Erik Swarts

Contributor since: 04 Apr 2011

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• Hi Ho Silver

  Published 05 December 2012 | viewed 0 times

  The rubber band that is the US dollar index continues to extend from its late November hinge. Larger Image Considering that weakness in silver has…

• Have No Fear

  Published 26 November 2012 | viewed 0 times

  "If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor." ~ Albert Einstein As an independent trader, I begin each week by…

• Denial

  Published 21 November 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Larger Image "The steady rise in ETF holdings is encouraging as it relates to the long-term silver outlook. Despite significant gyrations in prices, holdings haven't…

• The Gundlach Reversion/Hedge

  Published 16 November 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Earlier this year, Jeffrey Gundlach presented a number of interesting contrarian pairs trades at the Ira Sohn conference. Six months out, they have done extremely…

• Risk/Reward

  Published 14 November 2012 | viewed 0 times

  As expected, weakness has continued in the equity markets this week. However, based on the NDX/SPX topping comparative that I have been highlighting over the…

• Packed - or Departed?

  Published 10 November 2012 | viewed 0 times

  As momentum, a shifting currency tide and now even sentiment - continues to work against the grain of a slouching equity market structure, many market…

• Sandy's Painful Parable

  Published 04 November 2012 | viewed 0 times

  "Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell…

• Secular Tides

  Published 24 October 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Below are two identical charts contrasting the US dollar index and the large cap/small cap ratio as expressed by the SPX:RUT. For purposes of expression,…

• Knocking on Deflation's Door

  Published 15 October 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Since I began publishing my work last year, I have referenced various versions of the following chart - as rationale to why I follow silver…

• Qualifying the Quantitative

  Published 10 October 2012 | viewed 0 times

  If you've followed my work over the past 18 months, there is a consistent theme towards the US dollar: It's a relative game - global…

• Zen Slap

  Published 08 October 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Don't look now, but after last weeks dramatic divergence in the Aussie and the SPX - everyone suddenly became an expert on the Australian economy…

• A Lucid Confusion

  Published 17 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Perhaps it's the change in seasons - the cool, dry, early autumn air. Or maybe it's just thinking about the Chairman, and the echoes and…

• A Few Questions

  Published 12 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Can Bernanke turn this frown - upside down? When our monetary handlers have finally crossed the last t, dotted the final i and shaken the…

• Sink to New Lows - On Election Day

  Published 04 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  As the 2011 SPX topping model continues to replicate along very similar lines with the Australian Dollar - the end game breakdown is starting to…

• A Body of Evidence?

  Published 26 August 2012 | viewed 0 times

  As the market sets sail into what historically has been the most treacherous month of the year (September) - a number of my analog and…

• Denial

  Published 13 August 2012 | viewed 0 times

  I continue to find the very same behavioral biases that provided prescient contrarians the initial clues (chasing the Greenspan Put - i.e. Moral Hazard) to…

• 98.9%

  Published 03 August 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Anyone who has been following my work over the past three months knows, I have been keeping a close eye on the Aussie as it…

• The Summer Games

  Published 03 August 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Ah - the Summer Games 2012: Gymnastics Track & Field Boxing Cycling Central Banking Sovereign Debting... From my perch, it appears Spain is approaching what…

• The Game

  Published 20 July 2012 | viewed 0 times

  "Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing - the result." -…

• Finding Bernanke - Part II

  Published 29 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Here is an update of the megaphone/inverted head and shoulders note from a few weeks back (see, Here). Considering it was during that summer that…