Vince Foster

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• The Ex Ante Factor: Often Early, Never Wrong?

  Published 19 August 2008 | viewed 3,524 times

  Limited Time Offer: Join TTC Online Trading Community! (continue reading for details) As we approach the Labor Day recess and finish off the summer to…

• The Ex Ante: Liquidity Trap Revisited - Will They Take the Bait?

  Published 03 April 2008 | viewed 3,142 times

  March 29, 2008 The 10YR yield closed at 3.44% on Friday only 15bps off the lows of the year and 30bps off the lows set…

• The Ex Ante Factor: BSC - REDUX

  Published 18 March 2008 | viewed 2,954 times

  Saturdays update for TTC members. We typically like to look forward in our weekly commentary as we believe the most important aspect of technical analysis…

• The Ex Ante: Master of Disaster - Revisited

  Published 05 March 2008 | viewed 4,243 times

  Back in mid-December, in Master of Disaster we picked on Citigroup as the bank who brought down Glass Steagall and ironically would be on the…

• The Ex Ante Factor: Equity Exposure

  Published 27 February 2008 | viewed 2,809 times

  This week we continued to chop within the same 50 point range we have been confined to since we bounced off the Soc/Gen lows. That…

• The Ex Ante Factor: The Low Spark of High-Yield Boys

  Published 22 February 2008 | viewed 4,132 times

  The percentage you're paying is too high priced while you're living beyond all your means. And the man in the suit has just bought a…

• The Ex Ante Factor: Endaka

  Published 12 February 2008 | viewed 3,169 times

  Written for members on February 10th. This week dollar bulls and bears had plenty to chew on from Warren Buffett's bearish outlook, somewhat dovish rhetoric…

• The Ex Ante Factor: Another One Bites the Dust

  Published 06 February 2008 | viewed 3,445 times

  From this weekends updates: Financial institutional blow ups are getting larger and seem to be happening with more frequency. The latest debacle at Soc/Gen can…

• The Ex Ante Factor: Bizarro World

  Published 30 January 2008 | viewed 4,096 times

  The week of January 21-25, 2008 will go down in the history books of financial markets and potentially society at large. We witnessed the largest…

• The Ex Ante Factor: Jack Be Nimble

  Published 24 January 2008 | viewed 4,546 times

  Written on Jan 21 for members. Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick Jack Jump Over the Candlestick In An Inverted Risk/Reward Ratio our bottom line…

• The Ex Ante Factor: An Inverted Risk/Reward Ratio

  Published 10 January 2008 | viewed 4,400 times

  Written on Jan 5th for TTC members. Here we are just 3 days into 2008 and the damn S&P has already wiped out all of…

• The Ex Ante Factor: 2008 - A Zero Sum Game

  Published 03 January 2008 | viewed 3,264 times

  This was sent to members on 12/29/07 It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred…

• The Ex Ante Factor: The Master of Disaster

  Published 21 December 2007 | viewed 4,126 times

  Vince's weekend article for members... In 1933, after the greatest asset market bubble in US history, Glass Steagall was enacted to separate investment and commercial…

• The Ex Ante Factor: Follow the Bouncing Banks

  Published 07 November 2007 | viewed 4,817 times

  Members received this update on Saturday Friday, All-Star Legg Mason fund manager, Bill Miller's letter to shareholders got a lot of press due to his…

• The Ex Ante Factor: The Devil and Ben Bernanke

  Published 31 October 2007 | viewed 4,306 times

  Members received this on Oct 28th. In addition to the FOMC meeting, this Wednesday we celebrate Halloween. The most recognizable symbol of Halloween is no…

• The Ex Ante Factor: Psycho Killer: Qu'est que c'est?

  Published 19 October 2007 | viewed 3,628 times

  This update went out to TTC members on Oct 13th. Friday, 10/19/2007, is the 20th anniversary of Black Monday when stock markets around the world…

• The Ex Ante Factor: To the Moon, Alice

  Published 09 October 2007 | viewed 4,716 times

  The following article was sent to members on Oct 6th. What does GOOG have in common with BHP? During the summer meltdown in stocks and…

• The Ex Ante Factor: What has this got to do with monetary policy?

  Published 26 September 2007 | viewed 4,124 times

  "What has this got to do with monetary policy? Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in…

• This isn't Monopoly Money

  Published 20 September 2007 | viewed 5,728 times

  The article below was sent to members on Sunday, September 16, 2007. The updated chart on the right is showing that the Euro has already…