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They say a flat yield curve and low rates in general is bad for banks. Growth and inflation expectations were crushed way out there on the curve with that job report. German 10 year Bund is at +6 friggin(down from 100 bp. last year)basis points! Look at the multi year high in the Note/Bund...

Correlation of two sets of equities may be +.9 or better. In one set the "managed" equity may lag the performance of the index equity. In the 2nd set the "managed" equity may beat the index component. So, to make this work: Select 50 of the highest atr Nasdaq stocks with +.9 corr with QQQ. I...

I think your moniker could be improved by appending ZB

Nay Anyone looking at NUGT for a turn here? It might be supported by your expectations. Somewhat unrelated but the move in small cap indices is impressive over last two weeks.

Food,rent,medical and education prices increase beyond reported inflation. Trinkets and trash from low wage countries like flat screen tv's do not increase. Wages are flat. Last years easy comsumer credit has decreased todays and Tommorrows demand requiring still easier credit and lower...

Trading DAX and Hang Seng futures would give you allow you to trade starting at 3AM and 8PM US Eastern ST. respectively.

I liked to classify Parabolic indicator as a "with trend , breakout entry , stop on reverse system if you were going to use that one indicator exclusively. Seems that multiple reverses should be faded as this is chop at that parabolic length and a 2nd longer length indicator should be used to...

Great post. This may be a good fundamental model for stock and other asset market analysis. A professional security/asset analyst may also believe this to be true and find this quite annoying.

Someome should start a thread where contributors can post significant central bank messages and actions. There is a lot of activity in this area that seems to move markets.

Bullish descending triangle? 1) after a large price advance in a short period where "x" period atr spiked the offers increase. 2) "x" period atr slowly reverts to mean. 3) the price that will become the base in "x" periods is determimed as relative value and is bid whenever price descends...

16 years of high annual returns with, NO yearly drawdowns, NYSE stocks, using canned technical indicators, buy at the open with stops(implied they are tight stops). I would heed the suggestion to trade just a few shares risking very little. I have some fun(useless) software that can combine...

CPI surprised upside, Dudley is a hawk, No vote on Brexit(after June FOMC) is better than 50/50 odds yet an excuse for caution, 2nd qtr US GDP estimates around 2.5% , important NFP upcoming, China risk stable, oil rallying, China commodity bubble already released. Right now I measure only...

Gil Blake and Gary Smith come to mind. Blake truly found some tendencies and exploited them in the early "trading" days of Fidelity Sectors. Smith ( read his book) posts on ET. Ask him. He may respond.

What a commodity shitstorm yesterday and sp500, small caps , and financials up today.

Savers and hoarders will not be tolerated going forward. Why is this so difficult to understand when to some degree it is happenning now. Since when did politicians care about drug commerce ?

Buffet was the laughing stock of the town in the late 1990's amongst gunslinger traders making a killing. His poster investment at the time was KO (Coke) during the internet boom. What an idiot , as Infoseek and CMGI and their like were in play.

It does make me wonder why all the "make a living from it Traders" responding here are indeed day traders. Where are all the traders trading many markets in higher timeframes ? Amateurs can see that recently (2016) currencies and commodities are making some fantastic moves. I mean that in some...

SP500 is in new all time high levels vs USD. This is a huge swing easily outpacing any rally since 1/1/2015 (data shown in this chart). Thanks to FED. Stocks, cash, negative rates or commodities? Some choices will be punished. Steel vs USD will break your heart. Fuggetaboutit! Where is Jimmy...

The yield on the 3 month treasury bill is 22bp. The yield on the June 2016 3 month Eurodollar futures contract is 64 bp The difference between the above two rates is the TED spread (risk free 3 month UST vs. 3 month LIBOR)..... See link below...

No, not at all. I have learned a lot from these (now we know) financial professionals on Zerohedge. You do have to strongly filter their opinion from the data. No?