Looking for Income in All the Right Places
Investors and advisors know they can’t depend solely on the old standbys—bonds, high-dividend stocks and cash—to produce income today, and they’re ready to try a new approach. But which one?
Week End Blog – with Sharks, Fertility Rates, Chinese Gravity , and… Greece
Last week I surrendered and dedicated most of my blog to Greece. Perhaps that was under the (unknowingly) naive assumption that Greece would have gone away by now. But, of…
Talking TXT
Similar to texting, real estate can have a language all of its own. The December Properties magazine discusses some of the more common terms.
Stock Market Breadth Not Overly Healthy
Our job as stock market investors is to know where we stand not just on our stocks…but the whole market. My model went to cash on the SP 500 Friday.…
Copper futures crumble on economic uncertainty
Copper futures fall back on worries over Greece and China
3 Niche Technology ETF’s You Don’t Know About and Are Worth Owning
Every day I am more and more amazed by not only the number of ETF's available to investors, but how specific their investment strategies have become. The ETF industry has…
Grexit: Hope For The Worst?
Are we experiencing the beginning of the end for the euro? For roughly three years, it seems as though politicians have been kicking the can down the road, putting off…
Squawk: GREECE TO SEND NEW LETTER WITH FRESH PROPOSALS: EU OFFICAL
GREECE TO SEND NEW LETTER WITH FRESH PROPOSALS: EU OFFICAL
Futures Trading Room
Website Update I have finally completed the update to my Futures Trading Room. Sorry it took me so long, but after the Russian hack I was just too tired and…
Choppy Waters Ahead for Japanese Yen
Monday, April 13, 2015 The Japanese Yen has settled into a very narrow trading range after several periods of volatility over the past few years. The Japanese economy has vacillated…
Playing poker in the Eurozone [2/2]
Andrew Curry writes: In yesterday’s post I looked at the short-run issues about Syriza’s stand-off with Germany and the Eurozone. In this post, I’m going to look at the wider…
Beyond the “Spotlight”
For the Week of April 13, 2015 The Trade Spotlight advisory service applies the GBE trading methodology (buying or selling commodity contracts based on breakouts of chart formations and technical…
Worries About the Looming Fed Hike Spill Over
With the Nasdaq crossing the 5,000 threshold for the first time since the dot-com boom and the broader equity bull market entering its seventh year, many investors are once again…
Nucleus
Looking at Nucleus Software's massive eight years of yawning under performance made me look further back in its history. There is a lot wrong with the company and the company…
Euphoria and Reality in European Stocks
Euro-area stock markets have rebounded as the ECB has launched its QE program. In our view, investors should take a pragmatic approach that aims to capture the gains—but with eyes…
Six years of Central Bank Dominance in Six Charts.
Six years ago, on March 09, we hit the low in stock markets. After five quarters of falling stock prices, the S&P 500 index hit 666 (yes 666), the bottom…
Grading Time
If you are a frequent reader of this blog (and shame on you if you aren’t), you’ll know that each January, one of my first blog entries is a review…
Richard Duncan Multi-Decade Global Depression?
Everyone has an opinion and one should not be swayed in their trading or investing. With that said, Richard Duncan is the author of The Dollar Crisis and The New…
The Dollar Breaking Point
Last week, the Fed released its FOMC minutes, the protocol of the Fed's decision makers, and already it seems to have backfired. While the minutes thoroughly described how FOMC committee…
#SaxoStrats: Selling WTI as rally fades
WTI crude oil has rallied strongly on expectations that production is about to slow, with speculative short positions well down from the record high set three weeks ago. Prompt spreads,…