Tag Archives: (NFLX)

November 24, 2025

Global Market Comments November 24, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or THE TAIL WAGGING THE DOG) ($INDU), (SPY), ($VIX), (GOOGL), (GS), (MS), (RKT),(NFLX), (AMZN), (GOOGL), (APPL), (NFLX), (GS), (ZM), (MS), (BLK)

The Market Outlook for the Week Ahead, or The Tail Wagging the Dog

You can be forgiven for thinking that the stock market has become manic-depressive, which, over the last two trading days, ended up violently flat. On Thursday, the Dow Average ($INDU) shed 1,100 points in the wake of Nvidia’s blockbuster earnings report. NASDAQ (QQQ) stocks saw the widest range since April 2 Liberation Day, when stocks […]

November 17, 2025

Global Market Comments November 17, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or IT’S ALL ABOUT INTEREST RATES), (HOOD), (CRWV), (BTC), (ORCL), (NFLX), (GS), (ZM), (MS), (BLK), (GT), (WHR), ORCL), (INTC), (BABA)

The Market Outlook for the Week Ahead, or It’s All About Interest Rates

Up until October 28, the market has been discounting another cut in interest rates by 25 basis points at the next Fed meeting on December 10. Since October 28, the market has been backing out that expectation, giving us a 4.4% correction in the S&P 500 (SPY). The sell-off had been led by the Magnificent […]

The Market Outlook for the Week Ahead, or Reality Check

I’ll never forget the most interesting start to a college course I ever attended. I enrolled late for my freshman year at the University of Southern California because a full all-expense paid scholarship came in only at the last minute. I thought the best value for money major I could take was in the sciences […]

The Margin Call from Hell

It was just another quiet Friday afternoon. I was letting my call spreads in Netflix (NFLX) run off in the weekly expiration. They were $100 deep in-the-money and I had $1 million in excess margin, so I figured I could just go take a nap. Then, at exactly 1:30 PM EST, a message highlighted in […]

The Market Outlook for the Week Ahead, or Holding the Basketball Down

I have a feeling that the stock market is being impaired, like holding a basketball underwater. While the indexes are at an all-time high, too many stocks have been flatlining since August. Look at your own portfolio and you’ll see what I am talking about. And the deeper you push the basketball down, the stronger […]