Top Advisors Corner November 28, 2014 at 04:00 PM
OPEC announced yesterday, that its members had agreed to keep the current production ceiling and hence refrain from cutting output to sustain prices... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 28, 2014 at 09:40 AM
November 27, 2014 There is a big squeeze under way in the gold leasing market, a condition which is usually followed by a meaningful gold rally in the weeks that follow. The London Bullion Market Association publishes data each day on the Gold Forward Offered Rate, or GOFO... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 26, 2014 at 02:10 PM
In this three-part series, I address your question, “When equities go down, do bonds go up?” This is an excellent question many investors have when determining asset allocation for their portfolios. Last week, I compared the top bond funds performance vs... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 26, 2014 at 09:50 AM
Monitoring purposes SPX; Sold 9/30/14 at 1972.29= gain .003%; Long SPX on 9/25/14 at 1965.99. Monitoring purposes Gold: Gold ETF GLD long at 173.59 on 9/21/11... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 26, 2014 at 09:40 AM
How To Properly Assess Which Market Participant Controls The Bottom Formation Bottoms and Tops are critical junctures in a trend reversal... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 24, 2014 at 10:40 AM
Is it really 'all-in' by Central Banks - as analysts persist saying; buttressed for sure by the PBOC rate cut overnight ahead of Friday's New York opening? Or is it, as a Chinese PBOC official said later in their day, not a valid sign of a program of liquidity injection... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 21, 2014 at 10:45 AM
A lot of charts in this contribution today (well a picture is worth a million words)... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 21, 2014 at 09:45 AM
In this three-part series, I address your question, “When equities go down, do bonds go up?” This is an excellent question many investors have when determining asset allocation for their portfolios. Last week, I compared the top bond funds performance vs... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 21, 2014 at 09:40 AM
Identifies Extreme Deviating Peaks™ - Cycle Reverberations™ - Cycle Deviations The problem with guru predictions is that most of the time those predictions are not reliable... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 20, 2014 at 12:47 PM
The market was anticipating something negative in the Fed minutes on Wednesday, since a few of the Feds, who happen to be on their way out in 2015, have been asking for rates to be raised sooner than later... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 20, 2014 at 12:22 PM
Monitoring purposes SPX: Sold 9/30/14 at 1972.29= gain .003%; Long SPX on 9/25/14 at 1965.99. Monitoring purposes GOLD: Gold ETF GLD long at 173.59 on 9/21/11 Long Term Trend monitor purposes: Flat The top window is the 10 period moving average of the TRIN... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 20, 2014 at 11:15 AM
It is time again to look to a fascinating signal from T-Bond futures open interest, one which gives really reliable signals, but only for a fraction of the time... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 17, 2014 at 01:13 PM
The data on the U.S. unemployment rate have been getting progressively better over recent months, either because of or in spite of the government’s efforts, depending on one’s viewpoint... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 14, 2014 at 03:27 PM
Current analytical 'narratives' - are mostly bereft of realistic perspectives... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 14, 2014 at 01:55 PM
We set out today to understand to which extent falling EUR/USD may be helping Germany, Europe’s largest exporting economy and especially if we can register any effect of it through the performance of the DAX Index... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 13, 2014 at 03:11 PM
The chart example above of the 3M Co. (NYSE:MMM) and the Dow 30 index chart look very similar, due to the weighting and formulation of the Dow that heavily favors specific stocks within the index... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 12, 2014 at 02:46 PM
Monitoring purposes SPX: Sold 9/30/14 at 1972.29= gain .003%; Long SPX on 9/25/14 at 1965.99. Monitoring purposes GOLD: Gold ETF GLD long at 173... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 12, 2014 at 02:36 PM
Today I address your question, “When equities go down, do bonds go up?” This is an excellent question many investors have when determining asset allocation for their portfolios. To answer, I developed a three-part series to address this question in the fairest manner possible... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 07, 2014 at 02:30 PM
This Friday’s Non-Farm Payroll numbers are sending slight jitters through the markets. It’s probably the right time to consider one’s options in respect to the US Dollar: 1. Has the current short term rally since mid October reached its exhaustion point? 2... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 06, 2014 at 02:22 PM
One aspects of the massive internal structural changes that continues to evolve the stock market is how the new orders for the institutions and professional traders are altering price patterns, trends, and Candlestick Patterns for retail and technical traders... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 06, 2014 at 02:16 PM
Last week I wrote about a rather unique way to look at the sentiment data from the weekly Investors Intelligence survey. This week, I want to expand on that topic a little bit more, and cover the one piece of data in that weekly report which gets the least attention... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 06, 2014 at 02:14 PM
It is time for another "best of breed" books that make great gifts for investors and traders. My heart is in financial education, with the goal "to teach my students how to make better-educated financial decisions... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 06, 2014 at 02:09 PM
Monitoring purposes SPX; Sold 9/30/14 at 1972.29= gain .003%; Long SPX on 9/25/14 at 1965.99. Monitoring purposes Gold: Gold ETF GLD long at 173.59 on 9/21/11... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 04, 2014 at 12:49 PM
Well, at least after the sixth gap up in the pattern the market did sell off a bit on Monday. Not exactly a crash down, but at least the gap got taken out. It is very rare to find five gap-ups without seeing one of them fail, which shows the froth in all its glory... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 03, 2014 at 02:50 PM
Rationales & Targets Our “Initial Support” level of Dow 16,587 was taken out on Friday, October 10th. Our “Important Support” level of Dow 16,333 was taken out on Monday, October 13th... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 03, 2014 at 02:08 PM
Last week, we analyzed my weekly S&P 500 chart and saw my system signaled lower prices ahead, but missed a 10 percent correction by .17 percent. After the selloff, the markets have rebounded... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 03, 2014 at 02:01 PM
The “Save our Swiss Gold” referendum is currently making headlines around the world... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 03, 2014 at 01:52 PM
'Banzeinomics' - set-the-stage for Friday's rolling capitulation (a migrating blow-off) first in Tokyo; then Europe; and finally in America... Read More
Top Advisors Corner November 03, 2014 at 01:44 PM
Investors Intelligence has been publishing their survey of investment advisors and newsletter writers since 1963. The initial presumption was that when all of the smart guys started leaning one way, then that was the way to lean... Read More