Inflation. Is it here? Is it coming back?

the choice of this blog’s title comes from our forecast that the next inflationary bust-up and bust-down will be in approx. the year 2035.  Now, only the brave, and/or foolish will go on record here in 2008 (and when this blog was started in 2007) with a title like this.  I believe that there are […]

Technical Analysis in the news

A Technical Analyst was interviewed on BNN.ca last week:
http://watch.bnn.ca/#clip110841
He’s not one of the market technicians that are better known to me, but I like his style and he is rather clear–i like people who tend to use plain English.

Periodicity in the energy sector

this is uncanny. using a “money flow” technical indicator, past extremes in the recent past in 2008 for the energy sector have been:
May21st overbought
July 9th  oversold
Aug 29th overbought
Oct 16th  oversold
Dec 5th   overbought
 
sorry, december 5th hasn’t happened yet.  for that matter, November 5th hasn’t happened yet either.  How did I get december 5th?
 
May21-July 9th     49 days
July 9 - […]

It was the night before the US election, and not a creature was stirring….

excerpts from yesterday’s post at www.timingthemarket.ca:
Technical indicators continue to confirm that U.S. equity markets reached a capitulation low on October 10th. Many S&P 500 stocks subsequently have formed a broad three week trading pattern. Typical of a market that is in a base building phase! Many TSX stocks have formed similar patterns. Stocks in the […]

Two old hands comment on “diversification”

http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/08_43/b4105073900964.htm
 
from the oct 27/08 business week,  these two old guys make some comments that are not usually mentioned:
 
such as: what is your human capital?   do you have a steady job where your income doesn’t change in good times and bad?
if so, then your human capital is very stable, and in effect, can be converted to a […]