Gold •143 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% | |
Platinum •10 mins | 975.10 | +4.60 | +0.47% | |
WTI Crude •1 day | 71.24 | +1.14 | +1.63% | |
Gasoline •1 day | 2.061 | +0.002 | +0.10% | |
Ethanol •143 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
Silver •143 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
Silver • 143 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | ||
Copper • 143 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | ||
Brent Crude • 1 day | 75.17 | +0.94 | +1.27% | ||
Natural Gas • 1 day | 3.129 | -0.210 | -6.29% | ||
Heating Oil • 1 day | 2.275 | +0.001 | +0.02% |
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Individual investor, trading for a living since 2007, taking a statistical approach in combination with historical market data and addicted to developing market-neutral algorithmic trading strategies.
Fully compliant to historical probabilities and odds (see my last posting: The Trend is Your Friend ... ), major market indices resumed their uptrend after…
The last week has been unique in many respects. The S&P 500 closed out the week ending on December 2, 2011, with a 7.39% weekly…
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The intraday (price based) setup looking for another strong intraday run-up in the markets on Friday, November 11 (see Implications of a Black Candle Today)…
The intraday (buying) opportunity presented yesterday on the blog (see Intraday Opportunity after a Sell-off ) played out nicely today (Thursday, November 10). S&P 500…
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The last (but not least) study for this weekend - promised - , unfortunately another one suggesting a significantly better-than-random chance for at least one…
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www.CartoonStock.com Whatever the fundamental or political news are, or even with historical probabilities and odds (heavily) tilt in favor of lower prices over the short-term,…
www.CartoonStock.com 'Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.' (as quoted in Isms (2006) by Gregory Bergman, p.105) As long as everybody and his grandmother…
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