via Carl Swenlin Last week we were looking at a rising wedge formation, which we said normally resolves downward. This week price moved through the bottom of the wedge sideways, but that doesn’t really qualify as a downward resolution, which would …
Look for more of the same craziness in 2018 as long as the printing presses continue. What do you think? We have thousands of indicators to watch out for. But there are two that stand out in front of the …
The Next Financial Crisis Will Be Worse Than the Last One The Fed and Debt Bubbles The Federal Reserve raised rates three times this year. With trepidation that more or larger hikes would cause a market meltdown (because cheap money has …
Total revolving #credit is nearing all-time highs made during the financial crisis. If times are so good, why pull out the charge cards? h/t @Lemieux_26 “The market is net short the most 5-year contracts ever,” H/T .@kevinmuir The “most important …
@NorthmanTrader There’s overwhelming evidence that the U.S. stock market is heading for disaster The economy is more leveraged than ever First up is Grant Williams, who sent me a monumental slide deck. Here’s an example of craziness: Grant Williams …
The stock market’s record-breaking run keeps going, but for how long? John Templeton, the late investing guru, once said bull markets in stocks “mature on optimism” before they eventually “die on euphoria.” Chalk up 2017 as another year of maturity …
"Sell The News": Investors Unexpectedly React To Tax Reform With Near-Record Redemptions https://t.co/Gzcp4L5v3F — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 22, 2017 Ron Paul On Bitcoin: “Our Problems Are Gigantic, People Are Desperate And Looking Everywhere” The former Republican presidential candidate, argues that …
From Jeff Clark, Editor, Market Minute: There’s a cop car parked next to a stop sign at the bottom of a hill in my neighborhood. Nobody is in the car. It’s just parked there – with its red and blue lights …
Former Reagan White House Budget Director David Stockman says, “The central banks realize they cannot keep printing money at these crazy rates, and by that I mean the bond buying. Now, they are going to begin to normalize and shrink …
By Michael Snyder We have never seen a better year for stocks in all of U.S. history. Just five days after Donald Trump entered the White House, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit the 20,000 mark for the first time …
In the city/country you live in, has real estate become unaffordable? Let me know. Take a look around. Most major cities are experiencing a housing boom as if the money was free. When you look at how low mortgage …
There are cycles that occur which make it possible for us to track in order to predict the movement of the stock market. As time goes on, we see the markets entering levels that are unsustainable. Every indicator is off …
Exuberant stock market, disappearing middle class, history repeats itself [ A 32-year-old mother of 7 children called Florence Owens Thompson, Nipomo, California. February 1936.] One in five American households have ‘zero or negative’ wealth U.S. homes have regained value since …
by moneymetals https://s3.amazonaws.com/ILB_MS_BUCKET/ILB-171208-WeeklyMarketWrap.mp3 DOWNLOAD MP3 Don’t want to listen? Read the podcast below! Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason. Coming up we’ll hear a truly explosive interview with Michael Pento of Pento Portfolio Strategies. Michael describes for …
Don't be alarmed, but last time this happened stocks corrected -30%… pic.twitter.com/4e5g0eBkTn — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 8, 2017 Market Remains Overvalued The chart below differs from the one above in that the two valuation ratios (P/E and Q) are adjusted …
by Dana Lyons The percentage households’ financial assets currently invested in stocks has jumped to levels exceeded only by the 2000 bubble. Updating one of our favorite data series from the Federal Reserve’s latest Z.1 Release, we see that in the …
Quantitative Easing (QE) and Equity and Credit Performance pic.twitter.com/bPE6kXGSiN — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 5, 2017 CenBanks are the biggest risk to asset prices and the global economy. El-Erian's preview of major central banks in 2018. https://t.co/AxLEEKmMbk pic.twitter.com/2UtGcN3VH9 — Holger Zschaepitz …
by John Ward The media’s macro portrait of ‘everything’s alright really’ looks like the daubings of an infant when you get closer to the canvas. Nowhere is this more apparent than than in the micromadness of the US Car sector. …
People fall into the same patterns in their daily lives. Habits form very easily. As habitual creatures, we look for patterns which we can align with and feel comfortable. In the stock market, investors, and algorithms, trading on investors behalf, …
By Michael Snyder The absurdity that we are witnessing in the financial markets is absolutely breathtaking. Just recently, a good friend reminded me that the Dow peaked at just above 14,000 before the last stock market crash, and stock prices …
From Birch Gold Group A market never crashes without giving some warning signs that danger is ahead. And when it comes to protecting your wealth, ignorance is never bliss. Here are 5 red flags occurring in the market right now that …
From Porter Stansberry in Stansberry Digest: Oh boy, did I set off the ‘boo birds’… In last week’s Digest, I (Porter) discussed a number of troubling warning signs that are emerging and that could emerge next year. I wrote that investors should “start selling.” And that …
by Chris This is going to make a potentially ugly candle formation. Ouch!! That’s going to leave a mark on all entrants to the game who jumped in (or deeper in) in the last 24 hours. Bitcrash Update…FAST Market! Now …
Does this mean that you should sell everything and go to “cash?” Of course not. However, it does mean that as an investor you should critically analyze your past personal behavior during market advances AND declines. If you are like MOST investors, it is likely …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Pointing at “excesses,” “distortions,” and “imbalances.” Margin debt in the stock market hit another record, $561 billion at the end of October, up 16% from a year ago, the New York Stock Exchange reported on Tuesday. …
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the recent plunge in Chinese stocks. The Chinese blue-chip index suffered the worst day in 17 months after a MASSIVE plunge. Investors cited rising bond yields and regulatory burdens …
by Lance Roberts It is always refreshing to step away from the keyboard for a few days and hit the “reset button,” which is exactly what I did last week. My wife and I took a quick trip to Mexico to get …
By LV Short people got no reason Short people got no reason Short people got no reason To live They got little hands And little eyes And they walk around Tellin’ great big lies They got little noses And tiny …
by Chris Black This just in, from Brussels, with love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDxcQgmQYU0 Riots at Christmas market in Brussels. Arabs storm the area. THIS is what regressive Democrats want for us and our children. Gun control leaves the populace undefended there. …
From Jeff Clark, Editor, Delta Report: The junk bond market is selling off hard. The less-than-investment-grade sector of the corporate bond market peaked about one month ago. The decline started slowly enough. But it picked up steam last week. And now, …