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Social Security And Paid-Up Workers
Americans are living longer and retiring earlier. But how, as an individual or as a country, can you finance a 30-year retirement with a 40-year career? Stanford Professor John Shoven recently visited UCSD and presented some interesting policy suggestions. Probability that a 65-year-old male will live to the age indicated on the horizontal axis as of […]
USD Dollar Play
Time to review the USD dollar. NOTE: readtheticker.com does allow users to load objects and text on charts, however some annotations are by a free third party image tool named Paint.net Investing Quote… ..”Without specific, clear, and tested rules, speculators do not have any real chance of success”.. Jesse Livermore ..“I buy on the assumption […]
ATAC Week In Review: Fear Lower Oil
“Never be afraid to sit a while and think.” – Lorraine Hansberry Large-cap stocks held on to moderate gains as the average stock was flat to down in a week that on the surface looked uneventful, but from a sector standpoint had important movements take place. The Utilities sector, perhaps the most predictive sector of […]
What’s On The Radar Screen In The Week Ahead
The investment climate rests on three legs: the divergence that is characterized by the de-synchronized business cycle, the decline in commodity prices and a slowing of China. Data that underscores these factors appear to have stopped having much significance for investors. At the same time, small changes to perceptions, like the downtick in the University of […]
What The Fed Has Wrought
The chart below might be the most powerful indictment of the Federal Reserve and our corporate fascist empire of debt ever created. Some people don’t get charts. Charts tell a story. This chart tells the story of elitist bankers supporting the agenda of a corporate fascist state, resulting in the gutting of the middle class. […]
Continued Drift
Our Twitter momentum indicator for the S&P 500 Index (SPX) continued to drift this week as the market posted a small gain. It is attempting to turn down, but lack of confidence from the bears on Twitter is holding 7 day momentum up. The StockTwits indicator moved up into what is normally an over bought condition that has […]
E Weekend Report: Utilities, Industrials, And Financials
Top scoring weekly returns: Buy and Hold 1 Year The top scoring sector across our 1,600 stock universe is utilities. Industrial goods and financials also score above average. Consumer goods score in line with the average universe score. Services, healthcare, technology, and basics score below average. The following chart helps visualize score by sector and […]
Over A Barrel
A local craft brewer announced recently that they’re being bought out by Anheuser Busch (BUD) and at first I thought, ‘Cool. Good for those guys.’ But then there was a fairly large customer backlash that got me thinking a bit more about it. Why does everyone get pissed when a company like this “sells out”? […]
Muppets’ Pants Catching On Fire
More and more, Comex precious metal action has the look of a patsy-muppet set-up operation for the parasite guildists to buy low and then conduct a large-scale ramp. In fact, the small speculator Commitment of Traders’ position are at the largest net short position in 15 years. The managed money slinger contingent has remained at around the near-record 80,000 contract […]
View From The Hill: Deflation Shadows Bulls With Disequilibrium In Capital Markets
Deflation is casting a larger shadow over the U.S. equity bull market and I believe that the Fed may be forced to defer raising rates if the U.S. Dollar continues its upward trajectory while weaker G-8 members (Japan, China, and Europe) maintain highly accommodative policies. As the last man standing, the USA is winning by […]
