"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •203 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 973.10 | +2.30 | +0.24% |
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WTI Crude •10 mins | 75.47 | -0.36 | -0.47% |
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Gasoline •12 mins | 2.057 | -0.027 | -1.30% |
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Ethanol •203 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •203 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 203 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 203 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 10 mins | 79.00 | -0.29 | -0.37% | |
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Natural Gas • 10 mins | 3.992 | +0.236 | +6.28% | |
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Heating Oil • 10 mins | 2.482 | -0.076 | -2.97% |
Markets / Other
Why is the Country so Divided?
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Can the Real Estate Boom Continue?
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The Strong Economy Hook!
Traders and investors get into more trouble and make more expensive wrong decisions by following news than for any other reason. So heavily influenced by the news, the majority get…
Bonds or Gold -- Which Market is Wrong?
However, listening to the shills for Greenspan and the Bush Administration, you'd think that under this scenario oil would go back to $25 per barrel and stay there. This is…
Technical Market Report
The seasonal bias for the week after August options expiration is positive when considering the number of up days relative to down days. The average return for the week has…
Financial Markets Forecast and Analysis
The Labor Department reported that the Consumer Price Index fell, that's right, fell 0.1 percent in July. Core CPI, which excludes food and energy - as if they don't matter…
The Real S&P 500
As far as the future is concerned we think it is helpful, in this case, to view the S&P500/gold ratio from a wave perspective because a clear 5-wave pattern --…
Turning Points
All equity markets were in a rally mode and closed the week at their best levels. The action was validated by strongly positive advance/decline numbers throughout the week, and by…
Speculative Finance and Liquidity Bulges
Similar to writing catastrophic risk insurance policies, Contemporary Finance does empower a speculator with the opportunity to enjoy the fruits of receiving large risk premiums, all the while hoping that…
Why Investors Fail
First, let me make this very clear: There is no technical indicator, or even fundamental system, that can tell us when the next bear market rally will begin or end,…
