The Dogs of the Dow is an investing strategy well-known to retail and institutional investors. In 2025, the strategy produced a return of roughly 19%, beating both the S&P 500 Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA).

​​​​​​​Silver prices are moving fast, but volatility isn’t the real risk. The bigger danger lies in the assumptions investors make about availability, liquidity, and how paper markets behave when delivery starts to matter.

​​​​​​​Every financial crisis generally takes place in three steps. And while there aren’t bright, clear lines of separation between them, each one does have unique characteristics that allow us to get a sense of where things stand in the process.

Stocks entered the year trading at or near record-high valuation extremes. When stocks look richly valued like this, short-sellers take notice.

There is something far more basic, and even mathematical, behind the headlines in Venezuela whose roots lie years deeper, and whose ripple effects will run far longer into an admittedly unknowable yet nevertheless somewhat precarious future.

The crypto market ends the week at a total market capitalization of $3.22 trillion.

The COT currency market speculator bets were overall lower this week as five out of the 11 currency markets we cover had higher positioning and the other six markets had lower speculator contracts.

Day traders and financial institutions may both feel that the GBP/USD is oversold at its current levels, but nervous sentiment early this coming week should be watched.