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The major indices are at a “follow through or fail” juncture and significantly elevated above their 20-day exponential moving averages. Consensus is building for a shallow pullback, but...
The term “Black Swan” became extremely popular after Nassim Taleb introduced it in his book and the 2008 meltdown graphically illustrated the concept.As it became part of the Wall Street...
At first we were highly annoyed with Bernanke’s actions last week. But on the bright side, from a market perspective, he may have done traders a favor by price-defining various situations and...
Sep 17th – some great stuff via John Hussman’s weekly market comment: …Meanwhile, it is probably worth marking down September 13, 12:30 PM Eastern, S&P 500 1438 as the point...
In what qualifies as a huge understatement, the September 13th FOMC day did not play out as we expected. We overestimated the rational capacity (and perhaps the intellectual honesty) of Fed Chairman...
As you know if you’ve been with us for a while, we believe there are multiple conceptual overlaps between trading, poker and investing -- particularly as it pertains to venture capital...
Let's look at the markets, where the bulls appear to be getting everything they want: QE3 will almost certainly be announced on Thurs (on completion of the FOMC meeting)Apple (AAPL) announced the...
Crude oil and copper are telling very different stories right now.Crude oil is basically drifting sideways, in a manner that does not suggest great confidence in the forward movement of the global...
The global slowdown continues apace, with bellwether FedEx confirming: FedEx Corp. (FDX), operator of the world’s largest cargo airline, projected its first decline in quarterly earnings in...