There is short selling ban in Spain, Italy etc but buying puts seems to be fine. I haven’t traded any ETF’s directly since this started.

Hi Randy, sorry for posting my issue here in the comments. I am a new subscriber and everything was working fine until today at 2am. I got more than 1 thousand emails nonstop all the way back from 2013. It stopped at this movement, was that intended to happen or do I have some technical problem with my account?
Thank you

Silver caught a bid today. Wondering if its a bottom or a whipsaw.

Member @dfogart had the most logical reason for the relative strength in natural gas in recent weeks with the plunge in crude oil: https://rightsideofthechart.com/analysis-of-stocks-bonds-euro-us-dollar-3-9-20/#comment-10192

I do plan to compile a list of long-term investments/trend trade ideas when the time is right but I haven’t started that process yet as, at least for now, I believe that we are only in the very early stages of the first bear market in over a decade. Assuming that assumption is correct, then diverting resources (my time) to looking for entry levels on long-term holds that are months or even years away from bottoming will only take away from searching for opportunities to profit in the foreseeable future.

Just as all ships are lifted in a rising tide (bull market), all ships tend to drop in a falling tide. Proof of that can be found by pulling the long-term charts of any of the bluest of blue-chip stocks or the market-leading FAAMGs stocks from Oct 2007- March 6, 2009 (the last bear market). With that being said, I will share any standout long-term investing opps if & as I come across them, whether or not they appear to offer objective entries at the time or after a continued drop to a specific level(s).

Will do. I’m finally starting to warm back up to the miners after being cold on them for a while (since they tend to get sold down with stock market during strong sell-offs as they are, in fact, stocks, not gold or commodities). That, plus the fact the charts of gold weren’t so hot recently with those divergent highs but now that I’m bullish on gold again plus leaning towards a potentially explosive rally in the stock market this week, the miners could be poised to run. I’ll post some analysis on GDX & some of the big miners like NEM tomorrow but as of now, I can say that I’d rather be long than short NEM for the foreseeable future unless the charts change.

People here are in super panic mode after SF Mayor’s announcement that SF will require people to stay home except for essential needs effective midnight today.

If the market takes another major leg down, can you share some of the companies that are good for long term investment or what you usually look for when you search for these companies?

Thanks again Randy.

I don’t know. If I had or get the time, I would/will try to read up on some of the proposals floating around but I’m not sure if a short-selling ban would included the inverse/short ETFs or only shorting individual stocks & ETFs direction (via short-selling, not buying/gong long inverse ETFs).
Regardless of the technicalities of exactly how a short-selling ban would work, I think the bigger impact would be the psychological impact that it would have as it would most likely spark at least an initial strong rally in the market and if that proves to be the case, it obviously wouldn’t be good for SQQQ.