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black swan swimming, sheaff brock assesses the post-pandemic market

08 Aug

On the Tail of a Black Swan, Market Trends to “Normal”

As far as black swan events go, the COVID-19 pandemic would certainly qualify for the title. Back in a 2007 book, finance professor Nassim Nicolas Taleb used the phrase “black swans” to describe very rare and impactful events that could not have been predicted. In terms of the stock market, Taleb characterized the 2008 financial crisis as a black swan event. While many consider the 2020 pandemic to be a second example of a black swan event, Taleb believes the [...]

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innovation of the Roarin' 20s, stock market trajectory, Sheaff Brock

06 Mar

Innovation Set to Spur New Roarin’ 20s-Style Market

The stock market is a forward-looking animal, explains Sheaff Brock Managing Director Dave Gilreath, yet signs indicate that clues to what lies ahead may be found in our Roarin’ 20s’ USA past. There is a very real potential for the Dow Jones Industrial Average to hit 50,000 by the year 2027, Gilreath states. That’s because the decade of the 2020s, like the decade of the 1920s, will be marked by both disruption and innovation. “Confidence in the recovery is growing rapidly,” [...]

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Walking Dogs | Dogs of the Dow Investment Strategy | Sheaff Brock | Bulls of the Dow

09 Jan

A Bullish Approach to “Dogs of the Dow”—Part Two

The well-known “Dogs of the Dow” concept focuses on choosing, out of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average, those ten with the highest dividend yield. Based on investors’ intent to “buy low, sell high,” the guiding principle of “Dogs of the Dow” is that the dividend payout can be used as a measure of the average worth of the company, with a high yield signaling that the company is near the bottom of its [...]

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Sheaff Brock | Dogs of the Dow Strategy - bulldogs in the office

16 Dec

A Bullish Approach to “Dogs of the Dow”—Part One

Nearly thirty years in use, the term “Dogs of the Dow” is hardly new to investor vocabulary. The concept—out of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average, choose the ten with the highest dividend yield. Dogs of the Dow is based on investors’ intent to “buy low, sell high.” The premise, as Investopedia explains, is that blue chip companies such as those included in the DJIA rarely alter their dividend payouts. The dividend can thus be [...]

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Taking the elevator down | option overlay for returns | Sheaff Brock

04 Nov

Option Premiums Can Provide Additive Returns During the Elevator Ride

“Stocks often take the elevator down and the stairs up,” Sheaff Brock Managing Director Dave Gilreath comments, referring to the strong rallies following the stagnant markets in 2004–2005, 2011–2012, and 2015–2016. “The stock market often takes a breather before rallying up to a higher plateau,” Gilreath adds. With the Dow Jones “stuck” for the past year-and-a-half, he observes, it’s not unreasonable to anticipate another “stair-climbing” period. In an earlier First Trust Monday Morning Outlook report, Chief Economist Brian S. Wesbury, [...]

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Sheaff Brock | S&P 500 is a measuring stick of the 500 largest US corporations

30 Oct

Please Welcome to the Stage…the Standard & Poor’s Index!

It’s a measuring stick, a benchmark, a way to discuss our investment markets. But what, exactly, does it DO? The S&P 500 index measures the value of the stock of the country’s 500 largest corporations listed on the New York Stock Exchange or on the Nasdaq Composite. The idea? To provide investors a quick look at the stock market and the economy. And, while many investors first check the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 index is the [...]