Memo To Citigroup CEO Michael Corbat: Does Your Crony Capitalist

The times are few and far between that I am in agreement with Senator Elizabeth Warren’s brand of Big Government liberalism. But I do applaud her willingness to stand up to the Wall Street lobby machine; her capacity to recognize and call-out out the egregious gambling dens that have metastasized there; and her insistence that never again should the hard-pressed taxpayers…

GoPro Warned In October

GoPro (GPRO) has been breaking down hard over the past several days. We warned about taking a position in GPRO back in October. Our reason was that Twitter momentum was painting a negative divergence and we needed to see price shake out and create a positive divergence. Here’s the chart we posted on 10/13/14. Subscribers to Trade…

Stock Market Tail Wags The Fed Dog

The members of the most powerful financial body in the world (U.S. Federal Reserve Committee) are spending hours on end obsessing over two words: “considerable time.” I kid you not. You can read the minutes from the last FOMC meeting here for yourself. You’ll notice that the longest paragraph by far consists of a debate over whether…

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As many of you are no doubt already aware, I have been tracking the trends in the nation’s oil inventories over the past several weeks. Unfortunately, other matters prevented me from posting an update last week so this article will discuss the past two reports from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. One of the most…

Could The Fed Trigger A Deflationary Slide In Stocks?

Policy Change Coming Next Week? In Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, a reporter with excellent contacts at the Fed, Jon Hilsenrath, penned the following: Federal Reserve officials are seriously considering an important shift in tone at their policy meeting next week: dropping an assurance that short-term interest rates will stay near zero for a “considerable time” as…

Investing In Gold?

The end of the year is closing in once again. In 2013 this was a good time to buy gold and gold mining stocks. After a strong start in 2014 the sector took another dive, but recently the precious metal has been working hard on its comeback. According Jeff Clark this is also the start…

Still Waiting On Precious Metals

It’s been three months since I’ve commented on gold (GLD) and gold stocks (GDX). The reason is that precious metals have mostly been falling and momentum on both StockTwits and Twitter haven’t painted a clear picture. The indicators show that traders have been chasing and sentiment gold is currently based more on emotion than anything…

ETFs For Retired Investors

The following is an excerpt from John Burke at  Wall St. Sector Selector In this space, we frequently focus on investments which can be solid sources of dividends payments for retired investors. With Treasury bonds paying such low yields, retired investors measure their “bang for the buck” by comparing the dividend yields of various investments….