Category Archive: Finance
Target Date Funds As Aid In Portfolio Design
Investors in or near retirement should be aware of portfolio design leading fund sponsors suggest as appropriate Leading target date funds appear to generally have less severe worst drawdowns that a US 60/40 balanced fund The funds have slightly higher yields than a US 60/40 balanced fund Target date funds have underperformed a US 60/40 […]
Signs Of Bullish Hope – Weekly Market Outlook
Despite the bearish start to the week on Monday and a bearish initial response to Friday morning’s employment report for September, the bulls managed to reversal course Friday afternoon to hammer out a big gain for that day and even a small gain for the week. A couple of the key indices even managed to […]
GBP/USD Sees Bear Threats, Targets The 1.5166/33 Zone
GBPUSD: GBP faces downside pressure following its rejection candle print on Friday. This was formed after unsustained rally and the pair looks to weaken further having given away most of its intra day gains during Monday trading session. It looks to take out the 1.5166/33 zone, its strong support. If this occurs, further weakness is […]
Gold The Pending Question
Gold Room Fort Knox QUESTION: Martin, With your recent comments on gold; you seem to be implicitly suggesting people to sell their gold, since there is a good chance for it to bottom-out at a sub-$1000 level. Wouldn’t it make far more sense to hold onto it at least till November? 1) We don’t know for […]
Some Daily Charts
SPX is at its MA 200. Time to bounce to keep this unpleasant chart from becoming ugly like the Dow. Dow is around a short-term trend line but below lateral support. It can bounce but this has technical damage. Uncle Buck was down yesterday as well as the Euro popped (short covering?). Unc […]
Dollar-Bloc Corrects Higher, GDP Underpins GBP
The US dollar is mixed. It is recouping some of yesterday’s losses against the euro and yen but is heavier against the other major currencies. Short-covering in the dollar-bloc that began yesterday has been extended, and sterling was aided by the 0.7% preliminary increase in Q2 GDP. The rout in Chinese equities continued. Although trading was […]
Will Fed Hint At Rate Increase At Wednesday Meeting
The big question hanging in the air this week is whether or not the Fed will officially schedule a date for the interest rate increase which it has been predicting for the last few months. The Fed meets on Wednesday and although the central bank will probably hold policy steady and no definite announcement of […]
US Session Bullet Report – USD On The Back Foot, Gold Looking Weak
It was a volatile session so far, which was mainly driven from the Chinese stock meltdown. Another day, another 8, 5% drop in shanghai making this one of the biggest daily drops ever. EURUSD spiked higher until 1.1112 (two week high) however the rally was contained within its descending channel. EURUSD boost is attributed to […]
Twenty Enduring Posts
Photo Credit: Kat N.L.M. This morning, I looked at the fall in the Chinese stock market, and I said to myself, “It’s been a long journey since the last crash.” After that, I wrote a brief piece at RealMoney, and another at what was then the new Aleph Blog, which was republished and promoted […]
