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Daily Commentary
Rick Ackerman’s daily market commentary — blunt, specific, and free of Wall Street spin. Browse the full archive below.
September 6, 2026
Although we used to feature edgy market commentaries in this space, the time and effort spent crafting them is now devoted to making the Rick’s Picks Trading Room an absolutely unbeatable source of timely, profitable ideas for novices and professionals. I must also confess that your editor was deeply tired of having to write regularly […]
Read the full commentary →August 30, 2026
Although we used to feature edgy market commentaries in this space, the time and effort spent crafting them is now devoted to making the Rick’s Picks Trading Room an absolutely unbeatable source of timely, profitable ideas for novices and professionals. Your editor must also confess that he was deeply tired of having to write regularly […]
Read the full commentary →August 16, 2026
Although we used to feature edgy market commentaries in this space, the time and effort spent crafting them is now devoted to making the Rick’s Picks Trading Room an absolutely unbeatable source of timely, profitable ideas for novices and professionals. I must also confess that your editor was deeply tired of having to write regularly […]
Read the full commentary →July 12, 2026
I’m taking an extended break from the daunting challenge of predicting the stock market’s behavior each week as though it were correlated rationally and logically with events in the real world. My weekly commentaries will resume when I am feeling better up to the task. In the meantime, if you need a regular dose of […]
Read the full commentary →May 3, 2026
These weekly commentaries have struggled to make sense of a world in geopolitical chaos but which is nonetheless transfixed by a financial melt-up that cannot end other than disastrously. Still more challenging is predicting the day-to-day effects on a stock market whose behavior is a perfect analog for acute, mass mental illness. By ascending without […]
Read the full commentary →April 26, 2026
Is there a tokenized investment in your future? With so many white elephants to unload, Wall Street’s rep could come calling on you at any time. He will offer you a virtual piece of America’s future, claiming it will grow wealth for your children and grandchildren. However, when you sit down with this cheery fellow […]
Read the full commentary →April 19, 2026
You can hardly blame Trump for playing up the stock market’s spectacular performance whenever anyone challenges the way he is conducting the war, or claims the jihadists are winning. Even in the editorial rooms of the New York Times and Bloomberg, where a virulent strain of Trump Derangement Syndrome still lingers, news editors are finding […]
Read the full commentary →April 12, 2026
It is neither bulls nor bears who move the markets, but crooks, mostly. Spectacular but fleeting rallies draw nearly all of their buying power from panicky short covering that is easily triggered and deftly harvested. I have previously discussed this phenomenon, which is most visible when stocks take unseemly leaps at the opening bell. Although […]
Read the full commentary →April 5, 2026
Did you fade the Dow’s 1100-point rally on Tuesday, or the nearly 500-point follow-through the next day like I told you to? I’d written here a few weeks ago that shorting into strength these days offers the best odds bears have gotten in decades. Stocks had spent four months building an obvious top, and finally, […]
Read the full commentary →March 29, 2026
The war with Iran has put investors in a deepening state of anxiety, since no one can say for sure how things will turn out. Wall Street’s obsessive focus has been on the price of oil, implicitly trusting that the supposed collective wisdom of markets is superior to whatever information we could glean from headlines […]
Read the full commentary →March 22, 2026
Although Trump has achieved many spectacular successes in his second term, he has made two big promises he can’t possibly keep. The first was to bring back affordability to the broad middle class. Anyone who believes this must be living on some planet with an all-powerful ruler who generously provides everyone with low-cost homes, apartments, […]
Read the full commentary →March 15, 2026
My regular commentary will resume next week when I my return from a busman’s holiday on the West Coast. In its place is an excerpt from Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain that holds an epiphany for the way we experience and recall the passage of time. It has been published here before, but this version […]
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