VIX challenged its Intermediate-term resistance at 10.22 but did not break above it, closing near an 88.6% retracement A breakout above the Ending Diagonal trendline suggests a complete retracement of the decline from January 2016, and possibly to August 2015. The December target may be the Cycle Top at 23.11. (ZeroHedge) While the fear-tracking VIX has…
EUR/USD made a move to the upside but eventually failed to stay there and retreated amid the ECB meeting. What’s next? Final inflation figures and a key German survey stand out. Here is an outlook for the highlights of this week and an updated technical analysis for EUR/USD. The ECB raised its growth forecasts but the optimism was…
Investing can seem overwhelming, particularly for beginners. But for those willing to put in the time, investing can be one of the most rewarding financial moves a person can make. For most, the destination of investing is financial independence. The stock market is an excellent vehicle to accomplish this. More specifically, dividend growth stocks have…
A study of the 2004 repatriation holiday shows 94% of the money did nothing to create jobs. The Wall Street journal explains Why Cash Returning From Overseas Isn’t Likely to Create Jobs—and Might Even Reduce Them. Based on analyses of past programs to repatriate overseas corporate earnings, Wall Street analysts and tax experts expect companies would…
Guess what? Cross-asset vol. is suppressed. Who knew, right? How should you capitalize? Well, you know how the old saying is “don’t quit your day job”? Yeah, so in the current environment, the opposite applies. If you are a Target manager, you should actually “quit your day job” in favor of moving in and out…
In a recent post, I came to the following conclusion: “the notion that simply ‘following the trend’ in Gold will lead to vast riches is a false one.” I made this statement after analyzing a simple trend following system (going back to 1975), using the 200-day moving average as a signal of when to get…
Is it just me or has there been a resurgence in the number of people who worry about hyperinflation? I don’t engage in these conversations too often anymore because they’re almost always the same. That conversation usually goes something like this: Inflationista: The government has destroyed our purchasing power by printing too much money! CR:…
What will it take to radically reduce the cost basis of our economy? If we had to choose one “big picture” reason why the vast majority of households are losing ground, it would either be the stagnation of income or the spiraling out of control cost basis of our economy, that is, the essential foundational expenses of…
Asian stock markets were mixed on Tuesday following a choppy session in New York on Monday and after news that the Reserve Bank of Australia kept its cash rate stable at its December policy meeting. On Wall Street, the technology sector struggled on Monday, falling 1.9 percent and causing the benchmark S&P 500 to close…
In a well-diversified portfolio, you normally have three different type of earnings — appreciation, dividends, or interest. “Appreciation” is the growth in the value of your investment based on the market going up. Income investors receive “dividends” or “interest” on their investments. INTEREST Interest is what you earn on money you lend out. For example, when you…
