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The Bust and the VIX

Jan 24, 2003 at 00:00

As the bust grinds on and increasing amounts of general investors' scarce capital is unceremoniously slaughtered and dispatched to financial hell, speculators monitoring the carnage and taking notes continue to…

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Bear-Market Rally Autopsy 2

Jan 17, 2003 at 00:00

In primary bull markets speculators can trade like investors and do just fine. One diligently searches for undervalued stocks, buys them, and holds on to them until the markets recognize…

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Dividend Valuation Waves

Jan 10, 2003 at 00:00

Woohoo! Our imperial President has dragged himself away from the dangerous game of waging endless foreign wars long enough to throw hardworking Americans a token sop in the form of…

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Trading the NASDAQ Bust 2

Jan 03, 2003 at 00:00

Some speculators will be blessed with truly legendary profits in 2003, while others will watch in horror as the Great Bear continues to eviscerate their trading capital. Our mission as…

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The Bust in Review

Dec 27, 2002 at 00:00

The financial markets of 2002 were utterly dominated by massive strategic trends of an awesome magnitude that almost defied all rational attempts at description. Provocatively however, the seeds of all…

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Behold the Gold Bull!

Dec 20, 2002 at 00:00

The naysayers claimed it would never happen. The Keynesian socialists claimed there was no place for gold in their brave new age of fiat paper. The Wall Street perma-bulls claimed…

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Bear-Market Rally Autopsy

Dec 13, 2002 at 00:00

Sometimes a post-mortem autopsy of the market past yields excellent insights and sometimes it unfortunately merely leaves a bloody mess on the autopsy table. Yet this very Great Bear against…

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Trading The Put/Call Ratio

Dec 06, 2002 at 00:00

Each individual speculator trading deploys his scarce and precious capital into a vast, unforgiving marketplace. These speculators making bets pit their own emotional fortitude and raw intellect against countless other…

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QQQ Options Trading 101

Nov 29, 2002 at 00:00

Speculators make very risky bets on short-term market direction in the hopes of reaping legendary profits if the markets cooperate. They live by the sword and die by the sword,…

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Real Rates and Gold 3

Nov 22, 2002 at 00:00

Real interest rates are simply the "risk-free" interest rates less the rate of inflation. While the label of "risk-free" is not technically true because no investment or speculation is ever…