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MY RECENT POSTS
- Technical Analysis of the
Silver Market
February 24, 2013 01:00AM - Dow 20,000 Only a Matter of
Time
February 23, 2013 05:06PM - Technical Analysis of the
Natural Gas Market
February 23, 2013 05:05PM - The Pullback Memo
February 22, 2013 01:00AM - Gold Sitting at Ledge of
2-Year Support Cliff
February 21, 2013 04:48PM
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FEBRUARY 24, 2013 1:00AM
Technical Analysis of the Silver Market
By EconMatters
Portfolio Rebalancing for
start of 2013
Silver closed Friday`s trading session at
$28.46 an ounce, capping off what has been an auspicious start to
2013. On January 23rdSilver was trading at $32 and has
been in a downtrend ever since trying to find a support level that
will hold. … Read full post »
FEBRUARY 23, 2013 5:06PM
Dow 20,000 Only a Matter of Time
By EconMatters
Dow Record in
sight
We are 200 points from breaking a new high
in the Dow Industrials which got me looking back at assets over the
last 25 years in relation to the value of the US Dollar Index and
the overall money supply.
25 years in
Markets
Some of the… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 23, 2013 5:05PM
Technical Analysis of the Natural Gas Market
By EconMatters
Near-term Double
Top
Natural Gas closed Friday at $3.35 per mmBtu
and has been on a three month downtrend from the $4 level where it
put in a near-term double top in October and November of
2012.
This was your classic short setup, as NG
bottomed in March of 2012… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 22, 2013 1:00AM
The Pullback Memo
By EconMatters
Pullbacks…pullbacks….are
we talking about Pullbacks?
That`s all I heard for two straight months,
“Gee everyone is waiting for a pullback to get
in on the rallyâ€. Well you asked for it, now you got
it! But you better not be too picky about waiting for some exact
perfect 7% correc… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 21, 2013 4:48PM
Gold Sitting at Ledge of 2-Year Support Cliff
By EconMatters
A Rough Start for
2013
Well Gold hasn`t had a particularly good
start to the year, in fact, a good pairs trade would be going long
the S&P 500 and short the Gold market for a nice 12% return in
two months. But many Gold Investors are not yet… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 20, 2013 8:23AM
The Stock Market is a Giant Ponzi Scheme
By EconMatters
An Auction with Fake
Buyers, that will end well!
The reason why is when you have the Federal
government in the form of the Federal Reserve injecting 85 Billion
worth of artificial capital, i.e., capital that wasn`t earned, or
created through increased sales, revenues or increased… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 19, 2013 3:35PM
Lumber Prices near the Top of their Historical Range
By EconMatters
The housing sector of the economy led the way…
You have come a long way
baby
The lumber market has really come off the
2009 bottom of $140 per mbf and closed Friday at $399.80 per mbf on
the back of good news out of the housing sector of the
economy.
The housing sector of the economy led the way…
FEBRUARY 18, 2013 10:38AM
Technical Analysis of the Cotton Market
By EconMatters
The Cotton Market &
Historical Slumber
The Cotton market was a pretty calm market
until the last four months of 2010 through the first four months of
2011 when it awoke from its giant slumber to more than double its
historical trading range. Cotton #2 for May 2013 which trades… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 17, 2013 12:44PM
Technical Analysis of the Wheat Market
By EconMatters
Down trending
Market
The Wheat market is definitely in a
downtrend right now, and if we look at the 6 month chart we stand
at $7.42 a bushel as of the close of last week. If we break $7.20 a
bushel, then there are going to be a lot of… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 16, 2013 11:07AM
More Layoffs Coming in Financial Markets
By EconMatters
Trading: State of the
Union
I was visiting a large Oil trading floor
last year, and they were having their big state of the union town
hall on the floor and the CEO of the group that trading and
marketing rolled up into talked about the dying volatility in
general… Read full post »
AUGUST 17, 2012 12:34PM
North America Energy Landscape: A Presentation
EconMatters had the pleasure of speaking at the 2012 Ontario Advocis School for the Financial Advisors Association of Canada on August 14, 2012. Chairman Mr. Dennis Yanke was kind enough to leave the topic at our complete discretion. We finally decided on the topic of…
AUGUST 15, 2012 10:31PM
Market Outlook: Risk On Thursday
Cisco
Well, miracles do still happen, that dog of
a stock for the last (too long to count) actually beat for the
quarter, yes I am talking about Cisco. Cisco quarterly reports
often send the market down 200 points; they have woefully
underperformed the market by… Read full post »
AUGUST 12, 2012 12:24AM
The Spike in Oil Prices on QE3 Expectations Should be a Warning to the Fed
Crude Oil prices for WTI were just $78
dollars in July, a month later they are $93.40 with supplies well
above their five year average range, China decelerating at a rate not seen since the
financial crisis, and US gasoline demand down 4.2 percent
year-on-year and distillates down 2.8… Read full post »
JULY 31, 2012 7:06PM
Heat Wave Can't Get You $8 Natural Gas by This Winter
The Energy Department reported that natural gas in storage grew by 26 billion cubic feet to 3.189 trillion cubic feet for the week ended July 20. The inventory level was 15.8% above the five-year average of 2.754 trillion cubic feet, and 18% above last year's level.
Low natural gas pric…
JULY 19, 2012 9:22PM
Forget Libor-gate, Oil Market Manipulation Is Far Worse
Since the Global Community all the sudden
seems to be preoccupied with Market manipulation even though the
authorities knew it was a problem for over 5 years with Libor Rate Fixing. It is high time authorities
look at the Crude Oil market which has been manipulated for the last… Read full post »
JULY 9, 2012 11:39AM
Fools Rush In After Netflix CEO Boasts on Facebook?
The wild ride of Netflix (NFLX) shares continues. After plummeting from above $300 a share to around $60 all within the past year mostly due to poor management decision. Netflix shares spiked more than 21% in one week to close at $81.89, the highest level in two months,… Read full post »
JULY 8, 2012 11:59PM
The Black Hole of Jobless in America
June employment report from the BLS said the economy added 80,000 jobs (+84,000 in private sectors, -4,000 in government jobs) in June. The unemployment rate is unchanged at 8.2% from May, while the U-6 under-employment rate rose 0.1% from May to 14.9% (in 2007, the rate was 8%).… Read full post »
JULY 5, 2012 3:03AM
Will EUR/USD Reach Parity By Year End?
The EUR/USD index edged up to 1.2533 on Wednesday, U.S. 4th of July holiday Wednesday in subdued markets ahead of the ECB rate decision to be announced on Thursday. It is widely expected that ECB officials meeting in Frankfurt will cut benchmark interest rate by between 25bps to…
JULY 3, 2012 4:09PM
The 'Icelandic Miracle' Debate, Round 2
Paul Krugman has long been an advocate of Keynesian economics, and a proponent of aggressive and expansionary fiscal policy drawing parallels between Japan's decade-long deflation and the current Great Recession. Krugman also has also been writing quite extensively using Iceland… Read full post »
JULY 2, 2012 11:25AM
Top 10 Warning Signs of a Global End Game
What a difference a year has made! About this time last year, the dollar seemed on the brink of disaster amid the debt ceiling debate at U.S. Congress. U.S. CDS spiked 430% in three months, and S&P downgraded the U.S. sovereign debt credit rating for the first time in
… Read full post »
JUNE 30, 2012 7:36PM
Crude Oil Market: A Perfect Bear Storm Despite the Euro Pop
Crude oil prices, along with world stocks, surged on Friday after euro zone leaders reached an accord on directly recapitalizing regional banks as well as measures to cut soaring borrowing costs in Italy and Spain. Brent crude jumped more than 7% in one day to close at $97.80 a…
JUNE 27, 2012 10:43PM
Forget QE3, America Needs a Real Road and Job Stimulus
How is the condition of roads that you drive On? Well, the roads that I drive on are so bad that they require a large truck or SUV to navigate at anything close to normal speeds. The potholes are alignment killers, and the horrible patches were slapped on…
JUNE 26, 2012 7:26PM
After the Sovereign Debt Crisis Comes the Deleveraging
Spain formally became the fourth country to ask for bailout aid from the euro zone on Monday, June 25. Spain's short-term borrowing costs nearly tripled at auction on Tuesday. Market participants expect Moody's to further downgrade Spain's sovereign debt to Junk status. &nbs… Read full post »
JUNE 24, 2012 6:26PM
The Coming NWO: Bankruptcy, Credit Counseling, and Debt Renegotiation
Citing "Central banks are being cornered into prolonging monetary stimulus as governments drag their feet and adjustment is delayed", the BIS (Bank for International Settlements) on Sunday, June 24 endorsed the proposals of forming a single banking union for the Euro Zone to "buy time"…
JUNE 11, 2012 2:37PM
Brazil And Petrobras: Oil Potential Or Oil Dream?
Brazil, with 2.719 million b/d (barrels per day, as of 2010) oil production, is one of the larger non-OPEC oil sources, and ranked No. 9 in the world based on 2010 oil production data, according to the U.S Energy Dept.
To exploit the huge offshore oil discoveries in recent years,… Read full post »
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