Investment Capitalist

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Nasdaq and Dow are at 2/3 retracements of their pullback from mid-January. What happens here is crucial. Is there follow-thru? Or will there be a test of the February Lows first, or even perhaps a higher low? Did the Fed tip its hand and give the all clear sign with the surprise discount hike

Let’s not forget that Investment Capitalist called the market bottom on March 9th as a day that would go down as the easiest reversal signal in history. That’s the day our readership exploded. I want feedback from all of you and I want to hear your ideas as well so feel free to post your [...]

After much consideration and several suggestions from Investment Capitalist readers, I’ve decided to open Investment Capitalist up for members to write their own content, post ideas, analysis and share their charts; in addition to my content which I will continue writing.
I would also love to comment on readers trade ideas and their technical analysis work [...]

The desk I run is an Institutional Long/Short Equity desk which tries to maintain a “market neutral” book. This doesn’t mean “buy 1000 shares of IBM and 10 puts”. What market neutrality means is that one need not be concerned about the overall direction of the market, as momentum traders are, but rather have long [...]

Gold went over $1000 and sustained a rally to $1020. A dip to test, and re-test $1000 is likely. This magical number will continue to be used as the line at which bulls and bears continue to thrash each other relentlessly like a tug-of-war match in an Ultimate Fighting chained rink.
I’m watching the 70.50 level [...]

With all of the clutter and insanity due to groups turning into recruiting grounds and advertising forums for esoteric and mindless products, I was compelled to launch my own LinkedIn Group which is being emphatically embraced by the systematic and discretionary proprietary trading universe, to my delight.
I know many of you are Prop. Traders, whether [...]