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Mercenary Trader 's Opinion & Analysis
A complete archive of Mercenary Trader 's articles, including current analysis & opinion - Page 7

Now That’s A Divergence
By Mercenary Trader - Sep 24, 2012
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...
Gray Swans And Fat Tails
By Mercenary Trader - Sep 21, 2012
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...
Island Tops May Signal New Attractive Entry Points
By Mercenary Trader - Sep 19, 2012
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...
What Happens After Infinity?
By Mercenary Trader - Sep 18, 2012
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...
The Federal Reserve Is Terrified Of The Tea Party
By Mercenary Trader - Sep 14, 2012
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...
Post-Fed Recalibration
By Mercenary Trader - Sep 14, 2012
VC-Inspired Reflections On QE3
By Mercenary Trader - Sep 13, 2012
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...
Copper’s Message
By Mercenary Trader - Sep 11, 20122
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...
Et Tu, Crudus?
By Mercenary Trader - Sep 06, 2012
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...