Richard Russell

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• Fundamentals and Technicals

  Published 02 September 2003 | viewed 3,888 times

  Here is an extract from commentary posted at DowTheoryLetters.com on 30th August 2003: I received an e-mail yesterday from a subscriber who writes (angrily) that…

• Market Comments

  Published 18 August 2003 | viewed 5,059 times

  Here is an extract from commentary posted at DowTheoryLetters.com on 15th August 2003: Not much surprises me these days, not even a blackout of much…

• Escape and Fantasy

  Published 29 July 2003 | viewed 5,011 times

  I spent a lot of time over the weekend hitting the malls, watching the crowds, and noting the prevailing sentiment. The feeling I got was…

• Market Comments

  Published 13 July 2003 | viewed 2,777 times

  I've been looking at financial statistics for half a century, so I seldom gasp when I see a new figure. But I gasped today when…

• Market Comments

  Published 27 June 2003 | viewed 2,533 times

  Fed Chairman Greenspan hugged and puffed and succeeded in creating the biggest hot-air balloon in US history. In September 1999 (bear market signal) the Greenspan…

• Market Comments

  Published 10 June 2003 | viewed 2,966 times

  Slowly but surely the truth is emerging about the US economy and our future. This weekend the truth appeared in both the New York Times…

• Market Comments

  Published 07 June 2003 | viewed 3,001 times

  Guess I'll start the site with today's list of -- "What else is new?" They stopped calling this the "Jobless recovery." Now they're calling it…

• Market Comments

  Published 22 May 2003 | viewed 2,656 times

  The study of the stock market is always a matter of "will it" or "won't it." It's an endless study, because no sooner is the…

• Golden Comments

  Published 06 May 2003 | viewed 3,195 times

  They say that on a surface level life is a comedy, and on a deep level life is a tragedy. I believe it. Along with…

• Market Comments

  Published 16 April 2003 | viewed 2,523 times

  Can you make consistent profits in the markets during a primary bear market? Every day I get flooded with ideas and offers and promotions for…

• Market Comments

  Published 24 March 2003 | viewed 2,965 times

  Quite a week! Following two 90% down-days, on March 17 we got a 90% upside day. Prior to that we saw an important non-confirmation with…

• Market Comments

  Published 16 March 2003 | viewed 3,065 times

  Let's start with my goof of the day. It's the 200-day moving average of the Dow. I don't know where I got my last figures…

• Guideposts

  Published 04 March 2003 | viewed 2,695 times

  The market has been bouncing around above its bear market low for the last five months. Question -- what kind of guideposts, if any, do…

• Market Comments

  Published 20 February 2003 | viewed 2,952 times

  No matter what I write regarding Bush or Washington or politics, I receive a load of angry e-mails accusing me of stupidity, ignorance, prejudice --…

• Bad Omens or 'It can't happen here'--

  Published 02 February 2003 | viewed 2,869 times

  The New York Times was not delivered at my home this morning for the first time in memory. Not a single IPO (initial public offering)…

• Market Comments

  Published 19 January 2003 | viewed 7,995 times

  We are moving ever deeper into the belly of a great primary bear market. For the sake of my new subscribers, let me again describe…