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Trading Resources for the Independent Trader
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| Energy - An Old Bug-A-Boo |
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| A New Era? |
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| In For The Long Haul |
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:44:52 -0600
The Gold Bubble This represents my personal opinion, not the views of the SEC or its staff.
I am not going to spend time here talking about how the price of
gold is off-the-wall, that it is not just a bubble in the making, but a
bubble waiting to burst. I don’t want to waste your time on that
point.We all know it [...] | Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:51:05 -0600
Happy Anniversary: Top and Bottom! By one of those oddly serendipitous coincidences, this week marks not one but two major Wall Street anniversaries:
Happy Bottoms:
The 12 year low was set one year ago this week. On March 6, 2009, the
markets made their “Devil” bottom: The S&P500 hit 666.79, down
57.69% from October 11, 2007 high of 1576.09. The Dow Jones Industrials
peaked the [...] | Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:10:35 -0600
More on the Resolution Authority Headfake Self-deception is a remarkably useful form of mental disturbance.
Calculated liars have to keep their stories straight, while the deluded
are sincere and often unshakable in their misguided beliefs.
The Powers That Be insist that a magic bullet called a special
resolution authority will solve many of the problems with the “heads I
win, tails you lose” taxpayer backstopped financial [...] | Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:39:06 -0600
A New Index of Financial Conditions What do current financial indicators tell us about where the economy is headed?
Macroeconomists have long observed that changes in financial
indicators often presage future changes in the economy. For example, a
big gap between yields on long-term relative to short-term bonds often signals that faster real economic growth is coming, while an increase in the spread between risky and [...] | Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:18:17 -0600
‘Swap Tango’ – A Derivative Regulation Dance: Part 1 On 30 July 1998, Alan
Greenspan, then Chairman of the Federal Reserve argued that: "Regulation
of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is
unnecessary." In October 2008, the now former Chairman grudgingly
acknowledged that he was "partially" wrong to oppose
regulation of credit default swaps ("CDS"). "Credit default
swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them," he [...] |
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