Seeking Alpha by Adding Beta

What a week of theatrics by all the Ts mentioned. Let's look at each one of these! Trade:   Trade and tariffs continue to dominate the news with skirmishes between US and Canada, potential battle with Japan and escalating trade war with China. On the strength of US economy, US seems to have upper hand which Trump and his trade representative wants to fully exploit and extract most from its trade partners. Mexico fell in line so will most likely Canada resulting into NAFTA 2.0 by end of year. EU has started taking about "no tariffs or reciprocal tariffs" on cars. Japanese are smart not to ruffle feathers with Trump administration. And then there is China! The trade talks started two weeks back but did not made any progress. Most likely tariffs on another $200B Chinese goods  will happen and then serious negotiations will start resulting into some kind of deal by end of year. Till then trade will continue to dominate the economic news Tech: After reaching all time high i...

Happy Labor's Day to everyone. The month of Sept is here - one of the worst month in terms of market volatility and precursor to even dreaded Oct month. Sept 15 will be 10 year anniversary of famous Lehman Bankruptcy which started great recession of last decade. So it's time to pause, reflect and decide what's best strategy for remaining 4 months of 2018.  The market voted unanimously who is winning the battle of trade wars between US and China with US markets reaching all time highs and Chinese markets entering into bear territory. This is one the reason China is entering into discussions again. The "Game of Chicken" between US and China may be entering into decisive phase in next few weeks. And that's good for markets. Now let's look at best performing S&P stock of the year - AMD and what I mean by new "A" in FANG. As most of you must be knowing, FANG represents 6 companies (originally there were 4): Facebook, Apple/Amazon, Netflix/Nvidi...