Category: Current Market
First Quarter of 2012 Ends Flying High – Is it Time to Jump Ship?
The first quarter of 2012 has accounted for the largest index gains in several years and has brought the S&P to a lofty 4 year high, just shy of levels reached prior to the 2008 debacle. Has the United States economy recovered and people once more can contribute to this prosperity or are these levels [...]
Confusion of the Rationalist
The market is cold and emotionless, it does not care about you. It does not hold any stance on your portfolio, your emotion or your wishes. It will just keep on moving whether you like it or not and no amount of prayer can stop it. You should be adapting, not hoping because like the [...]
Silver – Poor Man’s Gold Staging a Comeback
It is of no surprise that gold is readily approaching repeated record highs with many speculations that the previous record of 1923 to be shattered at some point this year. Uncertainties abroad and rapid inflation have put gold and other precious metals in the spotlight to not only preserve wealth, but to increase it. While [...]
Over Speculation of Copper
The price of copper has increased nearly 600% in 8 years (460% adjusted for inflation.) This obvious overindulgence in speculation is causing the prices of this industrial metal to reach record highs which puts a heavy burden on some important sectors that play a heavy role in the overall health of our economy. These heavily [...]
July 12th 2011 – All Signs Point South
The S&P dropped for its 3rd consecutive day to 1313 off of its monthly high of 1356 as it retraced some of their earlier gains. This should not have been much of a surprise as the markets moved up considerably over the past 2 weeks without a whole lot to back it up and with [...]
July 7th 2011 – The Tipping Point
Today brought very generous gains as many stocks and major indexes broke through their earlier resistance levels. Will the markets continue to support these levels and bring higher prices or will they meet new resistance quickly before making a run for it? With some very important data coming out tomorrow before the markets open, it [...]
