2014 Gold Rally, Inverse Correlation Trend To Stocks & Real Interest Rates The Two Simple Reasons Gold is Gaining By Brendan Conway It's straightforward, so put away your charts of exchange-traded fund flows and forecasts for Chinese gold demand. Why is Gold (GLD) rallying? 1. Stocks lately are no longer rising at a historic pace. 2. U.S. real interest rates have...
10 Timeless Trading Rules Ten Tidbits Of Trading Wisdom by Adam Sarhan There are little tidbits of wisdom that I have picked up over my years; here is a list of some things that all traders should take to heart: 1. Don't apply logic to the stock market So often I see people make decisions in the market on what makes...
Emerging Markets Currency 'Contagion' Spreads By Katrina Bishop Emerging market currencies continued to take a beating amid growing worries about political upheaval, slowing growth and U.S. monetary policy, prompting central bankers and policy makers to scramble for a response. Turkey's lira (Turkey ETF: (TUR)) hit a new record low against the dollar and Argentina's peso (Argentina ETF: (ARGT)) was down 14 percent...
12 Hedge Fund Market Wizard Trading Lessons A Market Wizards Dozen: Key Lessons For All Traders by Jack Schwager What separates exceptional traders from the vast majority of participants? The quest for an answer to this question was the motivation for my first Market Wizards book written nearly 25 years ago. Although I did get some satisfactory answers in that...
Key Gold Technical Levels & Big Volume In Ultra Gold Miners ETFs Major Buy Signal in the Precious Metals Sector in the Next 2 – 3 Weeks By Toby Connor It’s been my opinion for the last several weeks that Gold (GLD) formed an intermediate degree bottom on December 31. That being said, I’m still a bit nervous that the sector...
THE 10 COMMANDMENTS OF TRADING I've had a number of new traders over the last few months ask me what tips I can give them, so I thought I would take the opportunity here answer them. These are by no means the only "commandments" of trading, and if you have some suggestions, please feel free to list them in the...
Goldman Sachs Strategist: Stock Valuations Are Lofty Goldman’s Chief US Equity Analyst: Kostin: Stocks are starting to look overvalued Equity investors take heed: One prominent strategist thinks the S&P 500 index’s (SPX) (SPY) valuation is “lofty by almost any measure”. David Kostin of Goldman Sachs (GS) writes that the current price-to-earnings multiple on the S&P 500 is about as high as...
10 Reasons Not To Be A 'Perma' Gold Bull (Or A 'Perma' Anything) 10 Reasons the Gold Bugs Lost Their Shirts by Barry Ritholz, Bloomberg.com It has been quite the ride for gold: from under $500 an ounce a decade ago, to above $1,900 in 2011, gold gained more than 400 percent. Since its peak of ~$1,921.15 on Sept. 6,...
Forecasting Model Gives 0% Probability Of An Imminent Bear Market data by Robert Lamy, http://www.theforecastingadvisor.com/ Where the U.S. Stock Market Cycle Is Heading? The Current Bull Market in Historical Perspective In three months, the current bull market will be five years old. As of December 2013, the S&P 500 (SPX (SPY) stock price index has risen by 139% from the bottom...
Byron Wien's 10 Economic Surprise Predictions For 2014 Byron Wien Announces Predictions for Ten Surprises for 2014 Byron R. Wien, Vice Chairman, Blackstone Advisory Partners, just issued his list of Surprises for 2014. This is the 29th year Byron has given his views on a number of economic, financial market and political surprises for the coming year. Byron defines a "surprise" as...
