Soros says Europe has three months to avoid catastrophe

I don't pretend to know what's going to happen but I've said many times, the world would be much better off without the euro.  For reasons beyond my comprehension, the Europeans seem hell bent on…


Japan Is Never Going To Default, And The Kyle Bass Trade Will Be A Disaster - Business Insider

Kyle Bass's Most Famous Trade Is A Disaster, And It Is Never Going To Work Out Joe Weisenthal | May 20, 2012, 6:42 AM | 23,775 |   Kyle Bass was one of the handful of hedge funders who made a…


Sobering World Stock Charts from Yardeni Research

Just how bad is it out there?  Check out this blog site's download of stock market performance around the world.  You'll probably be surprised at which market is doing the best and not so surprised…


FOSL, Fossil scores 5 on our checklist

CHART- know how to read charts. I firmly believe I can improve the price of buying or selling from an understanding of chart action. Continues to stabilize after recent pullback and could be poised…


Spain’s Banking Rescue Should Become Example for Europe - Bloomberg

Spain’s Banking Rescue Should Become Example for Europe   Europe’s leaders can’t save their currency union without figuring out a way to salvage the region’s banks. Spain is a perfect place to…


RRTS, Roadrunner Transportation Systems socres 7 on the checklist

CHART- know how to read charts. I firmly believe I can improve the price of buying or selling from an understanding of chart action. No trends defined.  Looked as though it was poised for a rebound…


Technical Rally

My indicators are showing bullish divergence on all of the major future markets.  We could have a very tradable rally here in spite of the ugly headlines.  As is always the case, how much is being…


Venezuela best performing market

This interesting table supplied courtesy of the Financial Portal points out some of the folly of trend following and the merits of contrary investing.   When I was a broker at PaineWebber I used to…


Facebook IPO Seen Deepening Investor Distrust of Stocks - Bloomberg

Facebook IPO Seen Deepening Investor Distrust Of Stocks By Elizabeth Ody and Margaret Collins - May 25, 2012 10:01 PM MT Facebook Inc. (FB)’s initial public offering, plagued by trading errors and a…