Oil Top Sets up Next (Last?) Market Leg Up
As of this morning, our expectations of $57 a barrel have been met – and exceeded. This has very significant consequences for how...
Are Fixed Income Markets as Wild as Equities?
Steve Liesman’s WSJ column, the Macro Investor, often asks intriguing questions. Friday’s column was no different: The issue...
Modern Art Market Superheats
As I read this article, red lights and sirens started going off in my head. Why? I cannot possibly imagine that this sort of financial...
VIX Needs a Friend
A quick note on Harry Schiller’s interesting and thought provoking article on the VIX at RM: For a buy indicator, few things in...
Ten Commandments of Trading
Rev Shark does an excellent job writing the trading diary for Real Money. Shark is one of my must reads everyday on RM. Last week,...
Ed Jones: Worse than you thought . . .
Last month, Jim Cramer ripped Edward Jones a new one; While I agreed with what he said, I didn’t bother to follow up because I...
Vomit Indicator
Rob Fraim‘s contributions to these pages are always welcome. Today’s comments are so amusing I felt they deserved a wider...
The Skeptic’s Guide to Stock Tips
NOTE: I originally wrote this in 2000, and published it in 2001. I’m moving it here from geocities, before that site crashes...