FISH STORIES / BLOG
Occasionally I blog about fishing, the fishing industry and behind the scenes in the life of this humble fisher. These can be rigorously thought-out or pure fluff pieces. You get what you get. Kinda like fishing.
Product Announcement: LaDucTrading’s Brokerage-Triggered Trade Alerts
Here's the Bait! LaDucTrading offers clients a Live Portfolio of all trades taken across multiple time-frames, asset classes and strategies. These trades are viewable in one place, mirror an actual brokerage account and are linked to real-time trade alerts with...
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My latest SeeItMarket Article – Livin’ on a Prayer
https://www.seeitmarket.com/stock-market-thoughts-livin-on-a-prayer-19538/ Sign up for my Daily Market Thoughts for Free Fishing...
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My Benzinga Presentation June 20 in NYC
After FIVE FULL days in NYC, I am back home and back to my trading desk. My feet+wallet hurt in equal proportions as I secured an Apartment for my daughter’s internship on Wednesday and spent the Weekend walking, drinking and dining with my girlfriend who flew in from...
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Samantha’s MarketWatch Article: Stock Market Will Be Sorely Disappointed By A Fed Rate Cut
The morning of the FOMC minutes last Wednesday the 19th, and before Powell's press conference, MarketWatch published Samantha’s MarketWatch article wherein her thesis is not that the Fed will cut – that’s assumed – but that rate cuts will have diminishing returns on...
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Samantha Speaking at Benzinga Trading Summit NYC June 20th
I'm going to NEW YORK CITY - woot woot! I have been invited to present at this year's Benzinga Trading Summit this Thursday June 20th in NYC. I'm glad there will be a few of us Women in Trading representing the space - okay just three but still ... With that, I will...
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Announcing Fishing Lessons!
Each trading day Samantha scans and synthesizes macro and market moving news in an effort to bring the best Momentum and Value Plays to LaDucTrading clients. At the end of the trading day, now Members and Non-Members alike can receive a recap of Samantha’s market...
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My DailyFX Podcast Interview
I am a Macro-to-Micro analyst and trader - most are one or the other. I have retail and institutional clients - most have one or the other. Why? Because I can operationalize the macro into actionable chase, swing and trend trades for any size trader in a way that...
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Market Thoughts: Silver and Gold Are The New VIX
What I saw. How we traded it. What’s next... A little more Micro than Macro this time.
Thanks:
@sentimentrader
@_SeanDavid
@eddiemac3356
@johnauthers
https://t.co/J7a0vz6ydm
Who else will fall?
(Purdue already tapped out - bankruptcy to mitigate 2000 lawsuits)
Not Done:
Drug Manufacturers
Distributing Pharmacies
Prescribing doctors/hospitals
And this data is only through 2012 before the hockey stick of contagion...
$XLV
Is this hyperbole?
Drug ENFORCEMENT Agency ...
“For decades, DEA has had exclusive access to this data, which can identify the total volumes of controlled substances being ordered, pharmacy-by-pharmacy, across the country”
#OpiodEpidemic https://t.co/FoOxUpSaDn
Is this hyperbole?
Drug ENFORCEMENT Agency ...
“For decades, DEA has had exclusive access to this data, which can identify the total volumes of controlled substances being ordered, pharmacy-by-pharmacy, across the country”
#OpiodEpidemic
And...
“May 28, 2019 - A major opioid trial, the first of its kind, begins in Oklahoma. The trial is expected to determine whether states and municipalities can hold drug companies accountable for the opioid crisis. The defendant in the case is Johnson & Johnson”
$JNJ https://t.co/OlAEdu0mXr
And...
“May 28, 2019 - A major opioid trial, the first of its kind, begins in Oklahoma. The trial is expected to determine whether states and municipalities can hold drug companies accountable for the opioid crisis. The defendant in the case is Johnson & Johnson”
$JNJ
THEY BURY THE LEAD!!!!!
“The opioid litigation is now larger in scope than the tobacco litigation of the 1980s, which resulted in a $246 billion settlement over 25 years.”
@washingtonpost https://t.co/yIzM103yuT
THEY BURY THE LEAD!!!!!
“The opioid litigation is now larger in scope than the tobacco litigation of the 1980s, which resulted in a $246 billion settlement over 25 years.”
@washingtonpost
The DEA keeps a database of where every prescription opioid shipment goes across the country. The full national database has never been public. Until now. https://t.co/i2iKZHHkCH