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Precious Metals Pounded As US Equities Open

Precious Metals Pounded As US Equities Open

Saudi warns its citizens to leave Lebanon “immediately” and gold and silver are panic-sold… Because stocks must be ramped…   10,000 contracts ($1.3 billion notional) rushed thru in the 2 minutes before the US open…
Featured Stocks In November’s Most Attractive/Most Dangerous Model Portfolios

Featured Stocks In November’s Most Attractive/Most Dangerous Model Portfolios

Recap from October’s Picks Our Most Attractive Stocks (-1.1%) underperformed the S&P 500 (+1.5%) last month. Most Attractive Large Cap stock Lam Research Corp (LRCX) gained 13%. Most Attractive Small Cap stock National Presto Industries (NPK) was up 9%. Overall, 13 out of the 40 Most Attractive stocks outperformed the S&P 500 in October. Our […]
Faltering Thursday – GOP Losses And Trump’s Lack Of China Deal Spook Markets

Faltering Thursday – GOP Losses And Trump’s Lack Of China Deal Spook Markets

Mr. Trump went to China.   That’s it, nothing happened. The deal-maker in chief made no deals, though he did take credit for $250Bn in business deals, which were actually the course of our normal trade with China, like $36Bn worth of Boeing (BA) planes, most of which were already part of their existing backlog.  While these transparent […]
Bitcoin Volatility Surging As Price Hits New Record Highs

Bitcoin Volatility Surging As Price Hits New Record Highs

Landing the Big Fish When searching for opportunities in the markets, traders always day-dream about landing that one trade that just takes off and never looks back, landing them a massive, wind-fall profit. Well, one such trade which would have delivered this dream profit would have been to buy Bitcoin at the start of this […]
Negative Divergence In The Gold Stocks

Negative Divergence In The Gold Stocks

After a severe selloff, precious metals have enjoyed a bit of a respite. Corrections are a function of time and/or price. The correction to the recent selloff has been more in time than price. Metals and miners have stabilized over the past nine trading days but have not rebounded much in price terms. Gold has […]
London, France And Dow Facing Reversal Tests

London, France And Dow Facing Reversal Tests

How Europe and France’s stock markets perform can have a huge influence on stocks in the states. The first two charts below look at the FTSE 100 from London and the CAC 40 from France. The FTSE Index trend remains up and no single day action will change that. What does get our attention from a Power of the Pattern […]
November 2017 Initial Unemployment Claims Rolling Average Marginally Improve

November 2017 Initial Unemployment Claims Rolling Average Marginally Improve

Hurricanes Irma and Maria continue to impact claims taking procedures in the Virgin Islands, but Puerto Rico improved. The market expectations for weekly initial unemployment claims (from Bloomberg/Econoday) were 229 K to 242 K (consensus 232,000), and the Department of Labor reported 239,000 new claims. The more important (because of the volatility in the weekly reported […]
Why These 2 Stocks Can Be Unique Assets To Your Portfolio

Why These 2 Stocks Can Be Unique Assets To Your Portfolio

Let’s face it. Valuation is for dummies. Just buy any of the hot tech stocks and you are set for life. After all, millennials expect an average return of 12% over the next five years. Who can blame them when all they have witnessed is this: Source: ClearPath Capital Partners Use the rule of 72 […]
STORE Capital: Warren Buffett Bought 10% Of This Lesser-Known REIT

STORE Capital: Warren Buffett Bought 10% Of This Lesser-Known REIT

Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITs, are a popular way for regular investors to participate in commercial real estate. Generous yields, relatively low volatility, and steady dividend growth can make certain REITs some of the best high dividend stocks for investors seeking retirement income and capital preservation. This is why larger, famous REITs, such as Realty Income (O), […]
Here Are 5 Geopolitical Risk Factors For Oil

Here Are 5 Geopolitical Risk Factors For Oil

​A couple of days ago, we posted something called “The Saudi Purge: What Are The Implications For Oil?” Yes, “what are the implications for oil?” That’s a good question, and it’s one a lot of people are still trying to answer. The gist of that post was that you can’t really try and separate the Saudi purge […]