One Man's Lossby Joseph Russo, Elliott Wave Technology | February 20, 2009Print …is another man’s gain
Commonly referred to by mass media and better known in the financial industry’s perpetual variation of sales-pitches as “investing for the long haul”, prudent SPECULATION on a trade-by-trade basis - regardless of time horizon, is indeed a zero sum game.
Exceptions
Perhaps there is one exception residing amid a grand strategy of core positions.Such exception utilizes hedging tactics whereby the same account holder, expressing his or her largest opinion on a market at one level, is free to deploy smaller opposing hedge positions concurrently in a separate account.
Engaging both sides of the market
At first, it would appear that such a strategy was in effect trading against itself.After all, why not just maintain one big opinion and stick with that?The short answer is assurance.If one suddenly finds oneself in the fortunate position of being substantially “right” in their largest market expression, it is then prudent for one to protect and assure that expression with due diligence. We refer to these larger-tiered expressions of market opinion as Level-I, and Level-II engagement.
Zero Sum vs. the Market
Hedging or trading smaller positions around one’s larger expression serves to assure and enhance profitability while reducing overall exposure to risk.Despite such prudent tactics, on a stand-alone basis, each individual trade vs. “the market” nonetheless remains a zero sum transaction.
Ordered Operations
With core positions clearly defined, protected, and assured, one may then opt to engage in the purity of organic speculative endeavor.Generally taken in proportionately smaller “size”, amid shorter durations, these ancillary trading strategies are pure short-term speculative plays.By design, such operations carry immediate levels of zero-sum risk vs. the market.
Enhance or Destroy
Contingent upon leverage used together with money management considerations, such efforts can smartly enhance or completely destroy the efficiencies enjoyed in Level-I and Level-II accounts.As such, if one attempts to orchestrate speculative enhancement strategy around larger core and hedged positions, they should be certain to attain sound navigational guidance prior to engaging at such levels.
Pure Speculation
We categorize Levels-III, IV, and V as purely speculative and ancillary trading operations.Yes, one may execute these strategies on their own; however, it is preferable that one first have the balance of their longer-term speculative house in order prior to allocating a suitably proportionate percentage of funds toward pure speculation.
Clean House
In bringing one’s financial house to such order, we suggest one should first include a continually rebalanced portion of physical gold/silver as a percentage of one’s dynamic net worth.Doing so provides an additional and critically essential level of assurance to one’s overall financial well being.
Embracing the nature of the beast
If one then elects to engage in pure speculative plays, we suggest doing so methodically, with discipline and resolve.Prior to embarking upon such a journey, one must fully embrace all of the protocol disciplines inherent in whatever strategy might be under consideration.One must also be cognizant that managed losses are part of any short-term speculative endeavor.
Risk
In our view, another item to consider is that short-term trading efforts will require tolerances more closely aligned with a 1:1 risk reward profile vs. the more commonly held 3:1 ratio.Holding to a strict 3:1 ratio profile in real world short-term trading operations will more often than not result in an extremely low win ratio and a high level of trades stopped-out shy of reaching such lofty goals.
Fair is Fair
Although 3:1 trade set-ups do occasionally present themselves and deliver the goods, market logic and balance suggests that if you are willing to extract $1000 in market profits that you should likewise be prepared to risk $1000 in kind.Demanding an unrealistic one-sided expectation of extracting $3000 for every $1000 risked, will likely result in serious disappointment, specifically with regard to shorter-term speculative efforts.
Though there are many sound tactics and strategies to choose from, we will now share a brief summary review of our very own Level-III, IV, and V trading operations.
LEVEL-III
The chart below represents our medium-term LEVEL-III swing-trade strategy.This strategy does not intend to capture movement at every pivot, but instead focuses on low-risk entries, protecting capital, and staying with a newly established trend for as long as such a trend persists.Note how LEVEL-III strategy protocol stays with trend despite sharp counter moves mid-way through the decline.
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LEVEL-IV
The chart below represents our short-term Level-IV trigger strategy.This strategy does not specifically intend to trade with trends, but instead focuses on defining precise short-term entry levels with clearly defined point values and failure zones.One may also use this strategy with our daily or weekly charts for larger duration trades.
Note the immediate “near target capture” on the smaller trade followed by its huge relative drawdown, which marginally exceeded the number of profit points sought prior to eventually reaching its 806 objective.
In contrast, an 18-pt drawdown relative to the larger 773 objective citing 50 target points, translates in hindsight, to a near 3:1 risk/reward ratio.
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LEVEL-V
The chart below represents our extremely short-term LEVEL-V counter-trend strategy.This strategy does not trade with large trends, but instead relies heavily upon trends lasting anywhere from one to three days.This mostly mechanical strategy focuses on defining areas from which to probe specific entry and reversal levels that maintain a constant long or short exposure to the immediate price action at hand.
The (MV) strategy illustrated below is the faster of two approaches designed to express a constant engagement on either side of the market.
Note that this “always in the market” mechanical approach will be heavily taxed with controlled losses amid sustained stretches of overbought/oversold extremes, general sideways short-term price action, and/or during extreme episodes of pronounced and sudden whipsaw reversals.
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Golden Ruleby Joseph Russo, Elliott Wave Technology | February 27, 2009Print Visions of Absolute Wealth
As defined by the most valued currency throughout the history of humankind, an exclusively visual presentation of nearly ALL-THINGS vs. the value of Gold illuminates precisely where absolute wealth and truth reside.
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Are You Ready For This?by Joseph Russo, Elliott Wave Technology | March 6, 2009Print Desperately Seeking Stability
At the worst of the two-year dot.com bust, the NASDAQ registered a 78% peak to trough decline.In the following five-years spanning 2002-2007, though the market came nowhere near reclaiming its former value, it nonetheless posted a 158% five-year trough to peak bull market return.
Casting aside technical’s, given the current set of general fundamentals it is plausible that we may be in the midst of a four-year bear market that can feasibly take the NASDAQ down 64% from its 2007 recovery high, and marginally taking out the 2002 low in process.If such a scenario plays out, we could then anticipate arriving at a sustainable base sometime in the 2011 period.
Thereafter, a four-year bull market could rally the index by over 100% trough to peak into the 2015 timeframe.Such an accomplishment would be another substantial bull market recovery even though the market crest may be well below its 2007 peak.
Following a plausible 100% bull market recovery in the future, does your financial advisor have portfolio contingency plans should another five-year 75% bear market then express itself into the 2020 timeframe?
Did you or your advisor have such contingency assurances in place at the peak of dot.com mania, or at the subsequent failure of the 2007 top?If the answer is no to any of these questions, it is time to take full responsibility, pull yourself up by the bootstraps, get on the ball, and stay there.
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Assurance and Accountability
At Elliott Wave Technology, we maintain and exercise permanent contingency plans for every possible market outcome.Should the above what-if scenario play out, we are prepared to profit from it.Should the market suddenly skyrocket back up to 5000 and beyond, we have similar contingency plans to join in such a party.
There is simply no excuse for any individual or advisor not to get out of the way, or fail to participate in major bull or bear market events. Unless an advisor or manager is unfairly constrained to a fully invested long-only protocol, benchmark comparisons highlighting losses less than those of the broad market do not provide an acceptable level of accountability for failure to take prudential action.
Bottom line - Be Ready for EVERYTHING
At the end of the day, each individual investor is responsible for his or her own funds, and to whom he or she entrusts to manage those funds.The first order of the day should be “do no harm”, meaning that whatever you do, do not lose substantial amounts of money over relevant timeframes. The second order is to grow, protect, and preserve speculative capital in a prudential and consistent manner.
Power to the People
When it comes to the major broad market indices, Elliott Wave Technology is ready for EVERYTHING, are you?Bear in mind, we do not make millions managing funds, but instead are modestly compensated for providing an efficiently organized impartial framework from which self-directed investors can get the job done right by themselves.
Assuring Safe and Profitable Outcomes
In sum, we believe ourselves to be the “Simplicity Experts” in navigation amid broad financial markets.Our well-organized visual approach in chart presentation incorporates a disciplined blend of technical best practices.This presentation framework enables us to translate, organize, and simplify the otherwise complex, and extraordinarily challenging tasks inherent in navigating safely throughout the entire speculative process.The result is our NEAR TERM OUTLOOK, a simple but comprehensive trading publication, which provides clients with prudently actionable speculative guidance amid all time horizons.
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The express focus of Elliott Wave Technology’s Near Term Outlook is to help active traders anticipate price direction and amplitude of broad market indices over the short, intermediate, and long-term.
Communications ‘09:
To more effectively convey dynamic trading conditions relevant to our technical publications; we have recently launched complimentary E-briefings for anyone interested in following our work.E-brief dispatches will summarize current market conditions and tactical trading postures across various time horizons and trading strategies.Those interested can obtain free-inclusion from the sign-up block on our homepage.
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So Went the Dowby Joseph Russo, Elliott Wave Technology | March 19, 2009Print So goes the EMPIRE… With each small victory, we get a little bit closer to winning our country back
Until the last man stands, status central bankers alongside their political and corporate cohorts will defend their collective monopolies until fiat currencies reach one pip north of ZERO if need be.The sad fact remains that the majority of institutions and citizenry are eager to drink from the hyper-spiked cool-aid jug just so that they can “feel better” and have a better psychological outlook relative to the harsh reality of the collective insolvency dilemma imposed by their masters.
March 18, 2009 Declaration of Hyperinflation dictatorially imposed
Is it really a brand new world, or brand new day?To heck with it all, who are we to argue with such plans anyway?
Since it worked so well the last time, let’s all just get crazy wasted out of our minds, and start a bigger, better hyper inflationary ponzi-scheme all over again.What else do we have to lose?
Searching for Survivors amid the RUINS
With the damage fully assessed, the GOLD goes to the PATRIOTIC BEARS in complete and total VICTORY over an intractably flawed financial system.These patriots may soon find themselves holding their noses in joining the shiny-happy-people party of blind ambition in following statist pied pipers in seducing a gullible and strung-out citizenry to drink freely once again from the intoxicating cup of delusion and deceit.
Desperation measures to maintain Monopoly Control will ultimately fail
From the Ruins, a new paradigm will ultimately emerge.This new paradigm will NOT resemble any facsimile of the STATUS CENTRAL BANKS current attempt to resurrect and IMPOSE a super-charged version of the egregiously false paradigm that has created the terminal cancer that presently engulfs the financial sphere.Come on already, from the Alexander Hamilton get-go, they have clearly and repeatedly failed their mandates OUTRIGHT.It is clearly time for ABSOLUTE and RADICAL change.It is clearly NOT a time for bigger and more powerful versions of delusional inefficiency.
True Patriots deplore Empire, trust liberty, and adhere to the just principles of its founding Constitution
The following visual chart collection illustrates 30 of the Empires most elite fallen soldiers illuminating the clarity and depth of total defeat.Where signs of life remain, white flags of surrender wave with frantic incessancy.Help is on the way, his name is Ben, and if you’re still breathing, he will be arriving by helicopter to escort you to triage.
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03/19/2009So Went the Dow
03/06/2009Are You Ready For This?
02/27/2009Golden Rule
02/20/2009One Man's Loss
02/12/2009Risk of Ruin
02/02/2009Five Levels of Engagement
01/27/2009Bridging the Gap
01/20/2009Trigger-Happy
01/12/2009Welcome to Super-Cycle Wave IV
12/16/2008No Way Out, Outraged, and Cautiously Bullish on the Fall of Global Empires
11/21/2008Technical Assessment - US Dollar
10/27/2008Global Contagion (Blowback)
10/20/2008Revisiting the HUI (Gold Bugs Index)
10/13/2008Hope for the Best
10/06/2008Profiting Amid Chaos
09/22/2008Sound Trading Tactics Capture Wild Market Swings
09/15/2008Definitive Guide to Trading
09/09/2008Cash-Out, Start Trading, Or Languish
06/09/2008Big Bang or Bust
06/02/2008Strategic Command and Control
05/28/2008Playing the NDX Like a Fiddle
05/19/2008Transports Hitting All-Time Highs
05/12/2008Spring Break-Down
04/22/2008Facts Are Stubborn Things: Part 3
04/14/2008Facts Are Stubborn Things: Part 2
04/14/2008Facts Are Stubborn Things: Part 1
04/01/2008Cause and Effect
03/10/2008"V" for Vendetta
03/03/2008Epic Paradigm Shift Looms
02/19/2008Bulls on Defense
02/04/2008High-Jinks, Mayhem, House-cleaning, and a Look Across the Pond
01/27/2008Orchestrating a Bottom?
01/22/2008The Song Remains the Same
01/14/2008Price-Action Rules
12/30/20072008 Resolved
11/12/2007The Trading Game
10/21/2007Opportunity Knocks
10/07/2007A Run for the Money
09/10/2007Hope Floats: Fear Still Distant
09/04/2007The Willshire 5000 Revisited
08/20/2007Refueling Psychotic-Optimism
08/11/2007Ponzi-Regimes to the Rescue
08/04/2007Volatility Delivers Wake-Up Call to Financial Sphere
07/29/2007Mitigating Collateral Damage
07/20/2007The S&P Vibrating at Critical Mass
07/02/2007Erratic Range-Bound Trade
06/18/2007Runaway Bull?
06/10/2007A Little Dip'll Do Ya
06/03/2007June Swoon - Summer Rally
05/21/2007The Raging Bulls
05/07/2007Bullish: Like There's No Tomorrow
04/30/2007Re-Scaling Global Perception
04/23/2007Navigating the HUI (Gold Bugs Index)
04/16/2007Gold Boom / Dollar Bust
04/02/2007Rules of Engagement
03/26/2007Grand Strategy
03/19/2007Trade Like A Spartan Warrior
03/12/2007Navigating the Oil Pits
03/05/2007The Power of Chart Analytics and Price Forecasting
11/15/2006Scaling Perceptions and the Global Equity Boom
09/14/2006Equity Markets Approach Critical Mass
05/22/2006Global Contagion II
04/13/2006Global Contagion
02/08/2006I, Matador . . . and the Taming of the Bull
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http://chart.bigcharts.com/custom/marketwatch-com/chart.asp?type=2&style=223&size=1&symb=XX:1864498&time=5&freq=1SOURCES
yahoo.com
kitco.com
bigcharts.comSilver Futures 1-day
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http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/util.png S&P 500 Index
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/spx.png S&P 400 Mid Cap Index
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/mid.png S&P 600 Small Cap Indexhttp://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/sml.png Dow Jones REIT Index
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/djr.png NASDAQ Compositehttp://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/compq.png any other
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Contact Us US Dollar Indexhttp://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/usd.png10-Year Treasury
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/ust.png 30-Year Treasury
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http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/hui.png Gold Futures
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/gold.png Silver Futures
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/silver.png West Texas Crude Oil
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http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/tran.png Dow Utilities
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/util.png S&P 400 Mid Cap Index
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/mid.png S&P 600 Small Cap Index
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/sml.png Dow Jones REIT Indexhttp://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/djr.pngNASDAQ Compositehttp://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/compq.pngUS Dollar Indexhttp://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/usd.png10-Year Treasury
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/ust.png 30-Year Treasury
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/usb.png THINGS in Long-Term Charts CRB Indexhttp://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/crb.png Gold Bugs Index (HUI)
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/hui.png Gold Futures
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/gold.png Silver Futures
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/silver.png West Texas Crude Oil
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/wtic.png Natural Gas
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http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/xly.png Amex Consumer Staples
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/xlp.png Amex Energy
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/xle.png Amex Financialshttp://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/xlf.png Amex Health
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/xlv.png Amex Industrialhttp://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/ixi.png Amex Regional Bankshttp://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/rkh.png Amex Retail
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/rth.pngAmex Semiconductorhttp://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/smh.png Amex Technology
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/xlk.png Amex Telecom
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/phn.png Amex Utilities
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/xlu.png Volatility Index - New Method
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/vix.png Volatility Index - Nasdaq
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INTERMARKET ANALYSIS OF PAPER & THINGS
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1 & 5-Day Charts 1-Year Charts 1-Year Sector Charts Long-Term Charts Long-Term Sector Charts
GLOBAL MARKETS
1-Year Global Charts Long-Term Global Charts Market MonitorAustralia All Ords Compositehttp://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/aord.pngBrazilian Bovespa Indexhttp://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/bvsp.pngCanadian TSX Venture Comp
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/cdnx.png Canadian TSE Index
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/tse.png Dow Jones Euro Stoxx 50http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/stox5e.png Dow Jones World Stk Avghttp://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/djw.pngEuropean Top 100http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/eur.png French CAC Indexhttp://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/cac.png German DAX Compositehttp://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/dax.png Hong Kong Hang Senghttp://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/hsi.png London Fin. Times Index
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/ftse.png New Zealand SE 50 Index
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/nz50.png Shanghai Composite Index
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/ssec.png Tokyo Nikkei Average
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/nikk.png Canadian Dollar Index
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/cdw.png Euro Index
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/xeu.png Japanese Yen
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/1yr/xjy.png South African Rand
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INTERMARKET ANALYSIS OF PAPER & THINGS
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1 & 5-Day Charts 1-Year Charts 1-Year Sector Charts Long-Term Charts Long-Term Sector Charts
GLOBAL MARKETS
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Canadian TSX Venture Comp
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/cdnx.png
Canadian TSE Index
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/tse.png
Dow Jones Euro Stoxx 50http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/stox5e.png
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Hong Kong Hang Senghttp://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/hsi.png
London Fin. Times Index
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/ftse.png
New Zealand SE 50 Index
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/nz50.png
Shanghai Composite Index
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Tokyo Nikkei Average
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Canadian Dollar Index
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/cdw.png
Euro Index
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/imcharts/longterm/xeu.png
Japanese Yen
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South African Rand
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Frank Barbera Bio & ArchiveFinancial Sense Market Commentator
BIO
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/barbera/images/frankNew.jpg Frank Barbera, CMT is currently the editor of the Gold Stock Technician (GST) Newsletter which originally entered publication in 1993. As editor of the GST Letter, Mr. Barbera employs a technical indicators to bring market timing to bear on the highly volatile gold stocks. Included in last year's widely popular book, Master Traders: Strategies for Superior Returns from Today’s Top Traders, the tools employed by The Gold Stock Technician have been tested going back many years.
In addition to writing the Gold Stock Technician Newsletter, Mr. Barbera has also managed private equity capital for a number of years, most notably for the Los Angeles-based Caruso Fund where we earned in excess of 25% to 30% returns during the last bear market. http://www.financialsense.com/Market/barbera/images/gst_mini.gif In his role as a hedge fund manager, Frank sought to regularly trade precious metals, energy, currencies along with the broad stock market indices. Frank began his careerin the early 1980s working with Financial News Network in Los Angeles and later, as the ‘on air’ analyst for KWHY TV. Frank's technical work on Gold and Gold Stocks is considered among the best in the industry and he has spoken at a number of investment conferences and been quoted widely in the Financial Press. Readers interested in subscribing to The Gold Stock Technician can contact Mr. Barbera via aol.com@email.com?subject=Visitor Comment from FinancialSense.com]email.
OBSERVATIONS ARCHIVES
03/31/2009Tactical Analysis: Establishing the FLLOC (Part 1)
03/17/2009Wonderland: Touring the Upside-Down Room
03/10/2009The Leaky Bathtub Economy Meets the Clutching at Straws Committee
03/03/2009Paddles! * Clear! * Flat Line...?
02/24/2009Global Downside Breakout
02/17/2009No Doubt: The Worse is Yet to Come. Can Protectionism be avoided?
02/10/2009Retailers: Holding the Key Vote?
02/03/2009Signposts of Recession and the Downfall of "Free Trade"
01/27/2009Tepid Markets and More Bad News
01/20/2009The Obama Administration: Confronting an Unprecedented Tsunami
01/13/2009Treading Water and Seeking Muddle-Through Outcomes
01/06/2009Looking Ahead: Will Platinum Bottom in 2009?
12/30/2008Assorted Tidbits
12/23/2008Oil Services in the Trash Bin?
12/16/2008Uncle Ben's B-52's and Outlook 2009
12/09/2008Big Extremes in Bonds and Yen
12/02/2008Tracking the "OFFICIAL" Recession: Will we see a Double Dip?
11/25/2008Small Signs of Change
11/18/2008Upside Reversal as TBTF Oversold Extremes Abound
11/11/2008Seeking Neutral Ground
11/04/2008A Welcome (if only temporary) Return to Stability
10/28/2008Pizza, Bonds, Burgers and Yen
10/21/2008Getting Ready for "The Turn" in the Dollar
10/14/2008The Top 10 Hints of Global Reflation
10/07/2008Key Signals and the CDS Cascade
09/30/2008Financial Upheaval & the Ring of Fire
09/23/2008Pondering the Last Wrench in the Tool Kit: Will RTC(B) contain CDS(R)? We wonder
09/16/2008What Next for AIG and the Markets?
09/02/2008Scoping Out the Climate for the Next BIG Stock Market Top
08/26/2008US Greenback - The Path to Monetization
08/19/2008GSE Woes and More Fed Easing Ahead
08/12/2008Commodity Correction - Coming Into an Important Bottom?
08/05/2008A Word Here, A Word There
07/29/2008Assessing the Calm
07/22/2008Action-Reaction & Parameters of Interest
07/15/2008Numerous Difficulties & Monetary Insurance
07/08/2008GSE's Falling Into the Abyss
07/01/2008Danger: Open Trench
06/24/2008Trouble Ahead for the Four Horsemen and Europe's Not So Sunny Side
06/17/2008Disco Balls, Donna Summer, Pipeline Pressures & the Great Housing Collapse
06/10/2008Asian Markets Rumble: The Plunge Toward Global Recession
06/03/2008Return of the Credit Crisis - Did It Ever Leave? Time to brace for more bad news
05/27/2008Stagflationary Recession Deepening: Retailers Lining Up in the Crosshairs
05/20/2008Battlestations! S&P in Topping Mode
05/06/2008Mad Cow & Economics Mumbo-Jumbo Media Babble
04/29/2008Eternal Constants and the Eye of the Storm
04/22/2008'Oreo Cookies' & the Stock Market
04/15/2008Revisiting Some Radioactive Ideas: What's next for U308? - Part II
04/08/2008Revisiting Some Radioactive Ideas: What's next for U308?
04/01/2008Technical Update: Healthcare Sector
03/25/2008The Economy and Crude Oil
03/18/2008Central Bankers At Work, And the "Dr. Heckyll and Mr. Jive" Syndrome
03/11/2008Iceberg Ahead...SOS!
03/04/2008US Exporting Deflation
02/26/2008The Expanding Menu of Horrors
02/19/2008Decoupling Discredited and Deflation
02/12/2008What Buffett Bounce?
02/05/2008Rotation, Rotation, Rotation
01/29/2008All Eyes on the Fed
01/22/2008Bullish Action in the Bellwethers
01/15/2008Bear Market In Force -- C-YA!
01/08/2008Breakdown
12/18/2007Monetary Policy -- Gravely Compromised
12/11/2007The End of Denial
12/04/2007Marathon Man: Is it Safe?
11/27/2007Financial Upheaval: Building Downside Momentum
11/20/2007Making Stagflation Your Friend
11/13/2007Who's Zoomin' Who?
11/06/2007Banking Crisis -- What Banking Crisis?
10/30/2007Halloween Scariness in the Financial Sector
10/25/2007Stock Market - Update
10/16/2007Energy Update - Part Two: Winter on the Horizon
10/09/2007Energy Update - Part One
10/02/2007Mirror, Mirror
09/25/2007De-Industrialization and the 'Nordstrom's -- Wal-Mart' Economy
09/18/2007Fed's Reckless Bubble Blowing - Part II: Ben Bernanke and the Missing...
09/11/2007The View From 30,000 Feet
09/04/2007The Lull and the Great Inflation-Deflation Debate
08/28/2007China, Commodities, & U308
08/21/2007Quiet Meltdowns and the Money Panic
08/14/2007Revulsion and Discredit
08/07/2007Chasing Rainbows and the Greatest Hits of 1930!
07/24/2007Bearish Divergences Abound
07/17/2007Unforgettable
07/10/2007Finding Good Value in Energy -- Natural Gas
07/03/2007The Top Out Parade
06/26/2007Signs of a Gathering Storm
06/19/2007The Top Ten Signals That Global Stock Markets Have Topped
06/11/2007Technical Update - Key Markets
06/05/2007Will the Real Slim Shady Please Stand Up!
05/29/2007Tempting Fate: The Return of the Bear -- Part II
05/22/2007Tales of a Rolling Boulder
05/15/2007A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That...
05/08/2007AWASH in Liquidity
05/01/2007Sell in May and Go Away?
04/24/2007Several Gauges for Recession
04/17/2007"The Orangey Sky"
03/27/2007Market Trend: "Giant Sideways"
03/20/2007Let the Sunshine In...
03/13/2007Torpedoed by Sub-Prime -- Again
03/06/2007Markets Hit Bottom: But Will It Last?
02/27/2007Tracking the Perfect Storm
02/20/2007Changes on the Margin
02/13/2007Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave
02/06/2007The Home Builders
01/30/2007The Great Credit Bubble: What Could Go Wrong?
01/23/2007Getting Bullish on Oil and Oil Stocks
01/16/2007Don't Worry -- Be Happy!
01/09/20072007: The Return of the Bear
10/05/2006A Major Low in Resource Stocks
08/15/2006Forward-Looking Outlook
08/08/2006The Fed May Not Be Done
08/01/2006Bear Gaining Traction
07/25/2006Bears and Bulls
04/20/2006End of Cycle: Collision Course
10/13/2005What's Ahead for the Energy Bull?
05/03/2005Energy: Is the Wall of Worry Crumbling
Chris Puplava Bio & ArchiveFinancial Sense Market CommentatorPuplava Financial Services, Inc. Fundamental Analyst
Financial Sense Columnist
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/cpuplava/ChrisPuplava.jpg BIO
Chris graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in Biochemistry from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He joined PFS in 2005 and is currently pursuing the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst. Mr. Puplava contributes a bi-weekly Market Observations for Financial Sense, and co-authors “In the Know”—a weekly communication for Jim Puplava's clients only—with other members of the trading staff.
OBSERVATIONS ARCHIVES
04/01/2009Fixed on the VIX
03/25/2009Never Forget, This Will Be a Process, Not an Event
03/18/2009Commodities - Signaling Reflation or Stabilization?
03/11/2009Not Out of the Woods Yet, Not By a Long Shot
03/04/2009"Da Bulls versus Da Bears... Daaaaa Bears"
02/25/2009Myopic vs. Strategic Thinking
02/18/2009Gold, Is the Future Still Bright or Fading?
02/11/2009"YES WE CAN'T"
01/28/2009In the Words of William Wallace: "HOLD... HOLD... HOLD"
01/21/2009Markets Remain in High Risk Posture as Red Flags Abound
01/14/2009Economic Alphabet Soup: Is it a “V,” “U,” “L,” or a “W?”
01/07/2009Priority #1: Risk Management
12/31/2008Precious Metals Update
12/17/2008Turning Japanese?
12/10/2008It's Gonna Take Time & Money
11/26/2008Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Unemployment Worse Than Reported
11/19/2008Risk Management
11/12/2008On the Road to Recovery?
11/05/2008And Then There Were None
10/29/2008What Goes Down Must Go Up
10/22/2008Here Comes the Pain
10/15/2008Secular Sign Posts: The View From 30,000 Feet
10/08/2008Are We There Yet?
10/01/2008Market & Economic Snapshot
09/17/2008Déjà vu? LET'S HOPE NOT!
09/10/2008When the Transmission is Broken, Call a Tow Truck
09/03/2008Be Careful What You Wish For
08/27/2008The Worst Is Yet to Come
08/20/2008Why So Depressed?
08/11/2008Fed Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey Confirms Credit Crisis Isn't Over
08/06/2008The "Recessionistas" Fight Back
07/30/2008There Has Been Blood!
07/23/2008Banking on Foolishness: Financial Spinsters At It Again
07/16/2008Revisiting Ground Zero & the Spreading Tentacles of a Recession
07/09/2008Who Should You Believe?
07/02/2008Don't Forget Newton's First Law!
06/25/2008As Good as it Gets?
06/18/2008The Choking Point?
06/11/2008Everyone's Singing the Same Song
04/30/2008An Inconvenient Adjustment: The Unofficial Official Recession
04/23/2008Energy Bull Market Fundamentals Remain Strong
04/16/2008Show Me the (Commodity) Bubble! - Part II
04/09/2008Show Me the Bubble!
04/02/2008Tipping Points?
03/26/2008Let the Games (Spin) Begin
03/19/2008The "Bottom" Will Remain Elusive
03/12/2008Housing Update: Houston, We Have Lift Off
03/05/2008The Slow Decline of the U.S. Consumer/Economy - Part II
02/27/2008Change We Can Believe In: The Slow Decline of the U.S. Consumer
02/20/2008Retail Reality Check, Again: Wall Street STILL Overreacting
02/06/2008Liquidity is a Coward
01/30/2008A Look at the Q4 GDP Report: Tailwinds Become Headwinds
01/23/2008Why the Current Bull Market in Gold May Surpass the 1970s Bull Episode
01/16/2008Deleveraging & the Case for Stagflation
01/09/2008Health Care Macro Investment Theme: 2008 Update
01/02/2008Markets Start Off 2008 On a Sour Note: Fed remains between a rock & a hard place
12/26/2007Update on Refiners
12/19/2007The Case for Gold
12/12/2007Debunking the Decoupling Theory
12/05/2007Survey Says: Watch Out Below
11/28/2007The Fat Lady Remains Silent: FDIC Q3 Banking Profile Reveals Why
11/14/2007October's Job's Report Is Bogus
11/07/2007Gold's Rise Goes Beyond the Dollar's Demise
10/31/2007Dissecting 3rd Q GDP
10/10/2007Refiner Rebound Ahead
10/05/2007September Employment Rebound Lifts Markets
10/03/2007U.S. Economic Energy Intensity: Why $80 oil hasn't impacted our economy
09/19/2007Fill 'Er Up, Please
09/12/2007The Next Reflation: Where It Will and Will Not Be
09/05/2007Will Financials Be to This Bull Market and Economy What Tech Was to the Last?
08/29/2007Credit Erosion: The Worst Is Yet To Come
08/22/2007Proceed With Caution
08/15/2007Reality Setting In?
08/08/2007Fragile, Handle With Care
07/18/2007Retail Reality Check: Stock Market Melt Up Last Thursday Misplaced
07/11/2007Recent News from Home Depot and Sears Reveals Consumer Retrenchment
06/28/2007Statistical Review of World Energy 2007: A look at British Petroleum's ... Part II
06/27/2007Statistical Review of World Energy 2007: A look at British Petroleum's ... Part I
06/20/2007Industrial Production Release Points Towards Continued Economic Weakness
06/13/2007Interest Rate Rally May Be Over Short-Term, but Ripple Effects...
06/06/2007Wall Street Reconnects With Main Street
05/16/2007Stage Set for Fed Relief?
05/09/2007Sector Valuation Analysis Part II -- 2007 YTD Laggards...
05/02/2007Sector Valuation Analysis
04/25/2007Who's Carrying the Economic Baton? Part II -- The Consumer?
04/18/2007Who's Carrying the Economic Baton? Part I -- The Corporate Sector?
04/11/2007Global Distortions: US Dependency Goes Beyond Energy
04/04/2007Crude Reality: Dependent and Deprived
03/28/2007Inflation Rearing Its Ugly Head? Secular Trend Implications
03/21/2007Consumer Staples & Health Care Set to Have Their Day in the Sun Once Again
03/14/2007Don't Hold Your Breath!
03/07/2007Blue Skies or Rough Waters Ahead, Which Is It? Keeping an Open Mind
02/28/2007Transportation & Other Economic Data Point Towards Continued Economic...
02/21/2007Bad Moon Rising?
02/14/2007A Bird's Eye View of the U.S. Consumer: 7th Inning Stretch or 9th Inning?
02/07/2007Housing Update
01/31/2007Sector Valuation Analysis
01/24/2007A Return to Volatility?
01/17/2007Health Care Macro Investment Theme
01/10/2007Betting on Oil: Opportunity of the Decade?
01/03/2007Markets Start the Year Off With Volatility
12/26/2006Falling Oil Prices Lifts Market
12/19/2006Sector Valuation Analysis
12/13/2006Fed's Decision Well Supported as Economic Slowing Continues
11/29/2006Upward Revision in 3rd Q GDP Lifts Markets
11/15/2006Housing Slowdown Continues Though Consumer Confidence and...
11/02/2006Markets Fail to Rally After Release of More Negative Economic News
11/01/2006Recent 3Q GDP, Construction Spending and ISM Report Point...
10/26/2006Housing & Energy Economic Review
10/18/2006Value Still Lies Within Energy: Disbelief Leaves Room for Modest Multiple Expansion
10/04/2006Natural Gas Inventories and Possible El Niño Winter Analysis
09/20/2006Recent Housing and Inflation Data Support Fed Pause
09/06/2006Housing and Retail Trends Likely to Weigh on Future Employment Growth
08/23/2006Stocks Fall for 3rd Consecutive Day on Weak Housing Data
08/09/2006Tug of War With Inflation and the Economy Likely to Continue...
07/26/2006Running Out Of Fuel
07/12/2006Sixth Largest Trade Deficit in History Seen in May
06/28/2006The Dilemma Facing the Fed: Choosing Between the Lesser of Two Evils
06/14/2006Volatility and Uncertainty Continue to be the Theme
05/12/2006Are the Dow Jones and Gold Approaching Previous Records? ...
05/03/2006Markets Fall From Multi-Year Highs as Strong Economic Reports Fuel Rate Fears
04/27/2006Energy Economics 101 -- The Culprit is U.S.!
04/21/2006Week In Review
04/19/2006The Coming Oil Crisis
04/13/2006Caution Is Warranted!
04/05/2006Is This Time Different? History Says No
03/08/2006Interest Rate Fears Weigh on Markets Despite Falling Oil Prices
02/22/2006Consumer Price Index and Falling Crude Oil Propel Dow to 4 1/2 Year High
01/25/2006The Growth Economy
01/11/2006Today in the Market
12/21/2005Economic Reports
12/07/2005Economic and Market Pulse Continued
11/23/2005Economic and Market Pulse
11/09/2005$100 Oil - Not So Far Fetched
10/26/2005Capitalizing on Peak Oil - Investing In Alternatives
10/12/2005Selling Continues In Markets With Nasdaq and Small Caps Hit Hardest
10/05/2005Stocks Fall on a Slew of Data Released Today
http://www.financialsense.com/images/PFS/pfsgroup.gif 09/28/2005Inflation Fears Supported by Rallies in Oil and Natural Gas...
08/12/2005Markets Close Down on Increasing Trade Deficit & Oil Woes
07/22/2005Unloved and Underowned with Jim Puplava
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Brian Pretti Bio & ArchiveFinancial Sense Market Commentator
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Brian Pretti is the managing editor of ContraryInvestor.com. Contrary Investor is written, edited and published by a very small group of "real world" institutional buy-side portfolio managers and analysts with, at minimum, 20 years of individual Street experience. Our credentials include CFA, CPA and CFP, as well as the obligatory MBA's in Finance. We are all either partners or employees of institutions with at least $1 billion under management.
OBSERVATIONS ARCHIVES
03/27/2009The CFO Nose
03/13/2009Survey Says
02/27/2009The Most Important Messages From the 4Q GDP Report
02/13/2009We've Only Just Begun?
01/30/2009Bench Strength
01/23/2009Who Needs Economists When We Have the Home Builders?
01/16/2009Fair Retails
01/02/2009Homes For the Holidays
12/19/2008The View From the Executive Sweet?
12/05/2008Yield Up Ahead?
11/21/2008If We Make It Through December
11/07/2008The Bigger Picture?
10/24/2008Changing the Frequency
10/10/2008The Other Consumer Confidence Report
09/26/2008Um... Are We Forgetting Something Here?
09/12/2008Fun With Funding
08/29/2008Stool Pigeons
08/15/2008The Amber Waves of Pain?
08/01/2008Doscientos Mes
07/18/2008Elephant Talk
06/20/2008Cash Out Of Luck?
06/06/2008The Many Faces of Inflation
05/23/2008Cool, Clear Water
05/09/2008Slowly I Turned
04/25/2008Phase Dance
04/11/2008Wagging the Dog
03/28/2008Good to the Last Drop?
03/14/2008The Bottom Card
02/29/2008The Far Too Simple Beauty of the Promises We've Made
02/15/2008Fair Retails?
02/01/2008The Last Asset Bubble
01/18/2008Those Twins
01/04/2008Will the Truly Efficient Market Please Stand Up?
12/21/2007The CFO Nose
12/07/2007The "Other" Credit Market
11/23/2007A Lump of Coal?
11/09/2007A Simple Twist of Fate?
10/26/2007Getting Carried Away?
10/12/2007The (Price) Discovery Channel
09/28/2007Contain This
09/14/2007Farewell to ARMs
08/31/2007Just Roll With It?
08/17/2007Stress Management
08/03/2007Going With the Flow?
07/20/2007Rise and Shine?
06/29/2007As Per the Script?
06/22/2007The "State" of Affairs in Mortgage Lending
06/08/2007The Inflation Maize
05/25/2007Bail Bonds
05/11/2007Taking It To the Bank(s)
04/27/2007Deficit Attention Syndrome
04/13/2007Jumping the Fire Lines?
03/30/2007It's Delightful, It's Delovely, It's Deleverage!
03/16/2007Looking Out the Window
03/02/2007Love Triangle?
02/16/2007Davos and Goliath
02/02/2007We're Swimming in Liquidity, Aren't We?
01/19/2007Four More Years?
01/05/2007Homeland Insecurity?
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Tony Allison Bio & ArchiveFinancial Sense Market CommentatorPuplava Financial Services. Investment Advisor Representative
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Financial Sense Columnist
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Tony graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Political Science and Economics and completed his MBA at University of San Diego. Prior to his career in the financial services industry, Tony worked for over a decade in the publishing field, where he both wrote and edited business trade publications, and in advertising. Mr. Allison lives in San Diego with his wife Eva and two teenage children. In his spare time, Tony enjoys golf and mountain biking.
OBSERVATIONS ARCHIVES
03/16/2009A Golden Lining in a Perfect Storm: Will we ever learn the lessons of history?
01/05/2009"Damn the Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead!" Destination: Japan or Zimbabwe?
12/22/2008The Coming Oil Train Wreck: First stop - Mexico?
12/08/2008The Demise of the Middle Class: Early 1970's an historic turning point
11/24/2008A Bridge Too Far: The energy sector will be back, all too soon
11/10/2008The Debt Culture
10/27/2008Uncle Sam Leveraging Up: De-leveraging? Not the US government
10/13/2008The World Is Not Ending: But Jim Rogers may be right
09/29/2008Common Sense and Courage: Lost American Virtues
09/15/2008Disconnection: The US Financial System Morphs Into Wonderland
08/18/2008The Great Oil Bubble? Supply and geopolitical issues will not go away in global recession
08/04/2008Everybody Gets a Trophy: Economic Perils of the NannyState
07/21/2008Buckle Up: With transparency and truth in short supply, caution is warranted
07/07/2008The Politics of Deception: Historian Kevin Phillips on decades of bi-partisan deceit
06/23/2008Retirement: Reality or Mirage? Challenges in a changing world
06/04/2008A World of Scarcity: Investing in long-run trends
05/12/2008Mining Stocks: Looking for their turn in the spotlight
04/28/2008Paper Skyscrapers: The long road to fiscal responsibility
04/14/2008Energy in America: Living in a state of denial
03/31/2008Pedal to the Metal: Precious metals "store of value" in global financial storm
03/17/2008The Year of Living Dangerously: Printing Our Economy Back to Prosperity?
03/03/2008Commodities on Fire: It's More Than Just a Dollar Implosion Story
02/04/2008Stay the Course: The commodity bull market still fundamentally sound
01/07/2008Retirement at Risk: Start the New Year with a Sober Assessment
12/10/2007The Taxman Cometh
11/26/2007A Brewing Storm: Gold Poised to Move in 2008
10/29/2007Something's Got to Give: $90 Oil May One Day Seem Like the Good Old Days
10/15/2007The Boomers are Coming, The Boomers are Coming: Demographic Tsunami is at the Gate
10/01/2007The Cart and the Horse
09/17/2007Warming Up the Helicopters: The Next Re-Flation On the Way?
08/20/2007A Day of Infamy: August 15th, 1971
08/06/2007Sub Prime Blues
07/23/2007Sovereign Wealth Funds: Where Will the Money Flow?
07/09/2007The Fundamental Things Apply...as time goes by
06/25/2007Stay Off the Rollercoaster
06/11/2007Crying Wolf or Crying Uncle
05/14/2007A Sea of Debt
04/30/2007DOW 13,000!! Relatively Underwhelming
04/16/2007Broken Promises: The Baby Boomer's Lament
04/02/2007Inflation: Comparing Apples to Oranges, Smoke & Mirrors Won't Pay Your Bills
03/19/2007The Retirement Trap: a fixed income retirement may lead to a real fix
03/05/2007The Year of the Golden Pig
05/13/2005Winds of Change
04/29/2005Inflation and the Fed: 92 Years Together and No End in Sight
03/31/2005Delayed Gratification-The Case for the Roth IRA
01/27/2005White Noise
12/17/2004The Debt Bomb
11/29/2004A Time of Thanksgiving - A Time of Reflection
11/15/2004HEAVY LIFTING: Challenges Dead Ahead
10/27/2004Semper Paratus with Chris Sumner http://www.financialsense.com/images/PFS/pfsgroup.gif
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Gary Dorsch Bio & ArchiveFinancial Sense Market Commentator
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Gary Dorsch is editor of Global Money Trends, a bi-weekly subscription newsletter and President of SirChartsAlot, Inc. Mr. Dorsch worked on the trading floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for nine years as the chief Financial Futures Analyst for three clearing firms, Oppenheimer Rouse Futures Inc, GH Miller and Company, and a commodity fund at the LNS Financial Group. As a transactional broker for Charles Schwab's Global Investment Services department, Mr. Dorsch handled thousands of customer trades in 45 stock exchanges around the world. From 2000 thru September 2005 he wrote a weekly newsletter called, Foreign Currency Trends for Charles Schwab's Global Investment department. He He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Arizona State University. Gary is also an editorial contributor to FinancialSense.com.
OBSERVATIONS ARCHIVES
03/24/2009Can the Treasury's Ponzi Scheme Lift the Stock Market?
09/09/2008"Maverick McCain" and the Resurrection of the US$
08/13/2008Aussie Dollar Tracking Commodity Markets, Interest Rates
07/31/2008The Arcane World of Commodities & Currencies
05/29/2008Is Crude Oil a "Bubble" Ready to Burst?
05/15/2008Government Inflation Data at Odds With Reality
05/08/2008G-7 Central Bankers Stymied by "Crude Oil Vigilantes"
05/01/2008What's Behind the Slide in Gold and Silver?
04/24/2008US$ Stabilizes as US Interest Rates Bottom Out
04/10/2008The British Ounce Toppled by Housing Woes
04/03/2008Tax Payer Bail-Out Ideas Stabilize US Dollar, Trip Gold
03/13/2008Global "Oil Shock" Rattles World Stock Markets
03/06/2008Fed Rate Cuts Backfire, Lead to Quagmire of "Stagflation"
02/28/2008The US Dollar is Sinking Into the "Stagflation" Trap
02/14/2008Central Bankers Fueling Global Commodity Inflation
02/07/2008Gold Traders See Thru ECB's "Smoke and Mirrors"
01/31/2008Is the Psychotic Stock Market a Replay of 2000-02?
01/24/2008Fed Rate Cuts Can Backfire by Lifting Crude Oil Higher
01/10/2008Fed Chief Bernanke Signals Rate Cut to Rescue Wall Street
01/03/2008A "Head and Shoulders" Top for the Dow Jones Industrials?
12/27/2007"Tricky" Trichet Whipsaws the Euro
12/13/2007G-10 Central Banks Aim to Cap Libor Rates
12/06/2007Behind the Bank of England's Base Rate Cut
11/29/2007The Epic Battle Over Crude Oil and the US$
10/18/2007Global Exodus From US Dollar in Motion
10/11/2007How High Can Shanghai Red-Chips Fly? - Chinese Red-Chips
10/04/2007The Bernanke Put Lifts Aussie Dollar to 18-Year High
09/27/2007Markets Betting on More Fed Rate Cuts
09/20/2007Bernanke Fed Strikes Out: US$ Plunges, Gold Soars, T-Notes Sink
08/30/2007The "Commodity Super Cycle" Stalls Out
08/23/2007Hopes for an Easier Fed Policy Boost the Euro and Copper
07/31/2007Dow Jones Industrials Skating on Thin Ice
06/07/2007Bank of Japan Signals Summer Rate Hike
05/31/2007Have Global Stock Markets Become China Centric?
05/24/2007Guru Greenspan Turns Bearish on Shanghai Red-Chips
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Martin Goldberg Bio & ArchiveFinancial Sense Market Commentator
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Martin Goldberg is a Chartered Market Technician who manages money privately. His stock market commentaries have been found in many financial publications around the world. Martin is also a Professional Civil Engineer, and has a Master's Degree in Environmental Engineering. Martin appears with Ike Iossif on www.marketviews.tv.
Special Note 9/13/07: After today I will be posting the market observation on the third Thursday of each month in order to focus on some other important things. Please visit http://martinmarketreport.blogspot.com. Thank you.
OBSERVATIONS ARCHIVES
03/19/2009In Search of a Higher High
02/19/2009Market Teetering on the Brink
02/04/2009Economic Woes Start with Stock Market
01/15/2009A Bottom and a Top: And Guidelines to Confirm Whether This is True
12/18/2008Significant Long Term Bond Market Action
11/20/2008Any Heroes Out There?
10/02/2008Quietly Hiding Behind Economic Slowdown is Inflation
09/18/2008Deflation, Inflation or Goldilocks
08/21/2008Prognosis for the Labor Day Season
07/17/2008Invest on the Correct Side of the Long Trend
06/19/2008"It's the Speculators"
06/05/2008Market Continues to Trade Multiple Head and Shoulders Reversal...
05/22/2008Bull Market in Trust, Bear Market in Dividend Yields
05/13/2008S&P 500 Analysis
04/17/2008The Monthly Charts Tell Sad Consumer's Tale
03/20/2008If Daily Market Action Can Spoil Your Day...
02/21/2008S&P 500 Intermediate Term Prognosis
01/17/2008CXO Models Are Poor Forecasting Tools: Tic-Tac-Toe Player Attempts Chess, Fails
12/20/2007Quick Technical Take On Gold
11/15/2007Tangible Market Evidence - Consumers Favor Saving Over Cachet: It's the Inflation
11/01/2007Aggressive Portfolio Insurance
09/06/2007Large Financial Institutions' Technical Analysis
08/16/2007Conclusion: Long Term Interest Rates are Heading Higher
08/09/2007Stock Market Corrections Progressively Shorter in Duration
08/02/2007A Wealth of Completed Reversal Patterns Paint Bearish Picture
07/26/2007All the Science I Don't Understand: The Public, Discounting, Volatility, and...
07/19/2007Gold Stocks -- Impending Breakout or Just Another Failure to Launch
07/12/2007Intermediate Term Technical Evaluation of US Broad Line Retailers
07/05/2007Bull Run - US Consumer a Passenger Only
05/17/2007A Young and Rational Trend
05/10/2007Market Sees Consumer Weakness in Some Big Ticket Items
05/03/2007The Nasdaq 100 - Wall Street's Dirty Little Secret
04/26/2007Nasdaq 100 to S&P 500 Ratio Approaches Critical Juncture
04/19/2007Gold Stocks Ready to Surge? Not All Signals Positive, Next Week Critical
04/12/2007The Important Semiconductor Tug of War
04/05/2007Important Long Term Trendlines Threatened
03/29/2007Price and Volume Provides Clues
03/22/2007IBD Follow Through Day Moves Market Into "Confirmed Rally"
03/15/2007Market View Interview: Saturday March 10, 2007
03/08/2007Keep a Jaundiced Eye on the Bond Market
03/01/2007Complacency Not Wrung Out: media Behavior Proves It
02/22/2007Market Behavior a Formula for Complacency: Corrections Short and Sweet
02/15/2007A Short Look at the Volatility Index
02/08/2007Bad Technician Says, "Sell the Dow"
02/01/2007Cups With Handles Move Leading Indices Higher
01/25/2007HUI and the Homebuilders
01/18/2007Don't Call It "Investing"
01/04/2007Institutions Buy Homebuilders, While Insiders Pass
12/28/2006Themes for 2007
12/21/2006The U.S. Stock Market Looks Tired
12/14/2006Put This News Short on Google in a Time Capsule (and Look at Its Chart)
12/07/2006Twin Year-End Rallies
11/30/2006HUI Gold Bugs Index at Critical Stage
11/09/2006The Value of Technical Analysis
10/19/2006Comparative Analysis of Gold Bugs Index Stocks
10/12/2006Bond Market Yields Few Clues
10/05/20067 Dow Dogs
09/28/2006Market Develops Sour Spot
09/21/2006Important Technicalities
09/14/2006Chicken Soup for the Gold Bug's Soul
09/07/2006Storm Clouds Cast Shade on the Rally
08/24/2006Wave Analysis of the Gold Bugs Index
08/17/2006The New Election Rally?
08/10/2006The Stock Market Looks Overvalued: Now It's Technically Weak
08/03/2006While Market Internals Crumble, Is Price Next?
07/27/2006Unhealthy Mix of Technical Factors Abound
07/20/2006Necklines and Support Levels are Upon Us
07/13/2006Technical Impressions
07/06/2006Taking Stock of One's Self
06/29/2006Mid-Cap and NYSE Composite Valuations
06/22/2006Reflections on the American Dream
06/15/2006Enjoy Your Fundamental Analysis -- Don's Forget: Anything Can Happen
06/08/2006Contrary to Past, Recent Market Behavior Suggests Weakness Should Be Sold
06/01/2006US Consumer Playthings Fall Out of Favor: There Must be a Reason
05/25/2006Compelling Market to Watch: Not One for Large Commitments
05/18/2006Momentum of All Types Punished in Spite of Fundamentals
05/11/2006Man Bites Dog - Some Sectors NOT Going Up
05/04/2006Chart Relationships Off the Beaten Path
04/06/2006Today's Market
03/30/2006Thinking Out Loud On Internet Companies
03/23/2006Semiconductors – Lagging Sector Lies at the Crossroads
03/16/2006Technical Analysis of Key Financial Institutions
03/09/2006Wall of Legitimate Worry
03/02/2006A Conspiracy of Paper
02/23/2006Nasdaq 100 Fundamentals Suggest Stock Market Bubble Still Exists
02/16/2006A Bear Market in Integrity
02/09/2006Department Stores -- A Technically Key Sector
02/02/2006Some Markets Even More Overbought Than Precious Metals
01/26/2006BUSINESS; NOT PERSONAL: Interest Rates Heading Higher
01/19/2006A Technical Look at the Transports
01/12/2006Gold Leads Stocks in a Bullish Technical Pattern
01/05/2006Elliott Wave Analysis of a Leading Stock Index: “Dramatic Reversal” Ahead?
12/29/2005Key Homebuilder and Retail Charts to be Resolved Soon
12/22/2005Market Now Home Alone: Predictions for 2005 and 2006
12/15/2005Marty's Mailbag
12/08/2005Buy 'Em Now!
12/01/2005Seasonal Tendencies -- A Decade of Performance of the S&P 500
11/16/2005S&P Forecasts Blue Skies: Sales and Earnings Growth of “7-11” Respectively!
11/10/2005Here It Comes! (The Year End Rally)
11/03/2005Not a Market for Investors and a Tough Market for Traders
10/06/2005Analyst Timing Is Off at Key Market Turning Points
09/29/2005Character of Bond and Gold Markets May be Changing
09/22/2005Say Hello to the Bear Market in Consumer Stocks
09/15/2005The Sky May be Falling!
09/08/2005On Public and Free Market Matters
08/25/2005Will the Low Interest Rates Allow the US Consumer to Spin One More Time?
08/18/2005Important Top Will Be Signaled by Broken Necklines
08/11/2005There Always is a Bull Market Somewhere, but There Never is a Bull Market
08/04/2005Technical Observations About the Current Stock Market Rally
07/28/2005BOOM 41.25…GOOG296.80 …SINA 27.29 …CAKE 35.70 …RIMM 70.01… BOOM 41.25…
07/21/2005Tell Your Fundamentals to be Quiet! “It’s a Technician’s Market”
07/14/2005A Technical Look at the 10-Year Treasury Note - Long, Intermediate, Short Term
07/07/2005They're All Growth Companies!
06/30/2005Next Key Milestone for Consumer Stocks? Christmas Shopping Season 5 Mos. Away
06/23/2005Choose Your Intellectual Expert
06/15/2005Leading and Lagging Sectors: A Look under the Hood of the U.S. Stock Market
06/09/2005Transports Lag in the Intermediate Term
06/02/2005Some Concepts From a Hot Guru on Selling Stocks Short
05/26/2005Market WrapUp for Thursday, May 21, 2009: Sure It Is Sustainable!
05/19/2005Mr. Market Discounts More Debt for the US Consumer
05/12/2005A Bull Market in Indecision
05/05/2005The Crowd and Its Rightness or Wrongness
04/28/2005Sell 'Em All! (Dow Transports Included)
04/14/2005Stock Market Suggests that Homebuilders on Extremely Thin Ice
04/07/2005Markets At Key Fork In the Road
03/31/2005An Intermediate Term Technical Snapshot of Dow Jones Industrials
03/23/2005Beginning of Bear Market of Healthy Correction?
03/17/2005A Technical Look at Important Consumer Stocks
03/10/2005Monetary Deception and Spin Fools the Public - Not the Stock Market
03/03/2005Divergences in the Real Estate Related Stocks: “This Time it Really IS Different”
02/24/2005Make the Bubble Work for You: “It’s a Bull Market"
02/17/2005This Thing Could Run for Awhile: Indices at Critical Short-Term Juncture
02/10/2005Nasdaq 100 Now a Laggard: Trends Suggest Weakness for the Stock Market
02/03/2005Whipped Again Suggests More Life in the Bull & Long-Term Bull Market Views
01/27/2005IPO Wheel Spins Fast Near Major Market Tops
01/20/2005Nasdaq and Cisco at a Critical Junction, Berkshire Acting Well
01/13/2005Inflation: Not Good for Corporate Profits or Stocks and Bad for Business
01/06/2005Market Changing Character: It's Time to Wake Up!
12/16/2004A Morning star for Bonds, Heavy Volume With Little Upside Progress for Nasdaq
12/13/2004Were the Lessons Learned a Few Years Ago the Right Ones?
12/09/2004Bonds Linked to Steroids
12/02/2004Ten Year Note Technical Reversal Suggests Interest Rate Trend Is Up
11/11/2004Is there anything new Under the Sun on Wall Street? (Probably Not)
11/03/2004Stock and Bond Relationships Without All the Noise
10/28/2004What the Transports & Internets Are Telling Us - Planes, Trains and Balloons
10/21/2004Chart Fissures Suggest Something Big is About to Happen
10/14/2004Consumer Cyclical Stocks - Looks Like a Top
10/06/2004Throw Away the Cookbook and Focus on the Big Picture
09/30/2004Invest in Merck and You Might See a Speculative Gain
09/23/2004Impressive Short-Covering Rally Probably Over
08/26/2004Is There a Political Party That is "Good" for Stocks? (And More)
08/19/2004Precious Metals for Dummies - Sector Technical Analysis
08/12/2004A Look Back at the Ganymede Rally - A Secondary Correction, or...
08/05/2004Big Box Retailers -- Buy Their Merchandise, Sell Their Stocks
07/29/2004Stock Market Indicating the End of the Housing Boom
07/22/2004Prediction: Nasdaq Will Not Crash for Awhile (It will see 1,650)
07/15/2004What Is Stock Action of Blue-Chip Company "Paychex" Telling Us?
07/08/2004The Herd of Bullish Stocks is Thinning Out & A Technical Look at the Funeral Sector
07/01/2004How to Manipulate the Stock Market With Only $12 Million Per Day
06/24/2004Stock Market Long View – Is This a New Era? and...
06/17/2004Market Internals Suggest Nasdaq is Far from Healed
06/10/2004Right and Busted (Repost) - New Search for "Up" Follows
06/03/2004Most Recent Nasdaq Rally Fueled by Triple Q Action -- Is Something Fishy?
05/27/2004Revisiting the Technology Generals
05/20/2004Too Many Stores at the Mall, Too Much Optimism at Broad & Wall
05/12/2004Post-Bubble History Suggests Shorting the Primary Downtrend...
05/06/2004Greenspan Fed Fails (Or Do They?) -- Buffett Supports Kerry - Significant
04/29/2004Technical and Anecdotal Evidence Says It Feels and Smells Like a Nasdaq top
04/22/2004Canadian Energy Companies – Technical Analysis Indicates Critical Juncture
04/15/2004Homebuilder and GSE Stocks - Technical Evidence Suggests Top Is In
04/08/2004Speculative Issues in a Speculative Market
04/01/2004Cheers - Bar Room Stock Market Talk
03/25/2004Can the Stock Market Be Propped Up by “Organized Support”?...
03/18/2004The Message of the Stock Market: Economic Recovery on Shaky Ground
03/11/2004The Stock Market Broke on Wednesday
03/04/2004Stop Losses for Plunge Protection? The 1987 Crash Offered Little Warning
02/26/2004Stocks Priced for a New Era 'Will the Era Last to the "Boomers'" Retirement?
02/19/2004Go Ahead, Speculate. But You Should Have a Pocket Full of NASDAQ Puts
02/12/2004Presidential Election Conspiracy Theory
02/05/2004Current Strength in Drugs, Weakness in the Technology Generals
01/29/2004Nobody Needs A Hummer" A Technical Look at Auto-Related Stocks
01/22/2004Corollary to the Peter Lynch Principle – Only Buy If You Can Explain...
01/15/2004Stock Indices Go Parabolic! When Tools Do Not Work
01/08/2004Right and Busted! The Peril of a Stubborn or Emotional Short Seller
12/17/2003Become Rich in the Stock Market –Joe Six-Pack's Guide to the 2004 Stock Market
12/11/2003Is the Economy Fundamentally Sound? 'Yes' Say the Esteemed and...
12/04/2003Could the Stock Market Crash? Everyone Says 'No.'
11/24/2003NASDAQ Showing Technical Weakness
11/20/2003A Questionable Analyst Call on Retailers: "Nothing Has Changed on Wall Street!"
11/13/2003Is Recent Stock Behavior Signaling Holiday Season End to Market Rally?
11/06/2003Reflections and Practical Applications of Dow Theory
10/30/2003Restaurant Stocks Looking Stale
10/23/2003How the US Can Raise $85 Billion and Keep Everyone Happy...
10/16/2003Technical Analysis - Valuable Tool or Misguided Product of 'Beautiful Mind'?
10/16/2003Email Responses to "Is there an economic recovery?"
10/09/2003A Look At The Technology Generals
10/02/2003The Mother of All Bottoms?
09/25/2003Saturday Morning at Soccer Practice
09/18/2003Will Additional Rules Help the Long-Term Investor? A Chartist's Perspective
09/11/2003Stock Market Gurus and Technical Analysis
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Rob Kirby Bio & ArchiveFinancial Sense Market Commentator
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Rob Kirby received his post secondary education at York University in Toronto. Upon completion he worked on an institutional trading desk for most of the 1980s and right up until 1996. Mr. Kirby began writing in 1997 and was involved in a number of entrepreneurial pursuits. In 2002, he went to work for Investor's Group, the largest Mutual Fund Company in Canada until September '04 when he resigned to write about the markets.
OBSERVATIONS ARCHIVES
03/23/2009A Date That Shall Live In Infamy
03/09/2009Underlying Assumptions: A Forensic Review
02/23/2009Failure or Sabotage?
02/09/2009Crime Scene Investigation
01/26/2009Further Forensic Examination
01/12/2009"When", not "If" - Not Even Close
12/29/2008"When", not "If"
12/15/2008Have We Peaked Already?
12/01/2008Shock and Awe at COMEX
11/17/2008Clarity: Shrouded in Double-Speak
11/03/2008Fudging, Fundamentals and the Electoral Cycle
10/20/2008Derivatives Disclosure
10/06/2008If Pigs Could Fly
09/22/2008And the Band Played On
09/08/2008The Stars are Aligning - But For What?
08/25/2008Wake-Up Call
07/28/2008The Engine Room of American Monetary Policy
07/14/200850 Ways to Leave Your GSE
06/30/2008Benedict Benjamin Bernanke
06/16/2008Setting the Record Straight
06/09/2008The Science of Scape-Goating
06/02/2008Fish or Cut Bait
05/19/2008The Next Show to Drop
05/05/2008In Whose Best Interest?
04/21/2008Getting Real
04/07/2008Inflation Revelations
03/24/2008Dubious Deliberations
03/10/2008The World's Worst Kept Secret
02/25/2008Negotiating Curves
02/11/2008An Inverted Pyramid Scheme
01/28/2008Stuff That Doesn't Add Up
01/14/2008Reading Tea Leaves
12/31/2007Invested or Induced?
12/24/2007A Crude Conundrum
12/17/2007Where the Bones Are Buried
12/03/2007The Best Case Yet for Gold
11/19/2007Capitalism: Derailed, Dumbed-Down or Deceased?
11/12/2007Prescient Pronouncements
11/05/2007Musical Chairs at Citibank
10/22/2007Hank's House of Horrors
10/08/2007Inconvenient Truths
09/24/2007A Reversion to the Mean
09/10/2007Show Me the Money
08/27/2007Asset Backed Paper Remains Illiquid
08/13/2007Analysis of the Unfolding OTC Derivatives Melt Down
07/30/2007Rinsing the "Spin" Out of the News Cycle
07/16/2007Bernanke Babbel Analysis
07/02/2007Where We Are, How We Got Here and Where to Next?
06/18/2007Widely Under Reported Last Week
06/04/2007Anecdotal Asides and Questions Begging Answers
05/21/2007The I.M.F. In the News
05/07/2007Derivatives: Glowing Revelations
04/23/2007Blind, Blinder or Blind-Sided?
04/09/2007Prospecting In Your Own Back Yard
03/26/2007Driven To Fudge Numbers
03/12/2007Lost in the Weeds
02/26/2007More Refineries or New Refineries, When and How?
02/12/2007Crude Revelations
01/29/2007Contrary Views on the News
01/08/2007Base Metal Bogie Man
12/29/20062006 - Thanks for the Memories
12/18/2006Santa Clause Is Coming to Town
12/11/2006Fundamental Vs. Technical Analysis and More
12/04/2006Highway Robbery or Tricks at a Trough?
11/27/2006It's All About the Dollar
11/20/2006Don't Believe Everything You Hear
11/13/2006Actions, Reactions and Distractions
11/06/2006Choosing the Right Sport
10/30/2006Inflation for the Nation?
10/23/2006A Blast From the Past and More
10/16/2006Understanding Conflicting Signals
10/09/2006Hedging Bets
10/02/2006October Surprise
09/25/2006Running On Empty
09/18/2006A Delicate Balance: Will They Or Won't They?
09/11/2006To Hedge In a Hand Basket
08/28/2006Prisoners In Our Own Homes Or Hostage to Growth?
08/21/2006Nickel Plated Dominos
08/14/2006The Week in Review
08/07/2006Sage Advice Amid Mid-Summer Snow Jobs
07/31/2006Noting the Notables
07/24/2006Losing Our Cents
07/17/2006Geo Politics Takes Center Stage
07/10/2006A Slow Day for News?
07/03/2006GM Revved Up on Merger Talk
06/26/2006Monday Musings
06/19/2006Celebrating June 19th
06/12/2006Under the Radar or Behind Black Curtains?
06/05/2006Tall Tales of Two Traders
05/22/2006Mirror, Mirror...On the Wall
05/15/2006A Tough Act to Follow: A Fiat Farce
05/08/2006Questions Begging Answers?
05/01/2006Over-Reach or Overdrawn?
04/24/2006A Review of Last Week's Silver Streak
04/17/2006An Ode To the 200-Day Moving Average
04/10/2006Chaos Known As Volatility
04/03/2006Taking Heed at Tax Time
03/27/2006Getting Carried Away
03/20/2006What Makes a Reserve Currency?
03/13/2006Goldman Zeros Japan
03/06/2006A Fourteen-Year "Overnight" Success
02/27/2006Potpourri
02/13/2006Conflicts, Confusion, Clear Visions and Countdowns
02/06/2006Debt Markets Demystified
01/30/2006The End of an Era
01/23/2006Forks in the Road
01/09/2006The Road Ahead
12/19/2005Dow 11,000 Before Year End?
12/12/2005Weird Goings-On In the Gold Market
12/05/2005Crude Oil vs. Nat. Gas -- A Contrarian's Hypothesis
11/28/2005Gulf Oil and Gas Update -- The Fundamentals
11/21/2005Currency Conundrums
11/14/2005Show Me the Money
11/07/2005What's Up Doc?
10/31/2005An Interesting Take On Interest Rates
10/24/2005Changing of the Guard
10/17/2005Passing Gas, Royalty and Income Trusts and More
10/10/2005Kilroy Was Here
10/03/2005Easy Come, Easy Go
09/26/2005Losing It
09/19/2005News With Views
09/12/2005The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same
08/29/2005The Greenspan Legacy
08/22/2005Slow Boat to China or Junk Tales to Debunk? – The Sequel
08/15/2005A Slow Boat to China or Hollywood Hubris?
08/08/2005Twilight at the Fed: Subliminal Parallels
08/01/2005Free Trade: At What Cost?
07/25/2005Tunnel Vision
07/18/2005Mid Summer Report Card
07/11/2005The Running of the Bulls
06/27/2005Surprise!
06/20/2005Dogs of the Dow
06/13/2005Fighting the Fatigue Factor
06/06/2005What's in Store for Us?
05/23/2005Fundamental Thoughts Regarding Technical Analysis
05/16/2005Exit Stage Right
05/09/2005The Legacy Costs of Doing Business
05/02/2005Concerning Relationships
04/25/2005Do Squeaky Wheels Always Get The Oil?
04/18/2005Curiosity Concerning Conundrums
04/11/2005Derivative Debate: A Practical Primer
04/04/2005Faithfully Yours
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