Category Archive: Finance
GBP/USD Retracement Returns To 38.2% Fibonacci At 1.2750
GBP/USD 4 hour The Members of the British Parliament have approved the Prime Minister’s plan yesterday to organise an early general election on June 8. The vast majority of the Parliament Members approved the motion (522 out of 650) clearing the bar of the two-thirds needed for accepting the plan. The election news did not […]
Ratings Are Yesterday, Data Is Tomorrow
The TV business was once ruled by overnight ratings. Those metrics are becoming less and less meaningful in a world of mobile-first consumers. Online networks such as Netflix and Amazon don’t want or need third-party ratings. They know exactly what is being consumed, by whom, and when. Delivery and analytics are their core competencies. Additionally, […]
The Fed Is Playing, “Pin The Tale On The Elephant!”
The Federal Reserve’s Zero Interest Rate experiment saved the banks and destroyed the retirement plans of many generations. Now they want to “normalize” things. Their solutions are ill timed and risky! When things collapse, President Trump will become a combination of Herbert Hoover and Jimmy Carter – blamed for the catastrophe. Democrats will be cheering, […]
John Burbank Shuts Down His Long-Short Hedge Fund
We almost made it a full month without a prominent hedge fund shuttering – an eternity in an age when ETFs and passive vehicles soak up several billion in capital each day at the expense of “active” managers – and then Bloomberg spoiled the streak when it reported that John Burbank, one of the handful […]
Why Long-Run Theories Of Profit And Accumulation Fall Short
by Philip Pilkington Nothing gets heterodox economists quite so fussed as the long-run theory of the rate of profit. Yet, Keynes did without one altogether and when examined closely there is no way that such a theory can say anything tangible about the real world. In order to lay this out I am going to […]
EUR/USD, GBP/USD And EUR/CAD TA – April 20
EUR/USD intra-day analysis EUR/USD (1.0719): After EUR/USD rose to a one-month higher yesterday; prices retreated pulling back from the highs of 1.0736 to close on a bearish note. With prices above 1.0700, there is strong indication that EUR/USD could remain consolidated above 1.0700 in the near term. The bias remains to the upside above 1.0700, […]
Toward The New Gold-En Era
In the past half a decade, gold prices were fueled by negative rates. Now gold is driven by geopolitical risks, efforts at gold-backed trade and local prices. Not so long ago, the conventional wisdom was that the continued recovery of the US economy would support rate hikes and thus the strengthening of the US dollar, […]
An In-Depth Look At The Precious Metals Complex
Before we look at the charts I would like to thank Sir Plunger for putting on the short oil trade this week while I was recovering from surgery. You won’t find a more thorough and in-depth look at oil than what Sir Plunger offered. And wouldn’t you know it his timing as usual was impeccable. […]
Investment Advisors Aren’t Worth The Money
I had a conversation with a prospective client the other day who called me inquiring as to what we do. I gave him the typical run down that we are a fee-only investment advisor specializing in ETF portfolios. In other words, we provide discretionary management of client accounts using low-cost investment tools. His response {paraphrasing}: […]
E Should You Consider Social Trading CopyFunds?
Every online trader wants to strike it big in the market, yet according to data, the vast majority quit just months after joining this lucrative world of online trading. So, why is that? And is there an antidote to failure? Conventional wisdom dictates that a cautious approach is the best way to do it. If […]
