David Chapman

Union Securities

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• Market Topping!

  Published 02 May 2003 | viewed 3,058 times

  There is an old saying of "Sell in May, and go away". A recent study from Ned Davis Research showed that since 1942 if one…

• The Gathering Storm!

  Published 22 April 2003 | viewed 3,115 times

  The war with Iraq was in the end completed fairly quickly. Of course that was the easy part. The hard part will be trying to…

• The Fall Of Baghdad

  Published 15 April 2003 | viewed 2,930 times

  In the end it was really no contest. After all what would one expect when a first world superpower takes on a third world country…

• 19th Nervous Breakdown!

  Published 08 April 2003 | viewed 3,473 times

  You better stop, look around Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes Here comes your nineteenth nervous breakdown - Jagger/Richards…

• Black Gold!

  Published 31 March 2003 | viewed 3,439 times

  All wars are economic. Despite the pleas of some they usually have very little to do with liberation, democracy or weapons of mass destruction even…

• War!

  Published 21 March 2003 | viewed 2,872 times

  The war that has been in the making since at least 2000 is now underway. And with it the world is lurching off into another…

• What's Wrong With Gold Stocks?

  Published 18 March 2003 | viewed 3,741 times

  After peaking in January 2003 gold stocks have been on the skids for the past several weeks. The TSX Gold and Precious Metals Index was…

• Iraqnophobia

  Published 04 March 2003 | viewed 2,919 times

  A new word has appeared in our vocabulary. Iraqnophobia - fear of Iraq or fear of terrorism. Let's be clear. By definition, phobias are IRRATIONAL,…

• Bank Troubles

  Published 11 November 2002 | viewed 2,893 times

  The Fed threw a party and nobody came. They surprised the market with a full 50 basis point cut rather than the consensus 25 basis…

• Gold Correction Nearing End!

  Published 01 November 2002 | viewed 3,259 times

  After a very impressive rise in the first half of the year gold stocks have been going through a prolonged correction since topping in early…

• Relief In Sight?

  Published 01 August 2002 | viewed 3,329 times

  With bearish headlines abounding, the volatility index (VIX) hitting levels not seen since the September 21, 2001 lows and indices hitting some longer term targets…