Charting Stocks

Gold’s recent price action suggests a breakout may be near.

After consolidating for almost a year, it appears that gold may be in the early stages of another advancement. The chart below illustrates the breach of the 1 year downtrend (Red line). The RSI (bottom section) suggests that the move may have more to go as [...]

2009 will be a year of complete destruction for the US economy. 5 Million will lose their jobs. The Dow Jones Industrial average will break below 6,000. Municipalities will fail. Insurers will fail. The unemployed and foreclosed American population will take to the streets and begin rioting. The Greatest Depression is upon us.
Sound far fetched? [...]

One of the ways market technicians try to predict sector out performance is by conducting a relative strength analysis. In a bear market the price charts of most sectors and stocks are moving down with the market. Some sectors are moving down more than the market, and so they are relatively weaker, and some are [...]

The 2008 US dollar rally is losing steam and may be coming to an end. I know that the run up in the currency left many in the financial world scratching their heads. How can the currency of a collapsing economy strengthen? Why, when trillions of new dollars are being created out of thin air, [...]

Kondratieff
Nikolai Kondratieff was a Russian Professor who, after the Russian revolution of 1917, was tasked with developing the “Five year plan” which researched and analyzed factors regarding economic growth for the Soviet’s. Kondratieff published his work in 1926 and because his findings seemed critical of the stated policies of Joseph Stalin, Professor Kondratieff was removed [...]

The U.S. government is ready to provide $7.7 trillion of American taxpayer money after guaranteeing $306 billion of Citigroup Inc. debt yesterday. These pledges amount to HALF OF US GDP and almost four times the amount the Government receives in tax revenue per year.
The US dollar sold off on the news as gold spiked [...]