Rally Follow Up
In our view, the internals of Thursday’s rally were noteworthy: Nasdaq was up 3%, the largest percentage gain since July 7, 2003....
Chart of the Week: % of NYSE Stocks at 30 Day Highs
Looking at the issues on the NYSE (stock only) at 30 day highs, we find similar readings to the 2002 and 2003 lows. This confirms our...
*Programming note
I believe we’ve beaten Geopolitics to death for now. I’d like to give it a rest –at least for a while. With your kind...
4 Year Cycle
The S&P 500 overlayed against each President’s term, 1949 -1996 As this chart makes clear, the beginning of a...
Amazon Customer Service Number
Long story short: I had a big pain with an Amazon order fuck up. It was lost, they made good and shipped a new order, than 2 months later...
Barron’s picks up “Geopolitics Ate My Portfolio”
Our somewhat snarky comments from Thursday, “Geopolitical Tensions Ate My Portfolio,” got picked up by Barron’s. Heady...
How Governments Manipulates the Economy
More good stuff from the nonpartisan Stock Trader’s Almanac : Bull markets tend to occur in the third and fourth years of...
INCUMBENT VICTORIES VS. INCUMBENT DEFEATS
After yesterday’s rant about idiotic single issue analysis re: elections, I did a little more digging into the issue. I came across...
Geopolitical Tensions Ate My Portfolio
With apologies to Dave Callaway of CBS Marketwatch, whose title I have shamelessly stolen It’s never the news, but the reaction to...
Chart of the Week: NYSE Specialist / Total Short Ratio
Another sentiment indicator turns Bullish: the Specialist to Public Short Ratio (60 year chart), is at a levels which in the past have...