Despite fantabulous growth data from Google, several Dow stocks have cast a pall on the markets today, with the Dow off ~ 200 points as I...
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I’m loving this orgy of chart-porn via this Justin Lahart column in the WSJ today: click for interactive version at free WSJ: You...
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Asian bourses are down 1.75 – 2% as of this moment — might this be a coincidental forewarning on the 20th anniversary of the...
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Sometimes, short term mechanical concerns can magnify market moves. Example: Consider option gamma and this week’s option...
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Rob Fraim is a reader of mine who puts out his own amusing comments each day via email. On the 17th anniversary of the 1987 stock market...
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There is a terrific narrative by Jan Hopkins (Live From New York), who was the only reporter on the floor of the NYSE the day of the...
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I have not been a believer in the parallels between the present market and the 1987 crash. The back drops are too different, and the...
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As bad as the markets looked today — and at times, there was some heavy selling — the word that kept coming back to me was...
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A few years ago, we noted with wry amusement Joshua Cyr’s Spam Stock Tracker. Well, Josh is back with an updated version that is...
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Last month, we got a terrific response to our posting of the entire first chapter of A Demon of Our Own Design. I want to start doing...
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