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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.UNLOCKED: My Weekly Fishing Plan October 21 – 25
I recently launched my Daily Market Catch email blog - The One Big Thing, Top Charts, Top Tweets, Top Trades, Great Reads/Videos Today I am rewarding those who signed up with a Client Exclusive. Here is one of my client deliverables for my active traders UNLOCKED....
read moreDaily FX Podcast: Trading Global Markets Decoded
Macro-to-Micro, Options and Women in Trading | Samantha LaDuc | Article and Podcast September 28th I was invited back to DailyFx for an interview where we Martin Essex and I discussed a wide-array of topics: from trading psychology to fading oil pops on supply...
read moreRepo & Liquidity – Write Up
Repo Market Madness… and Flash Crashes!?! I stand by my call that risk of Flash Crash increases with Major Momo distribution under the seemingly calm surface and major structural USD implications spur potential panic for Cash. Perhaps the repo ruckus isn't totally...
read moreMacro-To-Micro Power Hour Webinar Recording – Pearls!
Wednesday I was interviewed by the the one-and-only Jerremy Newsome (two "R"s), who definitely knows how to make his guests feel really comfortable and supported! Being more relaxed definitely allowed me to offer up a lot of 'pearls' on...
read moreMarket Thoughts: Can Fed Cuts Save US From Economic Recession?
I couldn't make my Market Timing Calls for Clients without the Intermarket Analysis work that I do - which is beyond the Macro, Fundamental, Sentiment and Technical Analysis I provide. Here's a cute-ish play-by-play on why and how I use Intermarket Analysis to time...
read moreMarket Thoughts: Inside Jokes & The Week Ahead
Funny Ha-Ha or Funny Strange I am going to share an inside joke with you, and then talk about how this market is one giant Inside Joke. For clients in my Live Trading Room and readers of my Gone Fishing Newsletter, you know how I have been studying and trying hard to...
read moreMarket Thoughts: “It could happen sooner than you think”
Turnaround Tuesday Was Late Markets were weak at the open with Unicorns - IGV and FFTY companies - flying down as the overbought momentum tech plays continued to have profit taking. Some of the selling is the continued Rotation from Momentum into Value but it is also...
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Live Webinar • Wednesday, October 2nd • 6pm CDT Join Samantha and Jerremy Newsome of RealLifeTrading.com as they cover how they trade market-moving news and momentum!...
read moreGuest Captain Posts: Repo Madness and a P.S.A.
Consider this a Public Service Announcement Read everything Jess of Monday Morning Macro has written if you are serious about protecting your money. She is "In The Zone" with this whole Repo Madness: ♥ Far Too Little, Far Too Late ♣ Wait, what? You haven't heard...
read moreMarket Thoughts: Historic Market Timing Calls
My job is to identify Inflection Points, and then to 'operationalize' them so as to call out actionable trades for clients. Last week was an exceptional week of Market Timing Calls - from my Bond Short Call the day before a 3-sigma standard deviation move in...
read moreMarket Thoughts: What If There Is A Trade Deal?
It was a dramatic day in that my recent posts to sell Bonds and Gold/Miners happened much faster than I expected, but also in that I potentially discovered a reason - outside of my published analysis - as to why stocks, bonds, gold moved so strongly today. Quick...
read moreMarket Thoughts: I Sold My Gold & Miners Today
Gold and Miners have done nothing wrong to warrant me selling them today. In fact, they have performed beyond expectations since I called for a Gold rally in my June 6 podcast for DailyFX and again updated Gold thesis for SeeItMarket this August. Samantha LaDuc, July...
read moreMarket Thoughts: Spying a Bond Pullback
Welcome to September... Despite a strong week last week - after four weeks of sideways chop - markets opened down to start the new month with Russell the weakest. The stock and major macro moves today were pretty much over within the 1st 15 minutes: USD continues...
read moreFishing Idea: CVNA – Candy For Millennials
On Friday I was asked for my analysis on Carvana - ticker CVNA - for publication at CCN, an online markets and crypto publication out of Norway. Below is the exact analysis I sent, and here is the article they wrote from it - featuring a few quotes of mine that...
read moreMarket Thoughts: Shaken But Not Stirred
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering, 'I will try again tomorrow.' Mary Anne Radmacher This was my sentiment on the last day of the month of August after a week of chop - both in the indices as well as in...
read moreMarket Thoughts: Out Of The Pool
Why Was I Short? What Did I See? The following is a recap of my Intraday Trading off Headline-Risks Friday, along with some of my Intermarket Analysis leading up into the big sell-off that clients had in advance, plus an overview of my Macro Views that support more...
read moreMy RealLife Interview: Day Trading Macro News
Back in June at the Benzinga Trading Summit conference in NYC where I presented, I met Jerremy Newsome, founder of RealLife Trading. He invited me to speak with his students about how I use Macro news and...
read moreMy Lastest SeeItMarket Articles – on Trade Wars and Gold
It’s been over a year now since the ‘official’ start of the US-China Trade War, if picking Day 1: July 6, 2018 – US implements first China-specific tariffs. I wrote about this disconnect between market price action and valuations in my SeeItMarket article, Livin’ On A...
read moreMarket Thoughts: Looking To Change It Up
Market Thoughts It's been over a year now since the 'official' start of the US-China Trade War, if picking Day 1: July 6, 2018 – US implements first China-specific tariffs. I wrote about this disconnect between market price action and valuations in my SeeItMarket...
read moreMarket Thoughts: Trump Triggers China Short Ideas
Market Thoughts When is the last time we had Rate cuts and QE at the same time?! We just got both and although it may not time or rhyme with 1995 and 1998 or 2001 and 2007, it certainly does feel foreboding given both trade tensions AND economic slowdown. THAT was my...
read moreMarket Thoughts: From QT to QE in a New York Minute
Market Thoughts Despite market at all-time-highs, positive GDP growth, unemployment at 50 yr lows and, as a result, consumer confidence near 20 year highs, oh, and even with fiscal and monetary conditions at their loosest in decades, Fed Chair Powell announced the...
read moreMarket Thoughts: US Dollar on Path of Least Resistance
Market Thoughts Big deficits and looser monetary policy are negative USD, but as long as Currency-hedged US Treasury Yields remain negative then the USD is not weakened significantly. And that is in part why ECB, BOJ et al keep doing it – keep range-bound USD in good...
read moreMarket Thoughts: Yields Likely Pop Despite Fed Cuts
Market Thoughts Last few weeks I have posted my market timing calls and so far so good (tad early or wrong on oil+gas plays potentially): Thinking out loud, here are my short-timeframe Macro-to-Micro Calls for the next few weeks (already detailed in last week’s...
read moreElevating Trader Education
“If I quit now, I will soon be back to where I started. And when I started I was desperately wishing to be where I am now.” That's how I felt after I embarked on a journey to build a Trader Education App that linked live market orders in a real brokerage account with...
read moreMarket Thoughts: To Cut Or Not To Cut
Market Thoughts Bifurcated Rate Cut Sentiment When Fed member John Williams suggested last Thursday that ‘r-star’ is .50%, markets took it as a sign that a 50 bps rate cut is in the cards. Bonds rallied, markets recovered their day’s losses and Gold and Silver...
read moreMarket Thoughts: The Race To The Bottom
Market Thoughts Central Banks On Parade Markets have no fear. Stocks are at all time highs and Volatility is at all time lows. ECB, BOJ and FED are all due to report their rate decisions in the next week. Draghi goes first. And judging from the price action you...
read moreMarket Thoughts: Thinking Out Loud
Market Thoughts To catch you up on Last Week’s Fishing Lessons / Daily Weather Reports: Monday (yesterday): Market Thoughts: Let’s Talk About Volatility Friday: Market Thoughts: Oil About To Get Busy? Thursday: Market Thoughts: Let’s Talk About Gold Wednesday: Market...
read moreMarket Thoughts: Let’s Talk About Volatility
Market Thoughts My volatility senses were piqued last Monday. I sent out a warning for a market rollover: If you thought that was a nice move from 3018 to 2985, well consider this: my breadth indicators (this is but one) are indicating the roll-over is just starting....
read moreWomen in Economics, Finance and Trading: Great FinTwit List
14 Perspectives on Finance, Markets, and Economies: Enhance Your #FinTwit Feed Recently I was added to a FinTwit Feed of Women in Economics, Finance and Trading. I was excited to learn this list has been curated for some time, first publishing the list and value of...
read moreMarket Thoughts: Oil About To Get Busy?
Market Thoughts Stocks faded hard into the close Friday, along with Gold and Silver. This was the worst week since end of May. So what changed? Most point to the market discounting that the Fed might not be dovish enough - cutting by only 25 bps versus 50 bps. Market...
read moreDailyFX Podcast and Article – Intermarket Analysis with Samantha LaDuc
Check out my Daily Fx Podcast | Intermarket Analysis with Samantha LaDuc Although this Interview was conducted on June 6th, I am re-posting for a few reasons: Tyler was more interested in how I think, and therefore approach trading, then my actual market analysis....
read moreMarket Thoughts: Let’s Talk About Gold
Market Thoughts Gold Skyrocketed. Why? We have experienced a lot of dis-inflationary headwinds from the synchronized global slowdown and ultra loose monetary policies in the US, Europe and Asia specifically but globally in general. What could change these dis...
read moreMarket Thoughts: Silver and Gold Are The New VIX
Market Thoughts There's a lot to unpack in the growing instability of the markets right now so I'm going to resort to equal parts summarizing with granularity. Banks - All four Big Banks have reported - C, BAC, JPM, WFC - and all delivered positive earnings surprises...
read moreMarket Thoughts: Two Acts Running On The Same Main Stage
Market Thoughts Last week, the market 'got its' cookie. (Promised Rate Cuts=Cookie) Bloomberg: Stocks broadly rallied Wednesday after the publication of Powell’s remarks before the House Financial Services Committed in which the Fed Chairman emphasized rising risks to...
read moreMarket Thoughts: As Good As It Gets?
Market Thoughts "What makes it so hard is not that you had it bad, but that you're that pissed that so many others had it good." Melvin Udall in As Good As It Gets movie Correct me if I'm wrong, but many traders are in a state of angst. Despite all-time-highs, they...
read moreSamantha’s Fault!
My cheery, live trading room moderator, WallStreetJane, can be heard calling out, "Samantha's Fault!" And she's right. All FIVE Daily Market Thoughts from LAST WEEK (July 8-12) are now posted in the right place... under FISHING LESSONS for non-members, Daily Weather...
read moreGuest Captain Commentary: What the heck is going on with the bond market?
Ok, so it's not just one guest captain, but a whole fleet. This weekend I did my usual perusal of macro reading and I couldn't help but click on each of these articles from Bloomberg contributors and want to share them all! What the heck is going on with the bond...
read moreProduct 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...
read moreMarket Thoughts: Lowest Volume Day of the Year on SPY
Market Thoughts Today witnessed The Lowest Volume Day of the Year on $SPY. With that, there is not a lot of breakout conviction and given the Debt Ceiling Showdown - as talked about earlier in week in detail - it's probable the market starts to sputter into NYSE...
read moreMarket Thoughts: If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
Market Thoughts If you give a mouse a cookie is a children's book that came immediately to mind when reading the constant debate about the slippery slope of 'allowing' markets to influence the Fed's monetary policies. The plot goes like this: A boy gives a cookie to a...
read moreMarket Thoughts: “Crosscurrents”
Market Thoughts In a prepared statement, Fed Chair Jerome Powell signaled a rate cut citing “crosscurrents” that are weighing on the economy. Initially, dollar dumped and acted as a catalyst for S&P futures to shoot up. The bullish statement is the salve markets...
read moreMarket Thoughts: Rate Cuts and Dollar Devaluation
Market Thoughts The US 10-year yield is chugging higher while the S&P drips lower to its 8D support - with Powell's speech released 90 mins before the open Wednesday (i.e. 8:30 Eastern). USD bulls will argue that any rate cut would be "one and done", but Fed has never...
read moreMarket Thoughts: Damned if he does and Damned if he doesn’t
Market Thoughts Powell is loathe to cut, but has been intonating Fed will cut. They have have already acknowledged “Inflation Shortcomings” which emboldens rate traders who have already front-run the rate cuts. But will they cut 25 or 50bp? And what of the US Dollar?...
read moreMy latest SeeItMarket Article – Livin’ on a Prayer
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read moreMarket Thoughts: Be Careful What You Ask For, Market.
Market Thoughts I can't use the same title of my Daily post from yesterday again - Stocks and Safe Havens Rise Together - but that's what's still happening. U.S. Stocks Rise to Records while Treasuries Rally! And as if on cue: Futures reached $3,000 just in time for...
read moreMarket Thoughts: Stocks and Safe Havens Rise Together
Market Thoughts Surprisingly, I think the market is acting ‘efficiently’ this week. With an expected move of $35 on Monday - $52 for the week (either direction) – we had our tag of that $35 point move Monday then faded on profit taking/expiring options. Now we likely...
read moreMarket Thoughts: Stall Speed
Market Thoughts I added no Volatility into the G20 event. I expected 'optics' not specifics. There was talk of compromise, some would say can-kicking: Trump said he would hold off imposing tariffs on an another $300 billion of Chinese goods (versus the earlier threat...
read moreGuest Captain Commentary: Chinese Are Driving Bitcoin
Bryan Rich runs Billionaire's Portfolio and writes an almost daily column for his service as well as contributes at Forbes. This post caught my attention as it succinctly lays out a theme I have seen presented about a month ago by Bond Manager Peter Tchir. Bitcoin...
read moreMarket Thoughts: Livin’ On A Prayer
Market Thoughts Oh, we've got to hold on, ready or not You live for the fight when it's all that you've got Woah, we're half way there Woah, livin' on a prayer Take my hand, we'll make it I swear Woah, livin' on a prayer ... Bon Jovi As we close the first half of 2019...
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