There are a few times in stock market history when rationality goes totally AWOL and a mania envelops investors like a cloud. We saw it in the 1990s in the Dotcom Bubble when the Nasdaq soared just on the basis of the projected eyeball count
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Right after I posted yesterday’s coverage of copper (Copper is King), I spotted an article in Bloomberg: Crazy, Nuts, Unsustainable: Analysts in Disbelief over Copper. I had to laugh when I read this: “The copper market went haywire this week, leaving analysts voicing shock over
In recent posts, I have been using my Headline Indicator (HI) extensively with the most recent example on 13 October when I asked “Will hedge funds start to lose money in sterling?”. Here, I made a case that because of the extremely dramatic headlines suddenly
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ANNOUNCEMENT I am launching my new VIP PRO SHARES SERVICE very soon – watch for further details on my website. It is aimed at both spread betters and investors. Could this be the moment I have long been waiting for? In the past two
ANNOUNCEMENT I am launching my new VIP PRO SHARES SERVICE very soon – watch for further details on my website. It is aimed at both spread betters and investors. As you know, I am a great fan of MSM headlines and regularly quote the
With many markets well into the summer doldrums, I thought I would update my thoughts on a few key markets. T-Bonds A couple of weeks ago, I had pinpointed a highly likely top in the Treasuries and the market then sold off by seven
Saturday’s blogpost contained a comment that I suggest bullish sentiment towards UK gilts surely must be reaching a peak, as has already occurred last month in US Treasuries where the 30-yr T-Bond has declined by seven full points to Friday’s close. This was from a
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of bullishness, it was the age of bearishness… (as Charles Dickens almost wrote). On Thursday, Carney unleashed his version of the Big Bazooka by lowering UK Bank Rate and
The euro is getting some bad press lately with the confession the IMF admits it has made a few boo-boos regarding its euro policy and its failed policy towards Greece. Basically, the euro fanatics inside the IMF concocted a dodgy dossier that hoodwinked the board
Market Commentary I was away at the MoneyWeek Conference last week where I gave a talk entitled: “How I make profits in today’s volatile markets’. And just to emphasise the point that today’s markets are indeed extremely volatile, the firs two speakers had diametrically
My new website is progressing and I expect it to go live in two or three weeks. Market Commentary As for the markets, stocks provided little excitement last week in the pre-holiday period. But currencies were a different matter! In yesterday’s MoneyWeek Trader
