec 17, 2023
S&P 500 Targets | VIX Index Largest 7-Week declines | Simplifying Synthetic Long Stock with Covered Calls | Labor Force Participation
Dec 11, 2023
VIX Index Goes Nowhere | Cheap Puts to Hedge? |Cheaper to Rent Than Buy? | Markets During Presidential Election Years
Dec 03, 2023
Dave Ramsey Wrong? | Huge VIX Options Bets | S&P 500 Seasonality | When Does Government Debt Become a Problem?
Nov 26, 2023
Probability of Recession? | Explaining How US Treasury Bond Auctions Work | S&P 500 Index Member Changes | Option Premium Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic
Nov 20, 2023
Stock Market Returns After First Rate Cut | Yield Curve Preceding Recessions | Investors Rooting for the Wrong Thing
Nov 12, 2023
Option Selling ETFs Boom | Probability of Future Fed Moves | Bad News is Good News on Employment
Nov 05, 2023
Correction Territory | No Fear Yet in Markets? | When Does Capitulation Happen in Markets?
Oct 29, 2023
Powell vs. Bond Traders | Option Volatility During Earnings | Mortgage Rate Spread to Treasuries
Oct 22, 2023
Deep Dive: Can Bonds Recover? | TLT ETF Breakdown |Inflation and the Fed
Oct 15, 2023
Bond Market Collapse | Oil Price Problems? | Bond Stock Correlations
Oct 09, 2023
Government Shutdowns & Markets | Short ITM Puts Alternative to Covered Calls | Why Hedging Works
Oct 01, 2023
Cheap vs Expensive Options | Warren Buffett on Options | Fed Powell Presser
Sep 25, 2023
0DTE Options Analysis| Inflation Coming Back? | Strong US Dollar Impact
Sep 17, 2023
Implied Volatility Deep Dive | Real Interest Rate Yields | The Big Short | Tesla vs Nvidia Volatilities
Sep 10, 2023
Recession Predictions Still Wrong? | Synthetic Options | Unemployment Anomalies | Oil Prices Breakout
Sep 04, 2023
0 DTE Options No Problem? | Jay Powell's Wyoming Speech Points to More Interest Rate Hikes?
Aug 27, 2023
Everyone Wrong on Interest Rates | What Fed Funds Probabilities Really Mean
Aug 23, 2023
S&P 500 Forward PE Valuations vs Future Returns | Volatility in Stock & Option Markets
Aug 13, 2023
US Debt Down Grade Effects | Interest Rates Effect on Option Prices | US Treasury Yield Curve Dis-inverting? | US Debt Massive Expansion
Aug 06, 2023
Cheapest (SPX) PUT Protection You've Ever Seen? | S&P 500 Index Rebalancing | Bank of Japan Hawkishness
Aug 01, 2023
Why Crash Predictions Don't Help | What Does the Market Fear? | Confusing Market Data | 11th Best Start to the Year
Jul 23, 2023
Does Inflation Matter? | Make More by Losing Less? | Volatility and Cost of Hedging | Someone Buys a lot of VIX Calls
Jul 15, 2023
Short Sellers Give Up? | The Case for Interest Rates to Stay High for Longer
Jul 10, 2023
Nasdaq 100 Index Strong First Half Equals Strong Second Half? | Overbought or not? | Trying to Guess the Forward PE Multiple Is Hard!
Jul 03, 2023
Fear and Greed Index | Volatility Surface | Put Call Ratio | Wall Street Gets Bullish | Homebuilders Surprise
Jun 26, 2023
Bear Market Rally or New Bull? |The Fed Talks Tough but Does Nothing | PE Like its 1995
Jun 18, 2023
Fund Flows into Tech go Parabolic | Was Everyone Wrong on International Markets? | Auto Dealership Profits
Jun 11, 2023
Cheaper to Rent than Buy? | Beneish-M Score Near Market Highs? | Top 10 Market Cap Companies by Decade | VIX Level Makes Multiyear Low
Jun 04, 2023
AI Is the New Crypto & Blockchain Post Nvidia Earnings | Reach for Long Duration Bonds | More Fed Rate Increases Coming? | 7% Treasury Bills?
May 28, 2023
AI Driving Market Returns? | Size of Top 2 S&P 500 Stocks Now 15%? | Relative Performance of Tech vs S&P 500 Index at Extreme Levels
May 21, 2023
US Default Chances Overblown? | Option & Bond Markets Not Showing Fear | Chat GPT AI Research 1979 US Debt Default | Short Sale Ban?
May 14, 2023
Dividend Deep Dive | ChatGPT AI Fed Research | Do Markets Go Up After Fed Pauses?
May 07, 2023
ChatGPT Investment Advice? | Too Much Money Causing 1m/3m T-bill Spread?
Apr 30, 2023
Weird Bond Yield Stuff Happening | New 1 Day VIX Index?
Apr 22, 2023
Debt Ceiling Risk | Recession Signals | 10/3 Yield Curve Inversion
Apr 16, 2023
Can The Fed Fail? | Q1 Winners Surprise the Crowd
Apr 09, 2023
One Thing No One Ever Talks About within the S&P 500 Index | FANG Stocks 1 Rest of Market 0
Apr 06, 2023
Fed Tightening and Easing All at Once? | How Wrong Were Analysts on Earnings?
Mar 26, 2023
Is Warren Buffett Right on Stock Buybacks? Bank Failures and the FDIC
Mar 18, 2023
Sequence of Recessions & Slowdowns | Dividends Make a Comeback?
Mar 12, 2023
US Debt Bomb & Interest Rates | Brewing Auto Loan Problem for Consumers?
Mar 05, 2023
Underperformance of International Stocks | Valuations Still Too High?
Feb 26, 2023
No Volmageddon 2.0 | No Landing for the Economy?
Feb 19, 2023
Now Everyone Is Bullish? | Shocking Impact of Missing Just the 2 Best Days Each Year
Feb 12, 2023
Scenario No One Is Talking About | Bond Spreads Above Fed Funds Smallest Since 2007
Feb 05, 2023
Are We Already In a Recession? | Markets Are Smarter Than Everyone | Picking Stocks Is Really Hard!
Jan 29, 2023
Max Bearish? | Earnings Declines Don't Mean Falling Stocks?
Jan 23, 2023
Value vs. Growth | Dividends Historically 40% of S&P 500 Total Returns
Jan 15, 2023
Yield Curve Inversion False Signal? | Competing Economic Data Points | About to Get Earnings Tsunami
Jan 08, 2023
Will We Have a New All-time High in Markets? | T-bills Outperform Equities?
Jan 04, 2023
2023 Predictions | Markets and the Economy
Dec 22, 2022
1994-95 All Over Again in Markets?
Dec 21, 2022
Enough Fed Pivot Talk!
Dec 12, 2022
Bearish Wall Street 2023 Targets | Fed Wants You To Lose Your Job?
Dec 06, 2022
M2 Money Supply Shrinking vs Inflation | Money Velocity Irrelevant?
Nov 30, 2022
FTX Crypto Debacle | Yield Curve Inversion | Enough with Recession Talk
Nov 20, 2022
Crypto Crash | US Dollar Is The Thing To Watch
Nov 13, 2022
Capitulation: Markets Tend to Lead the Economy
Nov 06, 2022
Midterm Elections and the Markets
Oct 30, 2022
Federal Reserve Going Bankrupt?
Oct 23, 2022
Open Letter to the Fed
Oct 17, 2022
Where Do Returns Come From?
Oct 07, 2022
Higher Rates Create Opportunity for Hedging
Sep 29, 2022
Nobody Knows Anything
Sep 25, 2022
Inflation Head Fake?
Sep 18, 2022
Do Markets Always Go Up After Midterm Elections?
Sep 11, 2022
Why Hedging Is the Answer for Portfolios | Can Hedgers Buy Markets Lower?
Sep 04, 2022
Gamma Squeeze Explained | Fed Talks Tough
Aug 29, 2022
Stocks Never Make New Lows When This Happens?
Aug 21, 2022
Does Diversification Fail When Needed Most?
Aug 14, 2022
War on Stock Buybacks | More Recession Talk
Aug 08, 2022
Debating What a Recession Is? | Someone is Wrong Between the Market & the Fed
Jul 30, 2022
Is the Strong US Dollar a Problem?
Jul 27, 2022
The Big Short Movie & Credit Default Swaps Explained
Jul 17, 2022
Do Target Date Funds Have More Risk Than People Think? | Historically Bad Year for Bonds
Jul 10, 2022
Crypto Winter | Bond Market Forecasting Recession?
Jul 05, 2022
Did All the Usual Inflation Hedges Fail Including TIPS Bonds? | What Goes into the Unemployment Numbers?
Jun 26, 2022
Is Bitcoin Play by MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor Crazy?
Jun 19, 2022
This Is Not Dotcom Bust 2.0 | Do Stock Splits Still Matter?
Jun 13, 2022
GDP Components Explained to Spot Recessions | Deep Dive into Explaining GDP
Jun 05, 2022
How Long do Bear Markets Last? | Is Everyone Too Pessimistic about the Economy?
May 29, 2022
Most Telegraphed Recession Ever? | The 4 Rs | Recession | Rates | Reduction of Stock Multiples | Russia
May 22, 2022
Why Interest Rates Effect Stock Market Valuations
May 15, 2022
Markets and Midterm Elections | Way to Early Predictions
May 08, 2022
Is Bad News Good News in Markets? | After Inflation Returns of Stocks Bonds Commodities
May 01, 2022
Netflix Drops 35% | Why Hedging Concentrated Single Stocks Makes Sense | Solving the Low Cost Basis Issue
Apr 24, 2022
How and Why Bonds Make or Lose Money When Interest Rates Change
Apr 17, 2022
Contrarian Take | Fed Raising Rates Will Increase Inflation
Apr 10, 2022
Yield Curve Inversion | Inflation Effects on Earnings
Apr 03, 2022
Death of 60/40 Portfolio? | Markets During Midterm Election Years | Hedging vs 60/40 Portfolio
Mar 27, 2022
Inflation Misconceptions
Mar 21, 2022
When Do Oil Prices Matter? | Is Volatility Too High? | Components of S&P 500 Returns
Mar 13, 2022
Risk Parity Strategy Explained | All Weather Portfolio
Mar 06, 2022
Market Corrections | Returns Around Geopolitical Events
Feb 27, 2022
Stock and Bond Performance After Fed Interest Raises Interest Rates | Inflation Expected to Be High in February
Feb 20, 2022
US $30 trillion Debt w/ Higher Rates – Investors Want Hedges – Contrarian Corner
Feb 13, 2022
Stock Multiple Rerating – The Yield Curve Message
Feb 06, 2022
Intrayear Selloffs – Misleading PE on Russell 2000?
Jan 31, 2022
Most Anticipated Fed Meeting While Markets Selloff
Jan 23, 2022
Contrarians In the Market
Jan 16, 2022
Fed Minutes Worry Markets
Jan 09, 2022
Doom and Gloom Predictions are Worthless + What Didn't Work in 2021
Jan 02, 2022
2022 Market Predictions
Dec 27, 2021
Desconstructing Stock Price - Earnings Multiple Expansion vs Earnings Expansion - Valuation Metrics
Dec 19, 2021
Will The Fed Raise Rates?
Dec 13, 2021
Market Pullback – Corporate Profit Margins At Decades High - Portfolio Risk Measures Explained
Dec 05, 2021
Markets – Oil Prices – Earnings – Covid Market Risk
Nov 28, 2021
Stocks During High Inflation
Nov 21, 2021
Inflation Deep Dive
Nov 14, 2021
Bitcoin Another Tulip Bubble? – Crypto Affecting S&P 500 Index Volatility? – Fed Taper - Inflation
Nov 08, 2021
The Housing Mirage?
Oct 31, 2021
Inflation Misunderstanding – Jack Dorsey Says Hyperinflation Coming – GDP Now Atlanta Fed
Oct 24, 2021
Talking Tech Earnings – Jamie Dimon on Bitcoin - Social Security COLA – Latest CPI Numbers – Container Shipping News
Oct 17, 2021
Fed Taper | Unemployment | Inflation | GDP | Treasury Yields
Oct 11, 2021
Political Risk – Debt Ceiling – Reconciliation - Budget
Oct 03, 2021
Worst Month for Stocks – Evergrande – Inflation – The Fed Taper – Housing Starts - Hedging
Sep 26, 2021
Stagflation Explained – Are We There Yet?
Sep 19, 2021
TIPS Inflation Protected Bonds Explained – Interest Rate Risk & Duration – and More with Marcel Benjamin
Sep 15, 2021
Inflation – What to Watch – Supply Side vs Demand Side
Sep 06, 2021
Talking Inflation, All-Time Market Highs, Interest Rates, Covid, Housing, & More
Aug 29, 2021
Bennett McDowell Guests to Discuss Trading Mistakes, Trading Live, Traits of Successful Traders and More…
Aug 22, 2021
Build Wealth Not Regrets
Aug 22, 2021
Historical Market Returns: Useful or Useless?
Aug 08, 2021
Clues to Watch On Future of Interest Rates
Aug 01, 2021
You're Worrying About the Wrong Things Plus S&P 500 Index Earnings and Valuation
Jul 27, 2021
Watch the Data not the News on Inflation
Jul 18, 2021
Container Shipping Effect on Inflation and Markets
Jul 13, 2021
Dan McMullen Talks Senior Loans, Leveraged Loans, CLOs, And More
Jul 03, 2021
How Does Volatility Change Options Prices
Jun 27, 2021
Is Inflation Really Out of Control?
Jun 20, 2021
Buy and Hedge: Protect Yourself from Yourself – Miss Two Best Market Days?
Jun 13, 2021
Fed Tapering?
Jun 06, 2021
What are Reverse Repos and Repos? Fed Enters Overnight Reverse Repo Market
May 31, 2021
Stages of Stock Market Bubbles
May 23, 2021
How is Inflation Measured? Sticky CPI vs Flexible CPI
May 16, 2021
How Much Ethereum and Bitcoin Should I Have in my Portfolio?
May 09, 2021
What are SPAC Special Purpose Acquisition Companies?
May 04, 2021
US 10 Year Treasuries Returns by Decade. Duration vs Maturity – More Risk Today Than Ever?
Apr 28, 2021
Marcel Benjamin - High Yield Bonds Explained – What are Zombie Companies?
Apr 19, 2021
MMT Modern Monetary Theory's Fatal Flaw? – What is in US Federal Budget? – Is the Tax Rate Irrelevant to Revenue Collected?
Apr 11, 2021
Stock Market Overvalued? – Stock Market Bubble and Inflation Google Searches Trending – Treasuries Worst Quarter Since?
Apr 04, 2021
Deal or No Deal – Hedged Equity – Option Value of Cash – Utility of Bonds in Portfolios
Mar 28, 2021
How Has the Stock Market Done Historically During Rising Rate Periods? Be Hedged!
Mar 14, 2021
U.S. Dollar Index Explained and Strong vs Weak US Dollar Pros and Cons
Mar 07, 2021
Interest Rate Shock! Is Inflation Coming?
Feb 28, 2021
Are Bonds Riskier with Low Interest Rates?
Feb 25, 2021
Bitcoin vs Gold vs Just Be Hedged on You Stock Portfolio?
Feb 14, 2021
Gamestop Short Squeeze Follow Up – Naked Shorts – Short Interest – Secondary Offerings – Short Sellers Good or Bad?
Feb 07, 2021
GameStop Short Squeeze by the Reddit Wall Street Bets Traders Explained
Jan 31, 2021
Get the Facts To Win Your Debate Around US Deficits, Budgets, and Spending Including Universal Basic Income (UBI) ( Replay)
Jan 24, 2021
What Causes Inflation?
Jan 21, 2021
Do Bond Yields Imply The S&P 500 is Undervalued?
Jan 10, 2021
High Probability Option Strategies Explained (Replay)
Dec 27, 2020
IPO Process: Traditional IPO vs Direct Listing IPO – AirBnB gets huge IPO pop
Dec 13, 2020
Sequence of Returns: Lose Early or Lose Late?
Dec 06, 2020
Viktor Nebehaj - Freetrade CMO and Co-Founder Talks Making Investing More Accessible to the World
Nov 29, 2020
Why Investors Should Not Climb the Wall of Worry in the Stock Market
Nov 15, 2020
Find Money in Your Couch Cushions to Invest in the Stock Market: How to Buy Your First Stocks
Nov 15, 2020
2020 Election Predictions and Review
Nov 01, 2020
Understanding US National Debt: Is it really that bad?
Oct 27, 2020
Is Your House an Asset or a Liability?
Oct 18, 2020
Bonds: Why Past Returns Performance May Not Predict the Future
Oct 12, 2020
Is the Election Causing Huge Volatility Spike for November VIX Contracts?
Oct 06, 2020
Is October Really the Most Volatile and Worst Month For Stock Market Returns?
Sep 27, 2020
Robinhood Option Traders vs. The Softbank Whale
Sep 19, 2020
Do Low Interest Rates Affect Stock Prices?
Sep 13, 2020
Netflix is Not Making You Broke: Personal Finance Budgets and Cash Flow Made Easy
Sep 07, 2020
Surprising Historical Returns by Presidents, Senate, and House by Party – Reviewing the 13 Keys to the White House for 2020 – Predictions for the 2020 Election President and Senate
Aug 30, 2020
What is Forward PE Ratio on S&P 500? Earnings Yield and Comparing Earnings Drop 2020 to 2008 Periods
Aug 23, 2020
Will the 60/40 Portfolio's Demise Ever Arrive? Are bonds still worth the risk?
Aug 16, 2020
Does Falling Money Velocity Point to Lower Inflation?
Aug 09, 2020
Apple 4-1 Stock Split – Do Stock Splits Matter – Dow Jones Index Major Re-Weighting Should Apple Split Stock
Aug 02, 2020
Day Trading for a Living? – Tesla Option Traders Get an Earnings Lesson
Jul 26, 2020
Will Tesla Get Into the S&P 500 Index? What are criteria for stocks to make S&P 500 Index?
Jul 19, 2020
Disconnect Between the Stock Market and the Economy?
Jul 12, 2020
Fed Buying Which ETFs and Bonds? – How do TIPS Treasury Inflation Protected Bonds Work?
Jul 06, 2020
What VIX Index Is, Implied Volatility, Options Probabilities
Jun 28, 2020
How Young Investors Build Wealth – Dollar Cost Averaging – Fractional Shares – Automatic Investment Plans
Jun 21, 2020
Lower Interest Rates for Longer – Alternatives Strategies to Bonds – Inflation Expectations – Mortgage Rates
Jun 14, 2020
William Rhind Talks Growing vs Faltering Companies -Technology Disruption/Adoption - Value vs Growth -Interest Rates and More
Jun 07, 2020
How to Estimate Social Security Benefits Made Easy
May 31, 2020
Comparing Bear Markets Through the Years and Lessons Learned
May 24, 2020
Is Deflation Both Good and Bad at The Same Time?
May 17, 2020
Margin Call Movie and Var Value at Risk Explained
May 10, 2020
What are Zombie Companies?
May 03, 2020
Paid to Buy a Barrel of Oil? Oil Price Goes Negative
Apr 26, 2020
Why Do Investors Make Such Poor Decisions Sometimes? (Replay)
Apr 19, 2020
What is the High Yield Bond Spread? And Why Do Investors Watch It?
Apr 05, 2020
How Long Recessions Last
Mar 31, 2020
Bear Market History Time of Peak to Trough and Back
Mar 22, 2020
Should Price Gouging on Toilet Paper Be Allowed?
Mar 16, 2020
What happens when the Fed cuts interest rates and probabilities of future cuts?
Mar 08, 2020
Should I Payoff My Mortgage Early or Invest?
Mar 01, 2020
The Big Short Movie & Credit Default Swaps Explained
Feb 15, 2020
Are Bonds Riskier with Low Interest Rates?
Feb 09, 2020
Short Selling Explained: Tesla Short Interest and Short Squeeze?
Jan 26, 2020
Market Pundits Claim Lower Return Decade Ahead: Are they Wrong?
Jan 21, 2020
Is the FIRE Movement Doable and the 4% Withdrawal Rate?
Jan 07, 2020
Earnings Multiples, Valuations, Revenue, Net Profit Margins, Stock Buybacks and other Explanations
Dec 23, 2019
Stock Market Predictions Are Wrong So Just Be Hedged
Nov 26, 2019
Case Studies: Hedging Single Stock Risk
Nov 19, 2019
Hedging Concentrated Stock Risk
Nov 13, 2019
Why Covered Calls Are Not A True Hedge
Nov 02, 2019
Why Do Investors Make Such Poor Decisions Sometimes?
Oct 27, 2019
Is Getting to the Top 10% In Wealth Easier than you think?
Oct 20, 2019
Are Share Buybacks Good for Investors?
Oct 12, 2019
Should Capital Gains be Indexed for Inflation?
Sep 29, 2019
What makes public pensions underfunded?
Sep 22, 2019
Is the Lower Interest Rate Bond Trade Getting Crowded?
Sep 15, 2019
How Low Interest Rates Can Benefit Corporations
Sep 08, 2019
Is the Market Overvalued?
Sep 01, 2019
Is a Recession Coming?
Aug 24, 2019
Problems with Concentrated Stock Risk
Aug 11, 2019
Benefits of Options Time Decay Theta
Aug 03, 2019
High Probability Option Strategies Explained
Jul 21, 2019
Fear of Investing: Surprising Data Points to Markets Near All-time Highs 36% of the time?
Jul 07, 2019
How Are Options Priced and What is Short Volatility?
Jun 30, 2019
Wacky Negative Yielding Bonds and Need for Alternative Income
Jun 23, 2019
Explaining Bonds for Investors and Corporations
Jun 16, 2019
Is The Federal Reserve Really That Bad At Long Range Economic Forecasts?
Jun 12, 2019
Importance of Real Returns Above Inflation and How to Calculate Them
Jun 02, 2019
Myths Around Options Plus Hedging Concentrated Positions
May 26, 2019
What the Options Market Tells Us About Expected Stock Moves Around Earnings
May 12, 2019
Get the Facts To Win Your Debate Around US Deficits, Budgets, and Spending Including Universal Basic Income (UBI)
May 05, 2019
Part 2: Discussing Myths Around the Classic 60/40 Portfolio
Apr 22, 2019
The Unicorn IPOs are Coming: What Their S-1 Filings Divulge
Apr 14, 2019
Discussing Myths Around the Classic 60/40 Portfolio: Part I
Apr 07, 2019
The Yield Curve Inverted Plus Explaining Different Ways To Calculate Annualized Returns
Mar 31, 2019
How Purchasing Power of the Dollar is Eroding Plus Why Inflation Hurts Investors
Mar 24, 2019
How to find and review a stocks financials and ratios plus backtesting
Mar 16, 2019
Most Overlooked Benefit from Portfolio Hedging Strategies
Feb 24, 2019
How Can Investors Hedge Downside Risks on Single Stocks?
Feb 16, 2019
Are Hedged Portfolios More Optimal Than Modern Portfolio Theory or Efficient Frontier Designed Ones?
Jan 27, 2019
Podcast: Probabilities of Future Federal Reserve Interest Rate Moves?
Jan 05, 2019
Podcast: Bear Market? This is What You've Been Preparing for With a Hedged Equity Strategy
Dec 21, 2018
Target Date Investment Funds: Good, Bad, Or Just Misunderstood?
Dec 16, 2018
What are Risk Adjusted Investment Returns?
Dec 02, 2018
EP013: The Option Volatility Episode
Nov 16, 2018
Ep012: Does Diversification Alone Reduce Systematic Market Risk?
Nov 11, 2018
EP011: How Do Interest Rates Affect the Economy and Stock Market?
Nov 01, 2018
Ep10: Deconstructing GDP, Inflation, and Unemployment Economic Indicators for Investors
Oct 27, 2018
Two Main Things People Get Wrong Comparing 1970's Bonds in Rising Rate Environment to Potential Rise in Rates Today Show Summary:
Oct 13, 2018
The Warren Buffett Indicator
Sep 29, 2018
Using Big Data and Machine Learning to Pinpoint Stocks Earnings Surprises
Sep 20, 2018
Adding Downside Buffers to Investment Portfolios Using Options
Sep 13, 2018
Do Presidential, Senate, and House Party Affiliations Really Impact Stock Market Returns?
Sep 01, 2018
Why Investors Need a Protective Hedged Equity Strategy
Aug 23, 2018
Volatility as an Asset Class? Discussion Around Shorting Volatility Premium Using Credit Spreads
Aug 16, 2018
What is the Yield Curve Inversion and Why People Care?
Aug 09, 2018
What to Consider When Saving for Retirement
Aug 07, 2018