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Another up day for equities, and investors appear to be feeling pretty good about things. According to the S&P 500 Bullish Percent Index, investors haven’t felt this upbeat about things since January: Investors have been feeling on the up and up of late. Chart courtesy of StockCharts.com Unfortunately investor bullishness is a classic contrarian indicator […]
Here’s a great guest piece by Robert Prechter, author of what is currently my favorite investment newsletter, the Elliott Wave Theorist. Bob talks about a subject that’s probably as near and dear to your heart as it is mine – market herding. And if you want to read more, at the end of this piece […]
Burton Malkiel, author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street – because of course we all know that stock prices are subject to completely random movements – is starting a hedge fund to “go long China.” This story really is too good to be true. Chinese stocks quietly topped last August. Burton is timing the […]
Speaking of contrarian investment indicators, they don’t get much better than this. Fidelity.com posted a listing in a prominent public relations newsletter today: Summary: Buying stocks again?Name: Chris Taylor (Fidelity.com)Category: Business and FinanceEmail: query-100@helpareporter.comMedia Outlet: Fidelity.comDeadline: 07:00 PM EST – 20 JanuaryQuery: Looking for investors who are shifting some of their cash holdings back into […]
Regular readers know that I’m a big fan of Bob Prechter’s investment analysis. One of my favorite aspects of his work is the use of sentiment indicators as a market timing mechanism – that is, when everyone is bearish, you should be greedy, and when everyone is bullish, you should run for the hills. In […]
So Gold CAN Still Go Down, After All Last week was shaping up to be another banner one for gold, as the old relic kept on climbing, day after day…that is, until it stopped. Gold’s one-way rise experienced a sharp setback on Friday, dropping nearly $50 on the day, and over $60 in intraday measures. […]
You know a top just HAS to be near! I know I’ve been early on this call – or wrong (same thing) – for a few months now. But this had to take the cake. There I was, tying the laces on my sneakers, getting ready to walk my dog Banjo on this crisp, cool […]
On Friday I was having a discussion with my friend about inflation, speculating about what may happen to stock prices if inflation were to take hold. Both of us are big fans of Marc Faber, so we were discussing the scenario that Faber has been predicting – that if cash is about to become trash […]
Gold Featured on…Saturday Night Live!? The latest sign that the gold market may be a little overheated right now…Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update featured investment analysis from Scrooge McDuck! http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/update-scrooge-mcduck/1165594/ Shout out and thanks to my good buddy Super Joe for sending this one along! New Reports of the Dollar’s Demise: Greatly Exaggerated? From London’s […]
I thought it’d be fun to peruse the Wall Street Journal to see if we could glean some insights into current investor sentiment. Mainstream business publications are famous for (unintentionally) signaling tops and bottoms in markets – but is this really the case, or more of an old wives tale than truth? I couldn’t think […]
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