David Reavill

Reading The Financial Markets Q2, 2025

Relatively few investors are day traders, yet most of the technical market indicators are computed daily. This leads to a very myopic perspective — it’s like driving a car with a microscope. You’ll eventually see the oncoming traffic, but it may be after you crash.

What's Up With President Trump's Tariffs?

For over half a century, China has produced items that American consumers want to buy, from early, inexpensive toys and gadgets to today’s high-tech personal computers, smartphones, and advanced equipment and machinery.

What's Up With President Trump's Tariffs?

For over half a century, China has produced items that American consumers want to buy, from early, inexpensive toys and gadgets to today’s high-tech personal computers, smartphones, and advanced equipment and machinery.

What's Up With President Trump's Tariffs?

For over half a century, China has produced items that American consumers want to buy, from early, inexpensive toys and gadgets to today’s high-tech personal computers, smartphones, and advanced equipment and machinery.
 

What's Up With President Trump's Tariffs?

For over half a century, China has produced items that American consumers want to buy, from early, inexpensive toys and gadgets to today’s high-tech personal computers, smartphones, and advanced equipment and machinery.

America And The Chinese Merchant

For over a millennium, the Chinese Merchant has been the most revered and feared force in the Far East. They are revered for their wide array of trade goods and products, but feared as agents of control and subjection. Throughout Southeast Asia, China exerted its political control over countries like Korea and Vietnam by first using humble Merchants to infiltrate each society.

Preparing For The Trade Wars

What is apparent is that the price of many of the products and goods we rely on will have substantially higher costs, resulting from increasing tariffs. Or, in the most extreme cases, it may not be available at all. Potential shortages should be our primary focus.

Why Wall Street Was Bound To Hate Trump's Tariffs (Late Night Edition)

It’s easy for Investment outsiders to underestimate the pressure to perform on
Wall Street. From the largest Mutual or Hedge Fund Manager (with the greatest
AUM) to the lowest regional Stock Broker, the demand to produce solid returns
year after year is intense. It’s the reason many financial professionals hang up
their careers prematurely.

How To Tell The Difference Between A Stock Market Correction And A Financial Crisis

Investors' concern is palpable. This week, stocks declined sharply, especially after Wednesday's rollout of President Trump's Tariff Program. The decline in the NASDAQ Index has been especially pronounced, which, up to now, has been leading the markets to higher prices. However, a careful review of this index shows that this week was merely the exclamation point of an ongoing decline.

Tariffs: The Good, The Bad, And The Unknown

On April 2, 2025, from the White House Rose Garden, President Donald Trump announced the third era of American Tariffs. It was a much-anticipated event, with the global financial world holding its collective breath. Seemingly, no one knew the details of these new taxes on imports.