Do you know the Counterparty Credit Risk of your ETFs and ETNs?
(GlobeInvestor) "ETNs expose investors to the risk of losing all or most of their principal. That's because ETNs are set up as unsecured, long-term ...
November 4th, 2011 |
Sloping or Horizontal Trendlines – Which are more trustworthy for trading?
(StockChartist) "I often cringe when I see charts posted on other sites where the author inserts a sloping trendline and then jumps to the conclusion ...
November 3rd, 2011 |
People suck at multitasking – a few simple rules for Increasing Productivity
(ContrarianEdge) "Investing is not an idea-per-hour profession; it more likely results in a few ideas per year. A traditional, structured working environment creates pressure to ...
October 26th, 2011 |
On Being Contrarian, don’t fight the crowd just for the sake of it
(RobertSinn) Being a “contrarian” in the markets has become quite popular recently. Many market participants seem to think that they must be smarter than any ...
October 20th, 2011 |
The Perfect Storm: Lessons Learned from the DOW’s 1000 Point Flash Crash
Was the May 6th, 2010 intraday crash and recovery just another one of those once-in-a-lifetime rare anomalies -– a rare confluence of events coming together ...
May 19th, 2010 |
Martin Armstrong on Market Predictions and Objective vs Subjective Analysis
Martin Armstrong is the author of the Economic Confidence Model based on an 8.6 year business cycle theory inspired by the work of ...
November 11th, 2009 |
Only Goldman Sachs can get away with Illegal Insider Trading
It's kind of ironic how Martha Stewart became the poster child for cracking down on insider trading activity, even though it was never even proven ...
August 20th, 2009 |
Trading for Control and Avoiding the Confidence Trap
Most traders and investors at one time or another have fallen into the “confidence” trap. Sometimes it’s a result of believing in the infallibility ...
July 24th, 2009 |
DENDREON’S 70% PORK OVER BY THE NASD
Here's to another great oversight job by the SEC and the NASD. For anyone who caught any of the trading in Dendreon today (NASD:DNDN), ...
April 28th, 2009 |
MAKE SOME PORK FROM THE SWINE FLU OUTBREAK!
Another year, and another pandemic-potential flu virus outbreak. This year's hoopla is over the swine influenza (H1N1) virus (swine flu) outbreaks in pigs which ...
April 26th, 2009 |
