Markets

Sep 17, 2011 at 15:59

Summary: Long term - on major buy signal. Short term - on mixed signals. Risk management has prevented us from taking on new positions until we have lower risks set…

Sep 17, 2011 at 15:58

Greece continues its deflationary collapse as predicted. The Greek stock market ($ATG) is now down 84% from its late 2007 highs, versus 89% for the Dow Jones in the 1929-1932…

Sep 17, 2011 at 15:56

Being flat is better than getting run over by a freight train, besides we can always find setups, with a little bit of patience, ideas will come together, as long…

Sep 17, 2011 at 09:14

Last weeks 5% rally did not generate many new highs making it look like a counter trend rally. I expect the major averages to be lower on Friday September 23…

Sep 17, 2011 at 09:06

What does alpha mean relative to finance? In short, alpha is a technical risk ratio used in modern portfolio theory.

Sep 17, 2011 at 06:41

The prices of gold and silver shares are derived from the price of their reference metals. The referral method has gone astray, akin to a renegade ETF.

Sep 17, 2011 at 06:40

It has been clear to me for many years that investors tend to put their head in the sand, at times like this, rather than being just a bit -…

Sep 16, 2011 at 19:34

One of these days, the selling required to hedge market protection written may overwhelm the market's capacity to absorb derivative-related selling. We've appeared on the brink of this scenario more…

Sep 16, 2011 at 19:32

You probably know that the purpose of diversification is to spread risk across asset classes. The assumption is that if one asset goes down, the others will be stable or…

Sep 16, 2011 at 16:24

Copper ended August with a bearish outside reversal bar (a higher high, lower low and a close below the previous month's low). This also completed the anticipated bearish setup in…