by Chad Shoop | Mar 23, 2021 | American Investor Today, COVID-19, Earnings, news, Retail, U.S. Economy
My family has been waiting two months for a new stovetop. A new couch for my family would’ve been delayed two months after we bought it, the last time I looked. And the PlayStation 5, something we have been looking for since the holidays, is still out of stock. But...
by Chad Shoop | Mar 16, 2021 | American Investor Today, Bull Market, Interest Rates, Options Trading, Trading Strategies, U.S. Economy
It feels like every few weeks there’s a new reason to sell your stocks. And worries over rising rates are the latest development getting investors to sell perfectly fine shares of stock. Wall Street analysts are pointing to rising interest rates as the reason we’re...
by Chad Shoop | Mar 9, 2021 | 2021, American Investor Today, Earnings, Investment Opportunities, S&P 500, U.S. Economy
I know the stock market has been volatile the past few days. We’ve seen big momentum stocks, the ones that shot up hundreds or thousands of percent in 2020, drop 10% to 30% in a matter of days. Tesla, our old favorite electric vehicle stock, has plunged as much as 40%...
by Chad Shoop | Jan 5, 2021 | 2020 Financial Crisis, American Investor Today, COVID-19, Global Financial Crisis, Options Trading, U.S. Economy
Back in March, if someone told you the stock market would finish the year with a double-digit gain, you’d have thought they were crazy. The world’s economy was shutting down. The stock market was crashing. And there was no end in sight. But Americans pushed through...
by Chad Shoop | Dec 1, 2020 | 2020 Financial Crisis, American Investor Today, news, Trading Strategies, U.S. Economy
In less than a month, we can finally put 2020 behind us. But it doesn’t mean we are at the end of unprecedented times. This year was dominated by the coronavirus. The pandemic impacted our daily lives and disrupted the global economy. And the stock market was...
by Chad Shoop | Nov 3, 2020 | 2020 Financial Crisis, American Investor Today, Investing, news, Technology, U.S. Economy
Every media company has bombarded you with “what this election will mean to you.” They focus on the agendas of President Trump and Joe Biden. Then they give you their slant on what it could mean for your everyday life. This isn’t one of those articles. I’ll come right...
