Erik Swarts

Contributor since: 04 Apr 2011

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• Valentine's Day - the Hangover

  Published 16 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  The thing about divergences.... ...is, there should be enough information in the divergence itself to make an educated decision as to which one will maintain…

• Top Secret - Secular Shifts

  Published 11 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Last spring, the early 1980's drew my attention - primarily because of the comparative price structures of the secular low made in the U.S. dollar…

• Tragedy and the Central Banker

  Published 09 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  "Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve. I would like to say to Milton…

• Low Tide

  Published 06 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  They've chased em' - and they've chased them hard. I tend to shy away from reading too much into the weekly sentiment numbers because for…

• Fractals

  Published 03 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  As a trader, you likely have some comprehension of the study of fractals. Broadly speaking, fractals are entities that have self similarity. Meaning, they appear…

• 2011 - So Went Silver...

  Published 01 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  On any given year the market has chapters and plot lines as thick as any melodramatic soap opera. Less we forget, emotions are the heartstrings…

• Blowing Off

  Published 23 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  For the better part of the past two weeks I have been focused on calibrating and trading the analog study I developed in last Tuesday's…

• Rabbit, Run

  Published 20 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  "You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue." ~ John Updike, Rabbit, Run Here is an intraday chart of the SPX…

• MMT - Update

  Published 19 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Back by popular demand - a video update of the Meridian Market Theory. Here is also an intraday update (~11:30 EST) of the hourly SPX…

• Feeling Groovy

  Published 17 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  After over four months since I compared the current market's price structure to the 1987 crash (see Here and Here) - the analog quietly keeps…

• A Blow-off Top Is Coming

  Published 13 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  As random as their movements may seem on an hourly basis - the market's structure has a message inscribed. They are never random walks -…

• Treasure Your Treasuries

  Published 11 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Analog studies are typically at best a broad delineation of future prices in a comparative market environment. They can at times give a very acute…

• A Return to the Scene of the Crime

  Published 08 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  As if the play by play from our European counterparts wasn't enough to bring back the traumatic memories of 2008 (quite seriously - it has…

• Tis The Season

  Published 01 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  We all knew it was coming - it's that time of year. Conditioned like teenage children on Christmas morning - knowing the illusion of magic…

• A Few Thoughts

  Published 29 November 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Never a dull moment here at the tip of the sword. I try and keep that it mind, in times like these, as inevitably we…

• Meridian Market Theory

  Published 27 November 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Here is a short video update of my Meridian Market Theory. In the previous note that addressed the technical developments and comparisons within the theory,…

• You Say Tomahto I Say Tomato

  Published 23 November 2011 | viewed 0 times

  I typically laugh out loud when I hear a pundit refer to technical analysis as voodoo. Am I offended because it's one of the tools…

• Trapped

  Published 21 November 2011 | viewed 0 times

  "Everything is both simpler than we can imagine, and more complicated that we can conceive." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never a more perfect quote…

• Spain - Careful What You Wish For

  Published 20 November 2011 | viewed 0 times

  "Spaniards voted on Sunday in an election expected to return the country's centre-right Popular party (PP) convincingly to power after seven years of rule by…

• We're Getting Nothing for XMAS

  Published 17 November 2011 | viewed 0 times

  As I have mentioned previously in my earlier notes, bear markets typically finds "The" low with a lower VIX print. Considering the market has traded…