By Dominic Picarda. While traders often casually refer to any upside that happens in the month of December as a “Santa Claus rally,” that name strictly refers to gains in the festive week itself. Early December, by contrast, has often seen the indices give up ground, rather than capturing it. My stance on the stock…
So many traders think the key to investment riches lies in buying at the bottom or selling at the top. Such a fine but misguided notion. The cold reality is that unless one has (illegal) inside information, you will only transact at these locations by pure happenstance. The best managers can enter a position in…
The Fed is busy doing everything in its considerable power to get credit (that is, debt) growing again so that we can get back to what it considers to be “normal.” But the problem is that the recent past was not normal. You may have already seen this next chart. It shows total debt in the U.S.…
By Filipe R. Costa While a lot of attention is focussed on America’s Quantitative Easing programme, there is another side of this story, developing on the other side of the balance sheet, on the other side of the world. This concerns the pace of asset creation on banks’ balance sheet. In America bank assets have…
By Zak Mir. One of the main reasons I asked to write for Spreadbet Magazine in the summer of 2012 was its no holds barred approach to the financial markets. I believe this attitude is vital for traders if they are to stand any chance at being successful. Without this edge, even the best strategy…
While US investors continue to drive their money away from the bond market in the direction of the ever rising stock market to exploit what they think is a great profit opportunity, everybody’s favourite Central Banker – Mr Ben Bernanke is most likely having a glass of California’s best whilst congratulating himself on the achievements…
By George Leong Technology and growth stocks have been the go-to stocks this year, as the NASDAQ broke above 4,000 on Monday for the first time since September 2000. But recall that 2000 was also the year the tech sector and NASDAQ collapsed after the index traded above 5,000 in March of that year. Now,…
By Zak Mir. It is very often the case that one should keep an eye on what is bubbling up on the bulletin boards, if only so that you look at the charting position/newsflow to check if there is a possible opportunity that you might otherwise have missed. In the case of the three shares…
We’ll, we been banging on about the latent value in much of the mining spectrum for the vast majority of this year and, as the year draws to an end, for us resolute bulls, it seems that Santa will not be making his entrance in this particular sector of the market. This blog has made…
