The slope of Volume on the markets has been down for some time now and I’ve mentioned it several times. Market Volume is simply the number of shares trading hands each trading day. Reduced volume over time is a key symptom of the markets during the Great Depression years. I’m…
There is a tendency to compare the merits of investing in Gold, Oil, the Dollar, and the Equity indexes like the S&P, Dow, and more. There are multiple ways to approach this, and many have simply looked at the charts, long, short, and intermediate. Many approaches have nothing to do…
The NYSE was sold out yesterday to the German Boerse exchange in a merger deal. A major icon of our American ingenuity and capitalist structure has truly been sold out to a foreign entity. Even if they try to say Americans still have an interest in it, it’s like you…
Call it Investing, call it Risk Taking, call it Speculation, call it Stock Picking, or even call it Gambling if you must, but realize there is an art to the process and avoiding such truth is the opposite of opportunity. Investors used to make money because someone worked at it,…
Business owners already know that gross, margin, and net are the only things that matter when evaluating whether a company is doing well or not. At the beginning of the day we all know that you have to make a profit or nothing matters.
Business owners get trapped into the same mentality, believing they need the bank to be in business when the opposite it true.
The economy can continue to post lower numbers and the markets move higher. Why?
Currently we must assume that a much larger portion of all stocks will not go up in value and that a very narrow group will.
This indicator really told the story of how far over-bought the market was, and how far it could drop to reach the bottom