By Steve Blumenthal December 21, 2016 S&P 500 Index -- 2,267 Posted each Wednesday, Trade Signals looks at several of my favorite stock, investor sentiment and bond market indicators.  Market trends persist over time and stem from changes in risk premiums or the amount of return investors [...]Read More >

September 2, 2016 By Steve Blumenthal Woody Allen closes “Annie Hall” with a joke: This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, ‘Doc, my brother's crazy; he thinks he's a chicken.’  And the doctor says, ‘Well, why don't you turn him in?’  The guy says, ‘I would, but I need the eggs.’ That pretty [...]Read More >

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KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CMG Capital Management Group, Inc. is pleased to announce the adoption of Global Investment Performance Standards (“GIPS”) for investment performance calculation and reporting. CMG has chosen Ashland Partners & Company LLP to verify its GIPS policies and [...]Read More >

CMG was recently mentioned by Leslie Josephs in the Wall Street Journal blog titled, "Stocks, Oil Falling Hard, Again."  See excerpt below. "Concerns about China’s slowing economy may be top of mind for investors, but issues plaguing US companies have a role. Wal-Mart, which sources some goods [...]Read More >

By Steve Blumenthal December 14, 2015  I’ve been warning for some time of a coming default wave in the high-yield market and the importance of staying tactical (flexible).  It appears to be nearing.  Prices on high-yield securities hit a six-year low on Friday.  The decline in oil has caused many [...]Read More >

By Cinthia Murphy November 4, 2015 There’s much soul searching in the financial advice industry these days. What will its future look like? Thanks to a leap in financial technology, largely at the hands of robo advisors, traditional advisors today are faced with a changing relationship with [...]Read More >

10/25/2015 @ 11:17 AM Steve Blumenthal, Contributor CMG Capital Management Group CEO writes about hedging equity exposure in overvalued markets in his latest Forbes article titled Using ETFs And Options To Hedge Equity Exposure In An Overvalued Market. Some excerpts from the piece: "Many [...]Read More >

9/3/2015 @ 12:13PM Steve Blumenthal, Contributor CMG Capital Management Group CEO writes about strategies for this new volatile market in his latest Forbes article titled Welcome To The Opening Round Of The New Bear Market. Some excerpts from the piece: “My view: it’s time to “sell the [...]Read More >

August 19, 2015, 10:26 A.M. ET By Amey Stone CMG Capital Management Group CEO Steve Blumenthal talks to Barron’s “Income Investing” columnist Amey Stone about high yield bonds. Excerpt below from the Barron’s story Pain in High Yield Worsens: "Steve Blumenthal, CEO of CMG Capital Management [...]Read More >

By Aparna Narayanan, Investor's Business Daily 08/03/2015 @ 6:52 PM ET CMG Capital Management Group CEO Steve Blumenthal is quoted in today’s Investors.com story on Japan ETFs. An excerpt from the story: Monetary easing and market-friendly reforms kindled Japan ETFs this year. But one wealth [...]Read More >

7/27/2015 @ 9:23AM Steve Blumenthal, Contributor Steve Blumenthal’s latest Forbes article analyzes signals that point to a high probability of a global recession. An excerpt from the article: Recent events and key economic models point to a high probability of a global recession. Ground zero of [...]Read More >

6/25/2015 @ 1:35PM Steve Blumenthal, Contributor Are Stocks Really Cheap Relative To Bonds? Steve Blumenthal asks in his latest Forbes article. An excerpt from the article: "What looks cheap today becomes not so cheap when rates rise and, as you’ll see, the market is certainly “not cheap.” The [...]Read More >

6/12/2015 @ 10:53AM Steve Blumenthal, Contributor “This is just not normal,” CMG Capital Management Group CEO Steve Blumenthal writes in his latest Forbes article The ‘Bigger Short’ Or How To Play This Crazy Bond Market. “Nearly 90% of the industrialized world economy is presently anchored by zero [...]Read More >

June 5, 2015 11:36 a.m. ET Mike Sciortino, Head of Distribution at CMG Capital Management Group, is featured in the Wealth Adviser section of The Wall Street Journal. Mike talks about how advisors can be more successful by being active, engaged listeners. Here is an excerpt: “The degree to which [...]Read More >