Clif Droke

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• Technical or Fundamental Analysis: Which One Holds the Key to Interpreting the Stock Market?

  Published 18 February 2008 | viewed 4,832 times

  One of the best practitioners of technical analysis of the last 30-40 years, and one of my personal favorites, was Ralph Bloch. Bloch was for…

• "Granville's Golden Rule" versus Conventional Wisdom

  Published 25 January 2008 | viewed 5,647 times

  Market forecaster Joe Granville was a colorful character in what has always been perceived as a staid and conservative business. The great stock market guru…

• Does Copper Lead the Way for Gold?

  Published 14 January 2008 | viewed 3,864 times

  Here's a question many investors have asked in recent weeks, especially given the current divergence between the gold and copper prices. Copper has a history…

• Trends for 2008

  Published 01 January 2008 | viewed 6,088 times

  The year 2007 was marked by pessimism, doom and gloom, and a never-ending fusillade of fear. The mainstream press never tired of hypnotizing into believing…

• Leading Signals for Bonds, Stocks and Gold Stocks

  Published 05 December 2007 | viewed 5,027 times

  After an extraordinary run off the June lows, the bond market has shown the first signs of encountering resistance. The run-up in bond prices has…

• Dow Theory Deception

  Published 02 December 2007 | viewed 5,557 times

  Like a raging inferno engulfing a dry prairie, a rumor has been sweeping the online financial community of late. The rumor concerns the recent low…

• Is the Bull Market Dead?

  Published 29 November 2007 | viewed 5,892 times

  After a rough six weeks, investors are shaking the cobwebs from their heads and reevaluating the stock market's upside potential. What many had assumed would…

• Baby Boomers, Generation X and Social Cycles

  Published 21 November 2007 | viewed 6,544 times

  The eternal debate over the economic future of North America has raged for years and seems to grow more intense every year. On one side…

• Hypnosis and the Trader

  Published 11 November 2007 | viewed 3,951 times

  You've seen it a hundred times. A trader watches a stock move up after making a bottom. The stock zooms past one resistance level after…

• Bubbles or Balloons?

  Published 29 October 2007 | viewed 4,883 times

  "If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead." [Frank…

• A Vulnerable Market, Short-term

  Published 11 October 2007 | viewed 5,830 times

  Earnings season is now upon us and with it comes the expectation of greater volatility as both upside and downside earnings surprises are the norm…

• Danger: The return of ISB Syndrome!

  Published 28 September 2007 | viewed 6,385 times

  A highly infectious virus is spreading like wildfire across the Internet. It has done untold damage to the bank accounts and hard drives of millions.…

• Summer of Fear Coming to a Close

  Published 18 September 2007 | viewed 4,563 times

  It was a hot summer in 2007 - one of the hottest on record. But the summer heat was totally eclipsed by the record amount…

• Investors Hit by Big "Volatility Stick"

  Published 30 August 2007 | viewed 5,887 times

  The year 2007 has proven to be one of the most volatile years in recent memory. You'd have to go all the way back to…

• Deflation to the Rescue

  Published 24 August 2007 | viewed 5,928 times

  Time is the least common denominator of all things, including in the stock market. We'd all be lost if we couldn't look at the clock…

• The Bears Get Sentimental on the Market

  Published 18 August 2007 | viewed 5,140 times

  For a while there this past week it looked as if the bears would be proven correct on their super pessimistic market outlook. It also…

• Psyched out: The Media and Market Bottoms

  Published 12 August 2007 | viewed 4,849 times

  "Pessimism has become an opiate [of the masses]." --David Riesman, The Lonely Crowd I received quite a few e-mails last week asking if I had…

• Panic in the Streets, Fear in the Air!

  Published 02 August 2007 | viewed 2,262 times

  Did you hear that sound last week? That was the collective sound of millions of retail traders and investors screaming in fear and running, not…

• An Examination of the Long-term Kress Cycles

  Published 26 July 2007 | viewed 5,815 times

  Many years ago I was blessed to make the acquaintance of one Samuel J. "Bud" Kress, a stock market cycle expert. Mr. Kress is noted…

• How Big is the Oil Supply Problem?

  Published 22 July 2007 | viewed 4,320 times

  How big of a problem is the oil supply situation? The latest report from the International Energy Agency warns that the world will face an…