Archive for the 'Technical Analysis' Category

Three Ideas for a Flat-Lining Market

Free 10GB Photo Storage in the CloudI am always a student of market theory which is dynamic and highly behavioral due to present micro-structure of US markets and the behavior of algorithms, some of which are predatory, others passive, and others just gathering intelligence by searching for natural size. When volatility and correlations spike, you [...]

Commodities-Emerging-Frontier-Global Macro Markets and Analysis

Free 10GB Photo Storage in the CloudDid I mention the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) which has had one of my laptops in a loop for 10 days? Today, I saw something quite extraordinary yet obvious: the importance of being in the right market at the right time. Regardless of where or what that market [...]

CME and US Stocks in General

Free 10GB Photo Storage in the CloudIf you look at a chart of CME from late ’08 to the present, you’ll notice it’s gone into a flat-line, just like much of the US equity market. GOOG ended the year right where it started. BIDU (amazing split on the year) and APPL kicked ass because GOOG [...]

Bearish Macro Signals and Muni Bonds

Free 10GB Photo Storage in the CloudA bunch of friends whined about my posts being infrequent lately (because there’s nothing to talk about, nor observations to insult your intelligence with other than how the weather in NY and frigid markets in 2011 are somehow linked, as some “live” retail research shops have written). Or my [...]

Easiest Trading Week of the Year Ahead

There is a noticeable positive seasonal bias surrounding the Christmas holiday and this will keep stocks elevated and maybe even convince some end of year bonuses to go into the market via the mainstream mutual funds. So expect the Nas 100 to move higher in anticipation of a hard and fast sell-off on the 2nd [...]

Help Investment Capitalist Cover Costs

It’s not free running a free blog, much less something like a Proprietary Trading site based on Global Macro financial research. Every reader knows that they get something out of the site and for each reader it’s unique. Some like the geo-political twists, some purview based on Quantitative Global financial research. While most of you [...]

Hell Hath No Fury… (Update)

A couple months ago, I wrote about this one trading magazine written and printed in Australia which sends a “this is your last issue warning” with every delivery, but the magazine continues to come regardless.  I mentioned I was curiously attracted to articles about  the late WD Gann for “reasons I can’t get into” and my [...]