Markets-Economics

The Entry Points When I was a young floor trader in Chicago, I was very fortunate to be friends/friendly with some extremely successful traders. I learned a tremendous amount from them. In many cases I […]

Forbes From 2006 to 2016, 7.5 million new households formed in the United States—but the number of homeowners fell by 1 million. The Census Bureau now pegs the homeownership rate at just 63.7%, near the lowest […]

Global government bonds are in a massive bear market, but markets don’t go in one direction every week. I’ve run this chart for TLT many times showing the selling climaxes, as a contrarian position in […]

The Entry Points Most modern day technical analysis is based on prices, so the moving averages going up gets people bullish. People always blindly follow prices with no context of any other factors. So a […]

By Tanya Agrawal   Reuters U.S. stock index futures were modestly higher on Thursday as investors turned their attention to President Donald Trump’s first significant policy test, as he looks to gets a healthcare bill […]

The Entry Points Trader Scott There were a lot of incompetent buyers of the US$ right into the highs in the US$. I warned about it repeatedly, and that we would see an upthrust in […]

When a market is in an uptrend, the reactions (backups) only serve to strengthen a market. Of course the trick is we need to judge the trend correctly. My belief remains that the $ is […]

Bloomberg There are plenty of reasons why BlueBay Asset Management LLP cut its holding in Venezuelan bonds, from the empty shelves in the supermarkets of Caracas to a nationwide dearth of spare auto parts. But […]

Bloomberg Oil fell as U.S. drilling continued to rise, undermining the potential for even an extended OPEC output-reduction deal to rebalance the market. Futures lost as much as 1.6 percent in New York after gaining 0.6 […]

The Entry Points Trader Scott The Fed is very sure of themselves, and the rate hikes are almost “assured” at this time. The problem is the Fed is clueless, and they never recognize a top […]