Category Archive: Entertainment
Puttin’ The Hurtin’ On Gold Miners
Tobacco fields. Source: Wikimedia Dear Diary, Friday was only a half-day on Wall Street. US stocks were flat. But gold traders were active – selling gold! The yellow metal lost nearly 1.8% of its value on Friday. And the big precious-metals miner stocks ETF, GDX, plummeted 8.7%. Meanwhile, Thanksgiving was a success in the Bonner household. […]
How Apple Lost One American Airlines In Market Cap In Under A Minute
Earlier today, just after the market open, the one company that everyone had once again piled into, and which as of September 30 was the most popular company in the hedge fund community with at least 175 “smart money” institutional fans… Click on picture to enlarge … based on expectations that with every other stock and asset becoming increasingly […]
How Does 2014 Compare To 1987 And 2007?
ISM Provides A Reference Point In 2007 and 2008, the average reading of the Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) was 48.4; the median reading was 49.9. A PMI reading above 50 indicates that the manufacturing economy is generally expanding; below 50 it is generally contracting. How does ISM’s PMI look […]
Gold Vs. Oil; Fundamental Plus For Winners
Errr, this chart is starting to get hard to ignore isn’t it? It is a gold mining sector fundamental indicator. I have no clue how the jockeys using only nominal charts (i.e. the HUI is in breakdown/crash mode, hold the bearish line) and resolutely short the miners, do it. You can’t use charts in a […]
Covered Call Writing – UVXY Part 2 – The Drama Continues
Last week showed a lesson Covered Call writing using (UVXY) as example showing how you can collect “Rent” without owing property. Mr. UVXY has seen (3) sets of “renters” in the past 30 days collected $4400 in rent from just $22,000 worth of stock …see how in the video lesson. Video Length: 00:10:43
Why The Price Of Oil Is Finally Declining And Why It Will Lead To Disaster
The price of oil has finally started to obey the law. What law is that? The Law of Supply and Demand. Thanks to the US fracking boom that has done this (see chart) to US production, the supply of oil worldwide has outstripped demand since 2012. So why haven’t prices fallen before this summer? And are falling […]
EC Why Gold Is Reversing Higher After Swiss Vote
Despite the junior resource sector being near a major bottom and going through a bear market of epic proportions, I still believe that this may be one of the best times to add to quality positions. Nothing perfects one’s craft in the financial markets like a bear market. In a bear market one has to […]
Gold Jumps Up By More Than $50
The “No” in the Swiss referendum was seemingly the end for gold at first. First, the gold price went from $1,167 to a low of $1,143, but that is where it ended. It was not so surprising that the gold price dropped significantly at the end of last week, because trading is always quite thin […]
Is Leverage And Issue?
“Davidson” submits: Here is the SP500 Intrinsic Value vs. SP500 again. Only ~5% over priced and housing and commercial construction AND financial inst lending have really not begun. So nowhere near the level of leverage which results in severe corrections. What others do is make comparisons to nonsensical patterns. The first is using an avg […]
E Weekly Best & Worst ADRs Report – December 1, 2014
The average return of our best scoring ADRs from 1-year ago (12/2/2013) returned 12.55% in the past year, with no turnover. That generated 1,197 bps of excess to the MSCI EAFE index. The best performers from our list last year include SIG up 72%, SHPG up 62%, IRS up 49%, RDY up 47%, and TTM up 42%. The average […]
