ProShares Short
I am back in the saddle: Since returning, I am experimenting with the new ProShares ETFs; I own the Nasdaq Q short (PSQ) and the Dow...
Signs of the Bear: Ned Davis
I pulled a few key lines from an interview in Barrons last week with Ned Davis, a technician and quant wonk whose institutional service...
Paul Farrell on Wall Street Bullshit
Paul Farrell — who seems to be getting more and outraged every day — pulls a buncha quotes from the past to hoist on their...
Margin drops $6B on NYSE
In the beginning of the month, we had noted that Short Selling Had Surged to a Record. Now, we may be seeing the opposite side of that...
Defining Features of Market Pros
I’ve been meaning to revisit a post by Doc Brett Steenbarger on the 5 defining features of "Market Pros," and the long...
Ignore Inverted/Flat Yield Curve at Your Own Risk
We have discussed the impact of an inverted yield curve repeatedly in the past. Much of the mainstream has denigrated the historical...
Waking the Bear
This was in last week’s Barron’s but since I’m now on the high seas (and possibly without access to the web)...
Pragmatic Relationship with Data
Something I have been wanting to address for some time now is the tendency amongst many market observers to “anthropomorphize”...
Read it here first: The Cost of Sarbanes-Oxley
It is a rather annoying tendency of politicians — and their empty-headed acolytes — to use and abuse of data and charts. One...