2017 was another year of learning and trying to spread that education to the readers here. I am so grateful for all the people who find the content here useful and provide feedback. With all the amazing sources of financial content out there I know most of you don’t have the time to keep up…
Below is a list of the most read of our blog articles in each month during 2017. One interesting commonality for some of the top posts is the fact the ones focusing on investor sentiment tend to gain higher levels of readership. Sentiment is one important market factor we monitor on a fairly regular basis….
No Holiday Boat Parade is likely to greet the New Year; though we give thanks to the fabulous outgoing year’s gains which mark the first time for recent years, that we never suggested a formal trading short-sale. The last time was the five years of consistently bullishness from 2002-2007; which preceded the call for an ‘Epic…
Conservative Gold High Target for 2018: 1434 Flashback to Stateside Tax Day, 15 April 2013. Do you remember what really got “taxed” that day? Gold: high-to-low it fell 160 points from 1495 to 1335, the largest single-day points thrashing through this millennium’s 17 years, and on a percentage basis (-10.7%), the third worst of the bunch….
We all know that politics makes strange bedfellows, but in the case of Britain negotiating with EU over Brexit, those bedfellows could be no stranger. After months of stalled talks, Britain’s Theresa May and EU President Jean-Claude Juncker may have pulled a rabbit out of a hat. For what seemed a lifetime, the two sides…
Hello fellow traders, in this blog post, we will discuss the most hyped cryptocurrency Bitcoin in a technical as well as psychological perspective. From the zero line, we are calling bitcoin completed in the super cycle blue wave (a) at 17/12/17 top. From that high, the market completed the first leg of 3 of a double correction….
In surveying this year for dramatic alpha-related stories, we have much from which to choose. This was the year in which the Murdoch family announced its intention to sell some of their highest value holdings to Disney. Also, in 2017 the EQT Rice merger (contested, unsuccessfully, by one prominent hedge fund and challenged, but in…
The history of money can be traced back to barter where goods were swapped for other goods or labor. As societies became more sophisticated and better ordered, “value” was transferred from things to tokens (coins and eventually banknotes) which were more convenient than carrying a dozen chickens with you wherever you went. The coins were…
Malaysia, a Southeast Asian country which occupies parts of the Malay Peninsula and the island of Borneo is well-known for its iconic Petronas Twin Tower, beaches, rainforests and mix of Malay, Chinese, Indian and European cultural influences, just to name a few. Besides that, Malaysia is well-endowed with natural resources such as petroleum, rubber, palm…
Just a little over three months ago, the BIS (the central bank for central banks), released a fairly detailed discussion of cryptocurrencies that sought to answer the following question: What are CBCCs? “CBCC” stands for central bank cryptocurrencies and as we and plenty of other folks have variously suggested, it’s just a matter of time before…
