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Warren Buffett: The Traits Which Will Make You Rich

Warren Buffett: The Traits Which Will Make You Rich

Warren Buffett: A Bunch Of Qualities That Will Make You Rich Video length: 00:04:59 Transcript Play one game with me for just a minute and then we’ll get to your questions. I’d like for the moment to have you pretend that I’ve made you a great offer and I’ve told you that you could pick […]
The Stock Market’s Volatility Is Very High. What’s Next.

The Stock Market’s Volatility Is Very High. What’s Next.

What a week for the U.S. stock market. Conventional technical analysis would have you believe that “the world is ending” because trendline support has been broken. We disagree. Trendlines and support/resistances have too many false breakouts and breakdowns. *Let’s analyze the stock market’s price action by objectively quantifying technical analysis. For the sake of reference, […]
High Interest Rates Could Hurt Automakers, Auto Stocks Could Tumble

High Interest Rates Could Hurt Automakers, Auto Stocks Could Tumble

Automakers Could Suffer As Interest Rates Rise Higher interest rates are going to impact many in the U.S. One such victim that shouldn’t be overlooked is automakers. Long-term readers of Lombardi Letter have been warned about it over and over again. There were some sectors that got a boost from historically low interest rates, but as rates […]
Swing Trading Strategies In A Bear Market

Swing Trading Strategies In A Bear Market

In Best Stock Charts this week we discuss our contrarian swing trading strategy which will allow you to profit to the long side in a bear market. Now, are we in a bear market right now? No, but my prediction is that we will soon be in a new bear market. Why? Take a look […]
More Bearish Sentiment Will Create Buying Opportunities

More Bearish Sentiment Will Create Buying Opportunities

Last week’s selling was relentless, with every rally failing quickly, followed by selling. Even the 1.8% gain in the S&P 500 last Thursday was not enough to stimulate more buying, and it dropped back 1.7% on Friday. Worst-hit was the Dow Jones Transportation Average, losing 4.53% for the week. The S&P 500 did not do […]
Gold Price Outlook Tied To Equity Performance, S&P 500 Rebound

Gold Price Outlook Tied To Equity Performance, S&P 500 Rebound

  Fundamental Forecast for Gold: Mixed The rout in US equities continues to spur safe haven demand for the precious metal Equity volatility has shown little sign of abating so gold is poised to remain a beneficiary Bearish RSI and sentiment data muddy the safe-haven asset’s outlook GOLD PRICE RIDES ON EQUITY STABILITY Gold staged another formidable […]
Emerging Markets Dip For 4th Successive Weak: ETFs In Focus

Emerging Markets Dip For 4th Successive Weak: ETFs In Focus

The MSCI emerging market index has plummeted 23% since reaching this year’s high on Jan. 26. For the week ended Oct 18, it fell for the fourth successive week following the release of the Fed Minutes. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting was held on Sep 25-26. The Fed has already hiked rates thrice […]
USD/CAD Forecast Oct. 29 – Nov. 2 – Canadian Dollar Hardly Weathers The Storm, Jobs Closely Watched

USD/CAD Forecast Oct. 29 – Nov. 2 – Canadian Dollar Hardly Weathers The Storm, Jobs Closely Watched

Dollar/CAD dropped on the hawkish rate hike by the BOC but then climbed up as the greenback gained fresh strength. What’s next? The jobs report and GDP stand out. Here are the highlights and an updated technical analysis for USD/CAD. The Bank of Canada raised interest rates as expected. Moreover, they decided to remove the word […]
Visualizing GDP: An Inside Look At The Q3 Advance Estimate – October 2018

Visualizing GDP: An Inside Look At The Q3 Advance Estimate – October 2018

Note: The charts in this commentary have been updated to include the Q3 2018 Advance Estimate released Friday morning. The chart below is a way to visualize real GDP change since 2007. It uses a stacked column chart to segment the four major components of GDP with a dashed line overlay to show the sum of […]
How’s The (All) Weather Portfolio?

How’s The (All) Weather Portfolio?

In the last couple of years the phrase ‘All Weather Portfolio’ has come to be popularly associated with Ray Dalio and Bridgewater Associates. The Bridgewater portfolio is a risk parity strategy which means it tries to balance out the risk taken across multiple asset classes which means it often ends up needing to use leverage to […]