by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | May 16, 2024 | Indicator Insights
We’ve talked about stock market volatility in the past and how we can use tools like the VIX Index to gauge stock market risk. But what about bond market volatility? Can that be used to call stocks? The answer, according to this week’s indicator, is yes! The...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | May 9, 2024 | Indicator Insights
The famous investor Stanley Druckenmiller once quipped that what really moves the market is liquidity, or the availability of cash, rather than earnings or other traditional factors. Whether that is true or not could be debated, but it does make sense that if...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | May 2, 2024 | Indicator Insights
Let’s take a look at this week’s featured indicator, the global yield curve, and how we use it to figure out whether it’s better to invest in bonds or stick with cash. This indicator’s primary metric is something called the Global Yield Curve Composite....
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Apr 25, 2024 | Indicator Insights
A Recession, or a sustained slowdown in economic growth, is one of the worst things that can happen to the stock market. The problem? Recessions are hard to predict. Hard, but not impossible. We can still get close by assigning a probability to a recession...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Apr 18, 2024 | Indicator Insights
Commodities have been on fire lately. In particular, we’ve seen raw materials like copper, oil, and gold do really well. What’s going on? Well, it appears investors are betting that strong economic growth around the world will continue to boost global demand...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Apr 11, 2024 | Indicator Insights
This week’s indicator is sort of like a tornado siren for the stock market. It produces an alert when market conditions get risky. But unlike a tornado siren, it also gives an alert when conditions get less risky. We call it the Long Exposure Risk Index—or...
