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 Submitted By Bill Luby
As far as I can tell, I have not yet posted about the use of Bollinger bands in conjunction a rate of change (ROC) indicator to identify volatility breakouts. In summarizing the action in the VIX over the course of the past two weeks, the chart below captures some of the drama in terms of 10%...
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 Submitted By Tim Price
“Alternative 1: on average there is more than one ownership claim on each gold bar conforming to London Good Delivery.. Essentially, the market operates on a fractional reserve basis.. If it is true, the next phase in the gold bull...
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Submitted By Jim Picerno
Today's update on October's employment status is neither surprising nor encouraging. The U.S. economy is still bleeding jobs, but that's hardly shocking at this point. It's been clear for some time now that the risk of a jobless recovery is...
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 Submitted By Tim Iacono
The Labor Department reported that the unemployment rate in the U.S. hit its highest level since March of 1983, rising from 9.8 percent in September to 10.2 percent in October, as nonfarm payrolls saw a net decline of 190,000.During the early 1980s recessions, the jobless rate peaked at 10.8...
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 Submitted By Sal Mangano
How awful was today's non-farm payrolls report?
Let's start with the bad news:
Nonfarm payrolls for October fell 190,000, which is worse than the decline of 175,000 that had been widely forecast.
Job losses for the previous month were upwardly revised to reflect nonfarm job losses of...
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 Submitted By Trent Hamm
I love cooking at home.
I used to hate cooking at home, though. I was awful at it. I burnt things. I messed up scrambled eggs beyond all recognition.
But over time, I got better at it. I started figuring out lots of little things that made the entire process smoother and made [...]...
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 Submitted By Mark McQueen
Leave it to a Kuwaiti cabinet minister to tell us like it is!
I had the good fortune of attending a luncheon yesterday hosted by law firm BLG. The guest of honour has Ahmad R. Al-Haroun, Minister of Commerce & Industry for Kuwait. He was a very personable and experienced man, just [...]...
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 Submitted By Prieur du Plessis
Long-term bond indicators have just reversed course for the first time since a buy signal was given at the beginning of 2007 and now indicate a primary sell signal. Read on...
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 Submitted By Michael Michaud
By D.R. Barton, Jr. of Van Tharp InstituteClick Here for Van Tharp Institute 2009 - 2010 Trading Workshops ScheduleIt’s been just a year since the credit / real estate bubble burst, and there is already serious discussion about another one...
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Hot Stories
 Submitted By Jeff Miller
When there has been a nice market rebound, we should expect to hear the familiar refrain: It is a stock picker's market. This wise-sounding expression means that it is no longer good enough to "buy the market" whether through index...
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Submitted By Mark McQueen
A few days late, but here is the quarterly report for our Mirror Fund. If you’ve already forgotten what the “fund” is about, Dragon Kevin O’Leary launched an equity fund during the summer of 2008 with the promise of unique stock market riches and index-beating private company deal flow...
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Submitted By Thicken My Wallet
How we react to many day-to-day situations is instinctive. When we run for the bus, our body sends oxygen to our legs. If we feel stress, adrenaline is produced to bring about a fight or flight response. If we disinterested in the conversation at hand, we cross our arms and avoid eye contact. Given...
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Submitted By Trent Hamm
Margaret writes in:
I have a twenty four year old daughter who is still living at home. She went away to college, but moved back in after college while looking for a job. She’s had a good job now for two years, but has made no move at all to move out. She [...]...
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 Submitted By Richard Wilson
EU Hedge Fund Regulation
EU Directive Could Cost Hedge Funds £2.9 billion
The European Union's new bill, the Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers, is expected to cost hedge funds and private equity firms up to £2.9 billion ($4.7 billion). Also, alternative investment firms will...
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Submitted By Thicken My Wallet
Imagine you invested in a mutual fund several years ago. You received dividends and, on sale, capital gains. Not soon after the sale of your units, the mutual fund is put into receivership or goes bankrupt. A few months after that, you receive a letter from the receiver or trustee asking for your...
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Submitted By Trent Hamm
Lately, I’ve been under a lot of stress – perhaps the highest level of stress I’ve been under since switching to a full-time writing career. I’m in absolute crunch mode with my second book, with a manuscript due in a few days. I’ve also been slowly moving into public speaking – and I...
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Submitted By Mark McQueen
As we spread the good word in the U.S.A. about Wellington Financial, I’ve come to appreciate just how differently various venture debt firms approach the same deal opportunity. CFOs try to find similiar threads between the various product offerings, but as with buying a car, you can’t always...
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Submitted By Prieur du Plessis
By André Coetzee, Kagiso Securities.
The seasonally adjusted Kagiso PMI rose to 47.6 index points in October from a revised 45.9 during September. Last month’s 1.7 index point gain is on top of a 6.4 point jump in September and confirms that SA manufacturing output is moving back towards...
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Submitted By Bill Luby
I was delighted to see the positive response to my draft trader stage development model, which I rolled out last Tuesday in a post with the unlikely title of Draft Trader Stage Development Model and put immediately to work in an option context in The Trader Stage Development Model and the Jump from...
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