Category Archive: Finance

Stocks: Thunder Dome

Stocks: Thunder Dome

Well, a full week is upon us, and we enter a period in which we don’t have any damned holidays to interrupt our trading until September rolls around. Looking at the ES, the topping formation is still in the throes of completion. Simply stated, the steady series of lower lows and lower highs must not be violated, and […]
Crude Oil – Monday, July 10

Crude Oil – Monday, July 10

CL completing the head and shoulders with very negative repercussions for the months ahead. Source: INVESTING.com
Oil Shortage Some Day

Oil Shortage Some Day

Believe it or not the globe is headed for an oil shortage. I know many find that hard to believe, especially in this shale crazed world where there is the belief that shale oil will fill all voids, even as investment in oil exploration falls to the lowest level since the 1940s. I am not […]
EUR/USD And GBP/USD Forecast – Monday, July 10

EUR/USD And GBP/USD Forecast – Monday, July 10

EUR/USD The EUR/USD pair spent most of the day on Friday chopping around as the job numbers came out of America, much better than expected. We did bounce from below the 1.14 handle, so that’s a very bullish sign. The candle looks as if the buyers are getting ready to come back in and try […]
If This Is The Big One, ‘You’re Going To Have To See It Here Too’…

If This Is The Big One, ‘You’re Going To Have To See It Here Too’…

The credit market has largely ignored the sovereign yield back-up. If the great crack-up is here, you’re going to need to see it in credit, too. Stay tuned That’s from former FX trader Richard Breslow and it’s an important point. For quite some time, analysts and the commentators who know what they’re talking about have observed that if […]
Morning Call For Monday, July 10

Morning Call For Monday, July 10

OVERNIGHT MARKETS AND NEWS Sep E-mini S&Ps (ESU17 +0.02%) this morning are up +0.12% and European stocks are up +0.42%. Strength in technology stocks is leading the overall market higher with Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia both up over 1% in pre-market trading. European stocks also received a boost on stronger-than-expected German May exports and […]
One Hedge Fund CIO’s Conversation With His Uber Driver

One Hedge Fund CIO’s Conversation With His Uber Driver

In his latest weekly letter to clients, One River CIO Eric Peters shifts his attention away from his two favorite topics of monetary policy and capital markets, to unveil a streak of contrarian skepticism on the topic of “technological disruption”, and in his trademark anecdotal style, present a hypothesis that would be most unwelcome in […]
Monday Market Momentum – Still Movin’ On Up

Monday Market Momentum – Still Movin’ On Up

Nothing seems to matter. Trump’s appearance at the G20 meeting this weekend was universally reviled as one of the worst foreign policy disasters since Chameberlain met with Hitler yet there’s no indication if it in the Futures as we seem to be holding Friday’s pumped-up, low-volume gains – so far.   ABC’s political editor, Chris Uhlmann delivered a […]
USD/JPY Breakout, Gold Breakdown Gaining Pace As Key Week For USD Begins

USD/JPY Breakout, Gold Breakdown Gaining Pace As Key Week For USD Begins

Video length: 00:10:55 After a superficially good, but in reality, an overall mixed June US labor market report on Friday, the US Dollar finds itself posting small gains for the second day in a row as it kicks off an important week. Through the first half of the year, everything that could go wrong for […]
USD/JPY Forms Double-Top At A Critical Level – Break Or Bounce?

USD/JPY Forms Double-Top At A Critical Level – Break Or Bounce?

Dollar/yen continues its upwards move. After a short pause that followed the mixed Non-Farm Payrolls, the pair continues riding the tiger along the upwards support line and hits a major barrier. 114.37 is the cycle high. The level was reached in May and the pair could not advance from there. Two months later, USD/JPY hit a […]