Since the market lows in crude oil in the late 90′s growing demand from emerging markets and a realization that the easy oil has been found combined to make oil a very popular investment theme. At the same time innovative new products such as the Oil ETF have caused a sharp rise in investor demand. [...]
Right now, the U.S. faces a very grave choice. Choice A: Reduce our spending and cut entitlements Choice B: Continue devaluing the U.S. Dollar to inflate away our debts. Choice B is the most likely outcome because on the surface it doesn’t require anyone to sacrifice. However, why do you think you are suddenly paying [...]
It has been a good year to be invested in the Emerging Markets as most of these developing countries have bounced back much stronger than anyone anticipated. Since foreign markets contribute as much as 50% of revenues to S&P 500 companies it has been a very important driver of stock prices in 2010. Another area [...]
When I first started investing and trading in the late 1980′s I bought a piece of charting software called Ensign. After I set it all up and started charting the futures markets I started to build up historical data. As that data grew I was able to analyze lots of different markets and “back test” [...]
I’ve been watching the gold and silver markets the past few weeks with utter amazement. Silver especially has been on a one way track straight up. You can see by the chart of SLV below, it hasn’t broke the 20 day simple moving average since the rally began in August. As you can see SLV [...]
