Adam Hamilton

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• Trading the Relative HUI

  Published 12 September 2003 | viewed 3,835 times

  What a magnificent week for gold-stock investors and speculators! The powerful secular bull markets in both gold and gold stocks continued unabated, defying the legions…

• Gold in Euros and Yen

  Published 05 September 2003 | viewed 5,792 times

  We Americans tend to be quite myopic in our worldviews. The United States of America has been incredibly blessed by God to grow into a…

• Wisdom of Jesse Livermore 5

  Published 29 August 2003 | viewed 4,347 times

  Legendary speculator Jesse Livermore is surely one of the most fascinating characters in all of financial-market history. About a century ago Jesse Livermore blossomed into…

• Japan and US Busts

  Published 22 August 2003 | viewed 5,761 times

  The study of market history is so valued by prudent contrarian investors because we humans collectively never seem to learn from the great financial mistakes…

• The S&P 500 Interim Top

  Published 15 August 2003 | viewed 4,134 times

  Unlike the stupendous fireworks of last summers violent V-bounce, the equity-market action of this summer has been relatively tranquil and serene. Both volatility and volume…

• Trading the Gold-Stock Bull 2

  Published 08 August 2003 | viewed 4,679 times

  The stock markets, and more specifically the collective behavior of their countless participants, never cease to utterly amaze me. While most folks agonize over yesterday's…

• Inflation or Deflation? 2

  Published 01 August 2003 | viewed 7,950 times

  In the perpetually fascinating financial-markets world, it is funny how few things really change. Today, just like any other day in the past few years,…

• S&P 500 Futures CoT

  Published 25 July 2003 | viewed 5,183 times

  Not too long ago, before the explosion of countless exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in recent years, the arena of choice for stock-index speculators was the futures…

• The NASDAQ Echo Bubble

  Published 18 July 2003 | viewed 5,671 times

  Do you remember the amazing days of the tech-stock mania of late 1999 and early 2000? Boy I sure do! I have been interested in…

• Trading the Pure QQQ PCR

  Published 11 July 2003 | viewed 4,805 times

  As we plunge into the second half of this year, the alleged home of the die-hard bulls' fabled Second Half Recovery, one grand question continues…

• Wisdom of Jesse Livermore 4

  Published 03 July 2003 | viewed 4,193 times

  Legendary speculator Jesse Livermore is surely one of the most fascinating characters in all of financial-market history. About a century ago Jesse Livermore blossomed into…

• Trading the NYSE BPI

  Published 27 June 2003 | viewed 5,927 times

  One of the primary reasons I so much enjoy studying the markets and speculating is the thrill and satisfaction of constantly learning. Even though the…

• Trading The Gold-Stock Bull

  Published 20 June 2003 | viewed 5,206 times

  While the echo bubble in general equities booms, fueled by the blundering fools who must have slept through the hard valuation lessons of NASDAQ 2000,…

• Trading the Put/Call Ratio 2

  Published 13 June 2003 | viewed 5,745 times

  Six months ago I wrote an essay called "Trading the Put/Call Ratio" that explored the potential benefits to index speculators of carefully monitoring and sometimes…

• S&P 500 Neckline Challenge

  Published 06 June 2003 | viewed 5,557 times

  As the recent months of financial-market action have yet again proven, there is never a dull moment in the fascinating world of speculation! The powerful…

• Valuation Wave Reversion 2

  Published 30 May 2003 | viewed 6,154 times

  While the popular dueling emotions of greed and fear drive tactical short-term stock-market movements, over the strategic long-term there is no more important or more…

• Trading The Bull/Bear Ratio

  Published 23 May 2003 | viewed 5,439 times

  The financial markets in which speculators ply their trade are exceedingly emotional arenas. Capital is an emotional thing and so many countless hopes and dreams…

• Trading The Relative VIX 2

  Published 16 May 2003 | viewed 5,492 times

  As the US stock markets continued their unnaturally serene and placid trading action this week, I found myself once again contemplating sentiment and volatility. Sentiment,…

• Trading the Gold Bull

  Published 09 May 2003 | viewed 5,497 times

  As the insta-bulls continue to frolic on Wall Street, blissfully oblivious to current valuation and sentiment extremes conspiring to deftly eviscerate their aging war rally,…

• Wisdom Of Jesse Livermore 3

  Published 02 May 2003 | viewed 4,554 times

  Legendary speculator Jesse Livermore is surely one of the most fascinating characters in all of financial-market history. About a century ago Jesse Livermore blossomed into…