David Chapman

Industrial Alliance

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

Contact Contributor

• Chart of the Week

  Published 13 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Source: stlouisfed.org In last week's COTW the report centered on the massive growth of the monetary base since the financial crisis broke in September 2008…

• The LIBOR Scandal

  Published 26 July 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Rob Kirby www.kirbyanalytics.com doesn't mince words. Rob likes to dig behind the story and drill down into the numbers to unearth the shenanigans that the…

• Chart of the Week - Looking at Gold From a Different Perspective

  Published 05 July 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Point and figure charts give an interesting and different view than one normally sees with a bar chart. Point and figure charts are rarely used…

• The $289 Trillion Problem

  Published 28 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Two hundred and eighty-nine trillion dollars. An unimaginable amount. That is the total of derivatives outstanding at the top five US bank holding companies as…

• Down, Down, Down? The US Dollar

  Published 14 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Created using Omega TradeStation 2000i. Chart data supplied by Dial Data. If you thought you were looking at a roller coaster you might be right.…

• Debt, Debt, Debt!

  Published 08 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Above is an interesting chart that has been making the rounds on the internet. Oddly I have yet to find the original article that was…

• Could the Global Derivatives Market Tip Over?

  Published 24 May 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Source: Global Research The picture is rather stark. This is a chart shown in an article at Global Research (www.globalresearch.ca) - Financial Implosion: Global Derivatives…

• A JP Morgan Debacle in the Making?

  Published 18 May 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Chart created using Omega TradeStation 2000i. Chart data supplied by Dial Data. It is nigh on impossible to overlook JP Morgan Chase (JPM-NYSE) as the…

• Gold Remains in a Long Term Uptrend!

  Published 18 May 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Chart created using Omega TradeStation 2000i. Chart data supplied by Dial Data. Here are monthly charts of gold denominated in Euros and in US dollars.…

• Chart of the Week - Stifel Nicolaus Cycles

  Published 05 April 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Larger Image The above chart was sent to me by John Johnson, Chief Strategist Davis Rea www.davisrea.com. I thought it sufficiently of interest to share…

• A Default Or Not A Default

  Published 02 February 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Could Greece blow up the US banking system? Well it all depends on what one means by a Greek default as defined by ISDA. Who…

• Forecast 2012 - The 'End Times'!

  Published 05 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Pacbitum - Mayan Ruin, Belize Photo: David Chapman "It's just money; it's made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have…

• Chart of the Week: Gold in a Bear Market?

  Published 18 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Chart created using Omega TradeStation 2000i. Chart data supplied by Dial Data. Whenever one gets a huge washout breakdown day, as was experienced in the…

• Kondratiev is Alive and Well!

  Published 02 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Kondratiev is alive and well. Not literally, of course. Nikolai Kondratiev (sometimes written Kondratieff) died in 1938 in the Russian gulag. So who was he…

• US GDP - Sinking!

  Published 24 November 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Source: www.shadowstats.com The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released its headline US GDP number (2nd estimate) for the 3rd quarter on Tuesday. The number was…

• The Sinking Euro

  Published 03 November 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Chart created using Omega TradeStation 2000i. Chart data supplied by Dial Data. Not surprisingly the Euro is almost a mirror of the US$. The Euro…

• Signs of a Bottom in Gold and Gold Stocks

  Published 05 October 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Chart created using Omega TradeStation 2000i. Chart data supplied by Dial Data. With gold correcting back roughly 16% from its recent all-time highs it sometimes…

• The 9/11 Decade

  Published 22 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  When the airplanes struck the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 (aka 9/11) the stock market had already been falling for over 18 months.…

• Gold in a Bubble?

  Published 08 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Chart created using Omega TradeStation 2000i. Chart data supplied by Dial Data. It seems that every time gold makes an important high followed by a…

• Technical Scoop Chart of the Week

  Published 18 August 2011 | viewed 0 times

  40th Anniversary of the End of the Gold Standard Chart created using Omega TradeStation 2000i. Chart data supplied by Dial Data. Monday, August 15, 2011…