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The Five Day Advance Decline Thrust Model

{ Posted on Feb 15 2010 by Babak }
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This is a guest post by Wayne Whaley, CTA: There are many different variation of thrust models. Some are based on price, some on volume, and many on breadth. Thrust is a way of measuring how much testosterone a market’s ...Read More »

The Yellow Brick Road To Emerging Markets

{ Posted on Feb 14 2010 by Babak }
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Guest Post by Jeff Clark, Editor of Casey’s Gold & Resource Report: Many conventional U.S. brokers are relatively clueless when it comes to gold stocks. If you asked them to name one, chances are it would be a domestic producer, ...Read More »

Weekend Reading: A Big Fat Greek Bailout

{ Posted on Feb 13 2010 by Babak }
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While technically the Euro Union treaty does not allow for a bailout, that is exactly what is being discussed frantically. I’m sure the finance ministers will be very creative and somehow abide by the letter of the treaty while skirting ...Read More »

Sentiment Overview: Week Of February 12th, 2010

{ Posted on Feb 12 2010 by Babak }
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Here’s this week’s sentiment summary: Sentiment Surveys The weekly retail investor option sentiment gauge from the AAII showed a small uptick in bullish sentiment (from 29.2% to 36.8%). Meanwhile, those expecting the stock market to decline in the following 6 months were ...Read More »

Putting Gold’s Recent Weakness In Perspective

{ Posted on Feb 12 2010 by Babak }
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I don’t want to harp on gold too much but since we discussed the various gold sentiment measures recently and the Rydex traders rushing out at the shallow correction, I wanted to also provide a long term perspective. Back when taxi ...Read More »

Gold Sentiment: Dumb Money Rushes Out

{ Posted on Feb 12 2010 by Babak }
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A few weeks back we looked at the precious metal sector because the Rydex traders had suddenly dropped their enchantment with the gold sector in response to the small weakness in gold and gold stocks. Usually when these myopic traders ...Read More »

Copper/Gold Ratio As Predictor For S&P 500

{ Posted on Feb 11 2010 by Babak }
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On Wall Street copper is give the title of “Dr. Copper” because of its ability to predict future economic activity. When the price of copper falls relative to its prior annual price, we usually head into a recession. But we ...Read More »

The Greek Stock Market & Baltic Dry Index

{ Posted on Feb 11 2010 by Babak }
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The problems in Greece have roots that go back many years but the financial crisis that gripped the world in 2007 and 2008 hit the Greek economy especially hard because their most important sector, shipping, went into complete shock as ...Read More »

Bernanke’s Exit Plan: Another Giveaway To Bankers

{ Posted on Feb 10 2010 by Babak }
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Bernanke outlined today the Fed’s exit strategy. You can read Bernanke’s prepared remarks here at the Federal Reserve website. While he mentioned a handful of tools at the disposal of the Fed, Bernanke was careful to outline a plan in ...Read More »

Equities At Important Low… If This Is Still A Bull Market

{ Posted on Feb 10 2010 by Babak }
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Is this the end of the much maligned and hated cyclical bull market? or is it just another correction like the ones we’ve seen before? I don’t pretend to know what is going to happen in the market (my crystal ...Read More »
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