Guest Post by Dimitri Speck A Month with a Bad Reputation A certain degree of nervousness tends to suffuse global financial markets when the month of October approaches. The memories of sharp slumps that happened in this month in the
October 7, 2018
After a 6-month advance, it looks like the stock market may be rolling over into an intermediate decline. Downside follow-through next week will confirm. Algo-trading makes up approximately 90% of daily trading activity. Occasionally, when all the stars align, these
Stock prices decline for a number of reasons. Typically, a sharp decline in share price happens because a company’s fundamentals are deteriorating. However, sometimes a stock decline is not entirely justified. A temporary slowdown might cause investor sentiment to erode,
The latest pros and cons from the FIRE ground. I’ve written a lot of posts about FIRE which stands for Financial Independence/Retire Early. I’ve been all in on financial independence but I think for a lot of people, retiring too
After overcoming the temptation to publish under a pseudonym, former Google (GOOGL) PR executive Jessica Powell has finally dropped her long-awaited satirical novel/memoir “The Big Disruption” last week. In the highly anticipated book – and in an accompanying personal essay
* N.B. This article was originally begun and posted on October 2…I’m re-posting it here, along with numerous UPDATES & my final conclusion below… As the U.S. Senate vote of Judge Kavanaugh approaches with respect to his nomination to the Supreme Court (pending
Investors continue to seek simplicity even as Wall Street keeps coming up with more complicated financial instruments and derivatives. The reason is simple. Once you reach a certain age (or perhaps a certain net worth), you start to realize that
History suggests that gold and silver are both putting durable bottoms based on the composition of the positions in the futures market and the extreme of the decline in price.. The dichotomy between gold and silver outflows with both metals
After a six-month advance, it looks like the stock market may be rolling over into an intermediate decline. Downside follow-through next week will confirm. Algo-trading makes up approximately 90% of daily trading activity. Occasionally, when all the stars align, these
GBPUSD remains in the uptrend from 1.2661; the pullback from 1.3298 is likely consolidation for the uptrend. Another rise could be expected after the consolidation and the next target would be at the 1.3500 area. Near term support is at
