Any precious metal experts here?
The experienced trader above says to buy physical gold only.
Now I'm aware of some of the arguments on the dangers of everything else besides physical. Gold futures don't have actual metal backing them; your futures contract depends on the survival of the...
Traditionally a high put/call ratio was interpreted as bullish under the assumption that retail was buying and the option sellers were the larger institutions.
Nowadays, with retail deserting stocks, one cannot draw the same classic conclusion. Who knows, maybe the option buyers are the large...
Have any of you noticed how quiet the Fed has been recently?
During February and March, every time the market sold off a little bit you hear the Fed talking about QE3, but not recently.
I've seen this a number of times already, but when there are problems in Europe, SPX swoons to 10:30am EST, then immediately rallies after that. Just happened 15 minutes ago and SPX is up 7 points from the low at 10:30.
A combination of reasons.
Daily Gold chart was already forming a wedge pattern, which suggested an impending breakout. As noted by AK100, there was support at 1612 price level, but the duration of the consolidation (~ 6 weeks) suggested a bigger move. One usually can expect price to move by the...
Nice way to jump in front of a freight train. 30 yr is set to break all-time low yields.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/47344285
5/8/12
Doug Kass Shorts Bonds, Says Safety Premium Too Great
Forget stocks, famed market timer Doug Kass says investors should be playing the bond market â from...
Not that I give a fcuk what you think, but I did vote in the poll and provided useful information. Do you need to look up the definition for Quid pro quo?
Hedge fund investors are not known to be a patient group of people. Like MTV, they want to see their returns and they want to see them now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_jVFjYTi78&feature=relmfu
In Jack Schwager's Stock Market Wizards, Stuart Walton made >100%/year in his personal accounts before founding Reindeer Capital. I think you will need to be able to make at least high double digit returns with low drawdowns in your personal accounts before there is any possibility of managing...