Trend Letter Updates
The Hormuz Ceasefire Looks Like Good News for Oil. It Isn’t — Not Yet
Don’t Pop the Champagne: Why the Hormuz Ceasefire May Be a Head Fake for Energy Investors When I appeared on This Week in Money on April 2, I warned that a ceasefire headline would trigger exactly this kind of knee-jerk drop in oil prices — and that investors should not mistake it for the all-clear. […]
CORRECTION: Why WTI DID NOT flip above Brent
EDITOR’S NOTE: (April 5, 2026): In a previous version of this article, we reported that WTI had overtaken Brent in price. We were WRONG and fell into a classic “front-month roll” trap. We compared the WTI May contract ($112.06) directly to the Brent June contract ($109.24), creating an optical illusion of an inversion. After a […]
Protected: New Portfolio Opportunity: Establishing a Position in ServiceNow (NOW)
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Beyond the Middle East: Why the US Blockade of Cuba is a Gift to Beijing
While the world remains transfixed by the daily back-and-forth in the Middle East, a much larger global crisis is quietly developing. For investors, the real story isn’t just the headlines from Iran; it is a coordinated ‘stress test’ by Russia and China designed to exploit a uniquely vulnerable moment for the US administration. To understand […]
S&P 500 Breaks Key Support — What It Means for Your Portfolio
Market Pulse | March 14, 2025 If you’ve been watching the markets this week, you’ve probably felt the turbulence. The S&P 500 closed Friday at 6,632 — and for everyday investors, here’s what that number actually means. What happened this week In a video recorded Thursday, I flagged a critical warning sign: the S&P 500 […]
The Silver ‘Great Divorce’: Is the COMEX About to Break?
Silver: A Setup That Often Precedes Potentially Severe Corrections There is a lot of noise right now surrounding the physical availability of silver, and it’s creating uncertainty for investors in both the futures and ETF markets. The silver market is entering a period where price behavior may be driven less by fundamentals and more by […]
How China Is Controlling the Silver Market
To most investors, silver might seem like just a shiny metal for jewelry or coins. But in early 2026, something unusual is happening: the price of physical silver (the real metal you can hold) is moving higher than paper silver prices on big exchanges like COMEX in New York. This could create opportunities for investors. […]
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Trend Disruptors Updates
AI Turning Point ?
Recent news headlines and stories have brought an amazing Artificial Intelligence (AI) app much closer to mainstream than AI has ever been before. ChatGPT was created by OpenAI, a San Francisco based AI development company. OpenAI Inc. is the non-profit parent company of the for-profit OpenAI LP. ChatGPT is still being offered as a free-to-try […]
CHARGING FORWARD – Solid State Battery Technology
Long-lasting, quick-charging batteries are essential to the expansion of the electric vehicle market, but today’s lithium-ion batteries fall short of what’s needed — they’re too heavy, too expensive and take too long to charge. Solid state batteries are a promising technology aiming to solve these issues, but the technology itself has a few problems that […]
Better on the Edge?
Technology trends are constantly and quickly evolving, and part of that evolution is certain technologies catching up to, or leapfrogging others. Such may be the case with Cloud Computing, with large developments already in place, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. The technology continues to grow, and is dominant […]
Martin’s interview on Tokenization
‘Similar to how the internet changed how we do business, decentralized finance and tokenization will change how we will be buy and sell assets.’ – Martin Straith The Trend Letter’s Martin Straith was a guest on Mike Campbell’s Money Talks podcast where he explains in simple terms how tokenization guarantees verification of ownership, and authenticity […]
What about the Metaverse ?
It’s fairly new and it will be a game changer for some, but how much do you know about the Metaverse, and why is it important, as an investor, to know something about it? To start, we can describe what it is: Metaverse – a collective virtual open space, created by the convergence of virtually […]
Paving the way for RPA
The Industrial Revolution took place in the last century, and in this century it is being mirrored by the Technology Revolution, in the sense that jobs are changing, disappearing, or being automated. Artificial Intelligence (AI) can incorporate machine learning (ML) to analyze a job and “think” of the best or a better way to get […]
Can my EV be cable free ?
Many of us are familiar with electrical current induction when we charge our phones on a wireless charging pad. The technology relies on the phenomena of charging a coil of wire with alternating current, producing a magnetic field. An uncharged coil of wire entering that magnetic field will induce an electric current in the uncharged […]