European Credit Crisis: Disaffirmation
It’s bad already. And it’s getting worse. Still, there are many who just don’t – or won’t – get it. The latter group is usually filled with politicians, too engaged in denial to fully grasp the fiscal and deflationary implications of this credit crisis.
Slaying the Many-Headed Monster in Coffee
One of the biggest flaws of fundamental analysis is its tendency to present a multitude of outside factors for a given market --- All of which have conflicting implications. Case in point: The bullish, bearish, bullish, bearish news items regarding the Coffee market. Read the full story...
Why “Conquer The Crash” Is More Relevant Today Than Ever Before
Suppose that all the conventional financial wisdom you've ever heard was written onto a large chalkboard -- and then someone gave you an eraser, a box of chalk, and the knowledge of how financial markets really work. That may be the kind of vision you'd have after reading Bob Prechter’s best selling book “Conquer The Crash.”
Two Grains Of Wheat In Two Barrels Of Chaff
When it comes to foolishness, Shakespeare always gets straight to the point -- which brings to mind the work it usually takes to get the point of most financial media "analysis," because it's so often overwhelmed by useless chaff. And sadly, wheat is no exception
Elliott Wave: Narrow Down Your Options
Fact: you never know for sure what kind of Elliott wave structure you're dealing with until it's complete. That's a sobering fact for many Elliott wave beginners. They often expect to count perfect five and three-wave structures in charts all the way down to milliseconds. But you just can't. For one, it has to do with the limitations of your data feed. But even if your data were perfect, some ambiguity with real-time wave counts would still remain. Here's how you handle that...
Will OIL Prices Continue To Fall?
Public (Economic) Enemy Number One -- the soaring oil market -- has been caught. The damage from its record-smashing rally contained. From their all-time July 11, 2008 peak, crude prices have plunged to a three-month low. One day before the FALL, our Specialty Service Energy Outlook acknowledged the market's downside potential...
The (non) Effect Of Rain On Corn Prices
The financial media is very fond of linking a given market's price action to other stuff that happened in the same day -- but seldom do they explain why. First prices fall hard "as rain and cooler weather improved prospects for crops" -- and second, this one-day action is part of a 30% decline in corn over the past five weeks. But what about the first four weeks of that price decline, which included a shortage of rain and hotter-than-usual temperatures?
Real Estate and "Phone Book Guys"
In the U.S, they have become as ubiquitous as hotdog street vendors, or a McDonald's at every highway exit – lawyer ads on the back of the phone book. In the age of Blackberries, phone books aren’t what they used to be, and those back-cover ads are unbelievably expensive. Yet, with the lawsuit now pending by the state of New York against Swiss bank UBS AG, those phone book lawyer guys are likely to get a whole lot busier...
U.S. Bond Market: The Look Of Fear... and Failure
Anxiety is to a rising market what a flaming torch is to a hot-air balloon. And, as one of the most reliable measures of collective investor emotion, the record widening of the Junk-to-Treasury Yield Spread over the last year shows exactly why the finanical sector has gone "Pop!"
