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007: “Do you expect me to talk?”Goldfinger: “No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!”Friday’s reaction to “Jackson Hole” was superficially bullish. After a very...
MM Comment: The following is courtesy of our legal counsel, Cott Law Group, P.C.On April 5, 2012, President Obama signed into law the Jumpstart our Business Startups Act (“JOBS Act”)....
With the summer officially over, traders are returning to a challenging environment. Equity indices are within striking distance of 52-week highs, having spent the summer grinding higher on incredibly...
Two recent think pieces on China showed a powerful contrast. One of them, titled “China is Okay,” was a bullish puff piece by ex Morgan Stanley guy Stephen Roach. The other, Everything You...
Thurs Aug 30th – Yesterday’s trading confirmed a new and interesting dynamic – accelerated rotation out of multinational blue chips and high quality yield plays, to the mild benefit...
TW reader Gustav writes:Why do traders need to wait on the breakout of a signal bar to enter a trade? What is so magical about it? Why not if you are so convinced about certain price action, to enter...
Consider this article a plea for assistance. Would someone with a PhD in economics, or better yet, deep-level training in Fed Speak, step forward and help this simple caveman trader solve a true...
We’ve been beating the short AUD/USD drum for a while now, but big macro themes can take a while to play out. We have been short the Aussie on and off a few different times over the past six...
Barring an unexpected macro surprise, this looks to be a light-volume trading week with an extra strong portion of meaningless price action as algos push the indices around in the absence of real...
It’s the last week of what has turned out to be an incredibly light-volume summer, with equities quietly grinding higher for months… The blue chip indices are still very close to 52-week...