Political Futures, Revisited
There’s an interesting collection of links and data points over at Chris. F. Masse’s blog, looking at the most memorable...
How to Use Earnings as a Buy Signal
I’ve been having an interesting discussion with my friend Tony Dwyer of FT Finacial over the impact of year-over-year changes in...
Presidential First Year and Market Performance
Not to pick on Kenneth Fisher, but lets play an analytical game: How many reasoning errors can you find in this article from Fisher in...
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...
Citibank Axes Technicians
I don’t know why, but I am not surprised: The world’s biggest financial services firm on Thursday dismissed its entire stock...
Chart of the Week: 10 Week Moving Average AAII Bullish Sentiment
Kevin Lane notes the moderating of excessive bullishness recently is a net positive for the markets: 10 Week Moving Average AAII Bullish...
Granville Predicts 2005 Dow Crash
Joe Granville is a very well regarded technician (now in his 80s) who has had some terrific calls in his career, and a few duds as...
China’s Oil Grab
You work long enough on Wall Street, you meet interesting people. Some are charming, some colorful, some sardonic, some brilliant. ...
Internals are Ugly
Nasdaq A/D is worse than 2 to 1 negative, the Up/Down volume is also poor, at 7 to 1.5. Not quite a 10 to 1 down day, but pretty ugly....
Unemployment Rate: Worse than it Appears
Sigh . . . Another month, another below-consensus Non-Farm Payroll number. Despite that disappointment, some took solace in the lower...