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A weird day of trading

A weird day of trading

My portfolio is normally correlated with the market. When the market goes down, my stocks go down too. When the market goes up, my stocks go up too. Today I experienced a total opposite behavior. The market went down (except the beginning and end of trading, but all my stocks went up: Is this a Continue reading →

Posted by Martin June 19, 2014

Gold Gone? Germany baffled as Fed bars access to bullion

Everything is okay, no worries, gold is a dead asset. It produces nothing, it creates nothing, it pays no dividends, it is not needed, and it will go down even more.     So why the heck are Germans so baffled?

Posted by Martin June 18, 2014

Remember

 

Posted by Martin June 15, 2014

The Fed Is The Great Deceiver

The Fed Is The Great Deceiver

Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler Is the Fed “tapering”? Did the Fed really cut its bond purchases during the three month period November 2013 through January 2014? Apparently not if foreign holders of Treasuries are unloading them. From November 2013 through January 2014 Belgium with a GDP of $480 billion purchased $141.2 billion of Continue reading →

Posted by Martin June 14, 2014

College Conspiracy – The Next Bubble

 

Posted by Martin June 14, 2014

Walmart: The High Cost Of Low Prices

 

Posted by Martin June 13, 2014

In Debt We Trust, America Before the Bubble Bursts

   

Dreaming of my retirement

Many times I day dream of my retirement and how nice it would be when I have all my accounts up to speed and finally taking fruits out and spending it for my leisure (and bills). I have two types of dreams – one is about what everything I want to do when I retire. Continue reading →

New Trade: Bull Put Spread: DEC14 TEVA

New Trade: Bull Put Spread: DEC14 TEVA

Today I opened a new trade against TEVA. The stock recently triggered a break out from a longer term squeeze and both indicators I watch are pointing for an uptrend move. Both indicators (Bollinger bands and Keltner channel) provide me with 70% chance that the stock movement direction will follow indicator’s direction. And because I Continue reading →

Stocks retreat taking some break as I expected

Stocks retreat taking some break as I expected

Stocks retreated today. I didn’t have time to check why actually it was happening, but honestly, I do not care. I look at the market trend and stocks trends from technical analysis perspective and trying to eliminate the noise media are creating every day. What I see is an insignificant pullback on 1 year chart Continue reading →