Monthly Archives: August 2015

The Impending Oil Reserve Write-Down

Investing Daily Article of the Week by Robert Rapier, Investing Daily Investors in oil and gas companies have one more unpleasant surprise awaiting them at the end of the year. Each year in their annual reports, companies report on their future cash flows, net of costs, based on their proved reserves. This is referred to as the…

Lancing The Financial Market Bubbles Of 2015

I blogged yesterday about the Fed’s information operations campaign for an interest rate increase. Gold is the obvious first victim of any move to strengthen an already strong dollar. It is worth asking ourselves whether other assets will suffer as much. Bubble economies happen all the time. They tend to happen in isolation, when investors in one…

EUR/USD Forex Signal For August 6, 2015

EUR/USD Signal Update Yesterday’s signals might have given a quick and profitable short trade off 1.0892. Today’s EUR/USD Signals Risk 0.75% Trades must be entered between 8am and 5pm London time today. Long Trade 1 Go long following a bullish price action reversal on the H1 time frame immediately upon the next entry into the zone…

To Log Or Not To Log, Part II

<< Read Part I: To Log Or Not To Log Following up on this post, estimating the consumption function. Consider the canonical consumption-income relationship discussed in macro textbooks. For pedagogical reasons, the relationship is often stated as: (1)   C = c0 + c1 Yd Where C is real consumption and Yd is real disposable income. Figure 1 depicts the relationship over the…

Chinese Stocks Tumble Despite Margin Debt Rises As Virtu Is Unlea

No lesser liquidity-providing high-frequency-trading never-a-losing-trade shop than Virtu financial has been ‘allowed’ to trade Chinese capital markets. Coming just days after Citadel’s ban, one can only assume that Chinese regulators made a deal with the devil CEO Doug Cifu to levitate markets at any and every cost in order to pick up pennies in front of de-leveraging, over-margined army…

Beijing May Question The Yuan Peg As The Fed Prepares For Liftoff

Wednesday’s ISM non-manufacturing report showed US services sector expansion considerably stronger than economists had anticipated. The strength of services sector expansion however has diverged materially from what we see in US manufacturing. Source: St. Louis Fed, ISM The reason for the divergence is the strength of the US dollar, which on a trade-weighted basis is…

Amicus Therapeutics – All Time High

The Chart of the Day belongs to Amicus Therapeutics (Nasdaq:FOLD). I found the biopharmaceutical stock by using Barchart to sort today’s All Time High list for the stocks with the highest Weighted Alpha then used the Flipchart feature to review the charts. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 5/26 the stock gained 55.34%….

FitBit (FIT) Crushes 2015 Q2 Earnings Expectations

Founded in 2007, San Francisco-based FitBit Inc (FIT – Snapshot Report) is a popular fitness company that manufactures and markets wearable fitness-tracking devices. The company’s product list includes the original FitBit Tracker, FitBit Ultra, FitBit One, FitBit Zip, FitBit Flex, FitBit Force, FitBit Charge, FitBit Charge HR (heart rate), FitBit Surge, and FitBit Aria, a…