I spent a lot of time in the 2017 End of Year Special Edition looking back across 2017. I covered some of my best charts and market/macro calls of the year (and some of the worst!), along with my favorite charts, and a
January 1, 2018
Early in 2017 I made a prediction. I knew all year long that we would see one analyst after another try to call a top in this bull market. I also knew every one of them were going to be
It seems like every day another financial luminary declares the death of bitcoin… For example, in just the past few months: Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan said bitcoin will ultimately “prove worthless.” Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz said
The tax bill recently signed by President Trump should be a boon to corporate America. The bill will drop the corporate tax rate from the current 35% to 21%. But energy companies, which have historically had a higher tax burden
The books have officially been closed on 2017 — both the year and the stock market — and it was a robust year for stocks and a solid one, too, for the Tematica Investing Select List. We’ve had a number
Forex trading was unusually tricky in 2017, with many forces moving the market, making it difficult for many traders to find the profits they sought.Though there were some winning strategies in 2017, many standard technical strategies yielded results that were
The New Year may have begun in fact, but in practice, full participation may return only after the release of US employment data on January 5. The macroeconomic and policy tables have been set, though interpolating from the Overnight Index Swaps
The end of Friday trading was certainly interesting as the last thirty minutes of the trading day incurred most of the day’s half of a percent loss. A few Twitter posts I read were comments in the vein of “this
It is appropriate to think of Keynesian economics as superficial economics*, because this school of thought generally considers what’s seen and ignores what’s unseen. To put it another way, Keynesianism focuses on the readily-observable situation and the immediate/direct effects of
GBPUSD: The pair closed higher the past week opening the door for more strength towards its resistance at 1.3549 zone. Support lies at the 1.3450 level where a break will turn attention to the 1.3400 level. Further down, support lies
