Understanding your risk level is one of the most important parts of financial planning. Here’s why: Imagine you’re playing chess and you’re about to move your queen to a particular square. Makin...
AT40 = 65.0% of stocks are trading above their respective 40-day moving averages (DMAs)AT200 = 60.5% of stocks are trading above their respective 200DMAsVIX = 11.3 (volatility index)Short-term Trad...
from Daily Reckoning — this post authored by James Rickard After nine years of unconventional quantitative easing (QE) policy the Federal Reserve is now setting out on a new path for quantitati...
Heading into the July 4th holiday and indices experienced a mix of reactions. Large Caps came out relatively unscathed with only a minor reaction to last week’s selling. The S&P remains caug...
Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk tweeted new details about the Model 3 ramp, including that they’re planning to roll the first one off the production line on Friday. However, some are suggesting that by M...
In 2008, the biggest banks in the Western world were being bailed out by their governments. Barclays, however, raised billions of dollars on its own to fortify its balance sheet and sidestep the incon...
The chart shows real house prices in US vs Canada from the period 1975-2016. Taking a long time period is always good practice, as is inflation adjusting price series such as these. The one cautio...
Econintersect’s Economic Index continues to forecast strengthening economic fundamentals – with the index showing normal growth for the third month in a row. Six-month employment growth f...
One of the key tenets of technical analysis is that we can use previous patterns to forecast what might happen in the future. It is not the same easy modeling of fractals (please tell me you get the s...
US markets were closed on July 4. Asian and European equities moved lower as did most bond yields. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index fell a third of one percent. It was the third consecutive losing session...