"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •670 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •14 mins | 1,957.70 | -54.20 | -2.69% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 104.66 | +2.72 | +2.67% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 3.713 | +0.118 | +3.28% |
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Ethanol •670 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •670 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 670 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 670 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 113.51 | +5.34 | +4.94% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 2.852 | +0.072 | +2.59% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 4.033 | +0.086 | +2.18% |
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A Pretty Neat Intra-day Indicator
As an intra-day trend change indicator, it isn't perfect, so we use additional indicators with it. But, even as shown below, it has a pretty neat correlation relative to the…
Government is Too Big to Succeed
Last week, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission kicked off their first round of hearings on the causes of the economic meltdown on Wall Street. The commission is being compared to…
5th Wave of Market Advance is Tiring Out
Markets are at a critical juncture of higher than normal risk levels here. This does not mean we can't trade and make profits on the long side however. What it…
Worry Over the US$ and PIIGS
People expecting the US$ to implode right here right now are simply too early in my estimation. As for five years from now, I will reassess later. There are too…
Sack The Regulators
Be it Wall Street, Greenspan, politicians, money managers, or even homeowners, there are plenty of parties to blame for the financial crisis. However, given that the blame game is still…
Yen's Kamikaze Flight Trajectory
Forget about the flight to the dollar at the peak of the financial crisis: the yen was the ultimate beneficiary. The endlessly quoted unwinding of the carry trade was a…
China, Inc.
In recent years, it seems that China is the new Japan... on steroids. What's more, Wall Street - through famous commodity gurus like Jim Rogers - has got the bit…
Interest Rate Manipulation
Rather than providing businessmen, entrepreneurs and other investors with useful information regarding the overall level of savings, the risk-free interest rate is now dominated by central bank policy and inflation…
China's Most Expensive Export: Price Inflation
As you recall, my take on the deflation vs inflation debate is much less crystal ball-ish than many other pundits on the web. I never was very much into fortune…
Why Warrants of Gold/Silver Companies Outperformed Gold/Silver So Dramatically in 2009
We are in the eye of the storm and when the other side of the vortex engulfs us gold and silver will increase considerably, their associated stocks will go up…
