Charting Stocks

An unusual dynamic has taken shape over the last few months – Both the US Dollar and Gold have been rising together. Normally, such a movement would seem counter intuitive as Gold is a commodity and commodities tend to move in the opposite direction of the US dollar. There is a slight caveat, however, to [...]

Call us what you wish, but blind optimists we are not.  Our Jan. 2007 post titled ” The Coming Stock Market Crash of 2007 (OK, we were a bit early),” made the case for a coming economic tsunami. Our justifications were many, but perhaps none bigger than the depression already underway in the US Real [...]

When we wrote “Inflating a Bull Market,” we mentioned the inverse relationship between the US dollar and stock prices. In March, the US dollar peaked from overbought levels and began to decline. At the same time stocks bottomed from oversold levels and began to move up. The reason is simple – Stocks are priced [...]

After nearly 5 years of  depression, the housing market will likely bottom in 2010. Many of the major home builder stocks have finally broken above 4 year downtrends, while others are showing clear signs of a bottom (pinch me).
Why do we care about stocks? It’s important to understand one of the most fundamental principles of [...]

The Morgan Stanley Smith Barney deal is now official.  The new wealth management firm officially launched this week and has more than 20,000 financial advisors with $1.7 trillion in client assets. The firm has been formed through a joint venture between Morgan Stanley and Citigroup. Morgan paid $2.7 billion for a 51% stake in the [...]

Stock futures are down sharply this morning ahead of the open. The DJIA is down 170 points while the NASDAQ is off 21 points. The mainstream media sources are attributing todays selloff to a comment made from the Obama administration that suggests a GM bankruptcy is a possibility. Is that really the reason for the [...]

Clients of Ning are outraged [Link disabled by Ning] over a  decision that Ning made public last week. The software maker sent out an email to all of its clients, those who have created a social network on Ning, stating that they would email all members of all websites who use the Ning software to [...]

I came across an article on MarketWatch.com which argues that the price of silver is cheap relative to gold. Written by Myra Saefong, the article goes on to say that because silver is trading more than 70 times less than gold, it is under priced when compared to gold.
When reading market commentary, I tend to [...]

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose almost 240 points (3.5%) today. As mentioned in a previous post, large daily percentage gains are more consistent with bear markets than bulls. Todays rally was led by banks and REIT’s,  two of the most beaten up and oversold sectors – also consistent with a bear market correction.
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One of the silver linings of this economic depression is the collapse of mainstream media companies and the creation of internet blogs along with citizen journalism. While this media shift is ongoing and certain, a question arises – Will the government, in further effort to keep their political-financial-media power in tact, bailout big media?
Does the [...]