The Rats Keep Pressing The Bar: Two Amazing Stories, One Inevitable Result
Anyone who doubts that the global financial system has run out of (good new) ideas has only to track the recent words and deeds of central bankers and mainstream economists: Slightly-negative interest rates didn’t lead people to borrow more? We’ll go more negative! Buying up all the government bonds didn’t prevent deflation? We’ll start buying […]
Morgan Stanley Pumps Money-Losing Bonds
I rarely bother to make any note at all of the “calls” made by the Big Banks, on precious metals markets, or any others. However, sometimes the nonsense which emanates from these fraud-factories is so extreme and absurd that it requires some sort of acknowledgment (i.e. condemnation). This is one of those cases. Let’s begin […]
Oil Rally Faces Big Test This Week
Business Plans Did Not Include Oil Prices This Low The issues facing the oil industry can be summed up via a quote that recently appeared on Bloomberg: “Asset managers bought the story that we’d have $100 oil forever,” said Tim Gramatovich, chief investment officer with Peritus Asset Management in Santa Barbara. “Bondholders are left holding the […]
Binary Options Trading Opportunities For March 15, 2016
During the course of the session on Tuesday, we get several announcements that could move the markets, including employment numbers out of Europe, the Core Retail Sales numbers coming out of the United States, as well as the PPI number and Empire Manufacturing Index number. Nasdaq 100 breaking out The Nasdaq 100 broke out during […]
Natural Gas Rebounds On Inventory, Weather News
The U.S. Energy Department’s weekly inventory release showed that the decrease in natural gas supplies were in line with expectations. This, together with favorable weather forecasts, helped the commodity rebound off its 17-year lows. But topping 2.4 trillion cubic feet (Tcf), natural gas inventories are still 41% above the 5-year average. As a result, prices […]
EC Is The Oil Correction Over?
The price of oil is seeing its biggest decline today since February 23. The ostensible reason is that Iran once again reiterated it would only consider capping its output after it reached four million barrels a day, its pre-sanction output. Last month, the Saudis and Russia (joined by Venezuela and Qatar) indicated they were prepared […]
Selling Short: A Fools Errand
Retail traders love to sell short. I’m not sure what the appeal is but I’m going to urge you not to do it. I’ve been doing this for a long time and I can tell you that there are only 3 people who ever make any long term gains selling short. One is the professional short […]
Will Polaris Cards Become A Game Changer For AMD Stock?
With graphics card manufacturer NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) recently announcing that it will demo its much-awaited Pascal graphics cards at the company’s GTC conference to be held from April 4-7, chatter has started among AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) investors whether the company’s upcoming Polaris graphics cards will finally allow it to claw back the GPU market share it has […]
4 Outperforming Sector ETFs Over The Past One Month
After a tumultuous ride in January and mid February, the U.S. stocks witnessed the fourth consecutive week of gains on continued signs of improvement in the domestic and international markets. As a result, all the three major indices erased most of the losses made this year, climbing more than 6% over the past one month. […]
Setups To Watch This Week
Here’s a compilation of stocks that I am following this week. There’s a huge chunk of them. But there is also an extremely overbought market that will likely stifle any additional major moves to the upside until these conditions are worked off some. So, like last week, I still want to see these conditions get worked off […]
