Today we look at an issue that is, in many ways, a follow up to what we wrote on Friday in Are the Machines in Charge? We were only half-joking in writing, “Shh, they might hear you….” But in reality the robots do trade based on cues found in o ...
Tag: financial markets
Blog Post - March 26th, 2012
All terms: commodities, Commodities, Derivatives, financial markets, Free Market, Gold, market fundamentals, S&P 500, Silver, Trade
Blog Post - February 16th, 2012
Fewer and fewer investors are participating in the stock market after $395 billion more dollars have left equity mutual funds than have gone in (below) since the summer of 2008 to the present (data source: ICI ).
NY stock exchange volume h ...
Feature - January 18th, 2012
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
--Denis Diderot
One of the most critical challenges for cycles investors is recognizing the signs that the market is turning. One sign that we probably are somewhere ...
All terms: Bull Market, cycles investing, financial markets, Gold, Scam, Fundamentals
Feature - January 11th, 2012
It’s fairly simple to see why Wall Street is an easy target. The monied status quo is always a target for the ire of the little guy. But beyond hating those who achieve financial success, a largely unproductive activity, it’s worth understanding what Wa ...
Feature - January 4th, 2012
If you have ever seen Akira Kurosawa’s legendary film, Rashomon , you understand the nature of shifting blame—and the damage it presents. In the film, a seemingly simple story is recounted by four different narrators—each of whom presents a compl ...
Blog Post - December 30th, 2011
Free markets and capitalism have been getting a bad rap for decades, providing disingenuous justification for all sorts of meddling by governments and central banks. The truth of the matter is that modern society has never really given free markets a ch ...
All terms: economy, financial markets, Free Market, Free Market, Government, India, Oil, Personal Finance
Blog Post - December 29th, 2011
Buckle your seatbelts for an action-packed year. It’s almost like 2011 is leaving us like the cliff-hanger ending of an old comic strip—can Europe be saved? Can the euro survive? Will deflation engulf the world? Stay tuned for the next episode… ...
Blog Post - December 9th, 2011
Although Occupy Wall Street, now morphed into Occupy Your Foreclosed House, Occupy [fill in the blank] Campus (until it’s time to go home for Christmas break), Occupy City Hall, etc., has yet to clearly identify a focus, the movement seems to be coagula ...
All terms: Bonds, financial markets, Government, Monetary Policy, Tax, United Kingdom, Wall Street
Blog Post - April 1st, 2011
Investing is often as much an exercise in discipline as it is an exercise in research, analysis, and study. Half the battle is ignoring the talking heads rattling off misinformation day after day on television, radio, and the newspapers. In Is Gold ...
Feature - December 22nd, 2010
The premise behind floating currencies is that allowing markets to determine currency exchange rates will rectify trade imbalances and ensure mutually beneficial global commerce. The only problem is, in the real world, floating currencies don’t really ...