Long-term trends grow from short term trends. We attampt to determine the short term trends and where they are pointing.
It’s more important to the market than Ireland, Greece, Portugal, and Spain combined The trials and tribulations of these four countries (that have run up huge deficits) have been well known for quite some time. What is more important in my opinion is not the size of the debt, which is staggering, but rather what […]
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Today we have an analysis by Chris Vermeulen “The Gold and Oil Guy”.  Chris has some rock solid tips on trading choppy markets like we are seeing now. Picking tops can be very difficult and costly so check out Chris’ advice in the final paragraph. It’s worh its weight in Gold!~ Tim McMahon, editor Dollar, Gold
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How often have you heard analysts refer to a down day on Wall Street as “traders taking profits”? Sounds great, but the sobering fact is that most traders — in futures, commodities, or forex — lose money. Any book on trading will list for you the many reasons why most traders lose. Yet some traders do win;
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By Doug Hornig, Editor, Casey’s Extraordinary Technology Developing nations are playing technological leapfrog. In the developed world, when we think of technology, the roots of much of what we do today were born decades, or even a century, ago. While the evolution has been fast paced, the progression from there through today is a straight line
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One of the best ways to get a true view of where the market really is involves looking at it denominated in something else other than dollars. One of the most interesting tools (and least discussed in the financial media) is the DJIA priced in gold — “the real money,” as Robert Prechter calls it.
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Wild swings are occurring with unprecidented regularity in various markets across the spectrum. One minute you have 98% bullish sentiment in one market and the next minute it is 92% bullish in an entirely different market, (often in the extreme opposite market), So what does this mean for the overall investing community? In the video
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Rumors are, the U.S. government “is propping up the stock market.” By far, the most frequent question we’ve been asked recently is: “What is your take on the persistent internet chatter that the Federal Reserve is holding up the stock market via QE2, POMO, etc.? How can stocks ever decline again if the Fed
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By Susan C. Walker When money market funds, mutual funds and CDs yield next to nothing, the old itch to find higher yields kicks in. That may be why Bloomberg has had a field day reporting on the latest attempts to find higher yields. For example, from an October 7 story: Â Private-equity firms are
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Video (Part 2): Prechter: Ominous Pattern in the DJIA (Note: This interview was originally recorded on September 20, 2010) In the video below, Robert Prechter talks to Yahoo! Finance Tech Ticker host Aaron Task and Henry Blodget about a technical pattern he sees forming in the Dow.
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Video (Part 1): Prechter On Market Rally (Note: This interview was originally recorded on September 20, 2010) In the video below, Robert Prechter talks to Yahoo! Finance Tech Ticker host Aaron Task and Henry Blodget about extreme readings in various indicators that confirm his bear-market forecast. If you can’t see the video it is no
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