"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •168 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 932.60 | -2.00 | -0.21% |
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WTI Crude •48 mins | 70.42 | -0.16 | -0.23% |
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Gasoline •15 mins | 1.939 | -0.004 | -0.21% |
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Ethanol •168 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •168 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 168 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 168 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 10 mins | 73.17 | -0.22 | -0.30% | |
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Natural Gas • 10 mins | 3.492 | +0.118 | +3.50% | |
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Heating Oil • 10 mins | 2.242 | -0.013 | -0.57% |
Erik Swarts
Contributor since: 04 Apr 2011
Biography
Erik is an active trader, who has always taken a broad perspective when approaching the markets.
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Dollar Holler
"I am sitting inside the truck, watching a screen. The truck reels the tool back up out of the hole, slowly - more slowly than…
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Welcome To The Rodeo
Anyone that swims in the market knows that there is always a danger in bringing too much dogma to the table. Anyone that trades with…
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Door #3
At times it may appear as if I randomly piecemeal aspects of historical trading environments together - a piece of 98' here, a dash of…
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The Eye Of The Storm
As hurricane Irene tests our mettle in the northeast this weekend, the markets set their sites on the historically challenging month of September. Will Irene…
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Open Window
I continue to believe that silver is a broken market searching for significantly lower prices. From my perspective, the window for the next leg lower…
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The Usual Suspects
Is it the height of naiveté for me to continue to believe that if the Fed stepped away from additional rounds of quantitative easing here,…
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Panic Mode
Considering the view of the carnage - it's just a matter of semantics for the pundits to debate the historic qualities of the Crash of…
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Uncertainty
Markets can lose their equilibrium from a variety of factors. One of my first notes in March attempted to describe that dynamic in a series…
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1998 Redux - Update
Monday evenings note (see Here) concerning the similarities in market conditions with 1998 is replicating along very similar lines - both in seasonality, price and…
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1998 Redux
Determining your risk footprint as an active market participant is as much an art form as a science these days. Cross currents can develop or…
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Debtageddon
Just like in the cinematic masterpiece that is Armageddon, the rocket (Congress) is about to land on the approaching asteroid (US debt) and blow it…
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Home On The Range
Markets that remain rangebound can be quite frustrating when the time period of the range gets long in the tooth and erratic in its structure.…
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The Achilles Heel
One of the great paradoxes of the post millennium financial construct is the higher the equity markets extend themselves, the greater their vulnerability to monetary…
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Chartcap
Here is the chart recap from my notes this week. Sunday As the market pulled into another week in earning season, all eyes were on…
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Rip Currents
Larger Image You may panic. You could drown. Or you can ride them out through the breakers. Appropriate for the season - the rip currents…
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War Is Hell
It only took two months for the memories to fade. Or perhaps it was just too painful to confront. Trauma works in mysterious ways, especially…
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A Trapped Tape
A funny thing happened on the way to a higher high... The bulls got trapped - again. Larger Image Maybe it will be as fleeting…
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Road To Perdition or Gentrification?
A funny thing happened on the way to a lower low... Europe momentarily suspended reality, dreamed of austerity, embraced calamity and believed in unity. Then…
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'Running' Of The Bulls
The moment I re-read the paragraph - subsequent to publishing, I knew it was misplaced. "You will regret the ambiguity and nonchalance", I thought to…
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A Rising Tide...
A rising tide lifts all boats - is certainly the aphorism of choice looking at the series of correlation studies from the market-data aficionado David…
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