Saturday, October 28, 2017
Markets Big Macro Play Ahead / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates
By: Gary_Tanashian
At NFTRH, we are about major macro turning points above all else. Of course, it is often years between these turning points or points of significant change so we are also about the here and now, and managing the trends, Old Turkey style.*
Since we are all learning all the time, I have no problem admitting to you that while right and bullish on commodities and stocks in 2009, after becoming bullish on the precious metals in Q4 2008, I completely ignored Old Turkey due to my inner biases. The result has been that after taking excellent profits from the precious metals bull, personally, I have greatly under performed the stock market bull despite holding a bullish analytical view for the majority of the post-2012 period.
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Saturday, October 28, 2017
Trading Forex with Elliott Doesn't Have to be Complicated / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
Watch a simple lesson on Elliott waves from Chief Currency Strategist Jim Martens
Understanding the Wave principle doesn't have to be hard. In fact, as you'll see in this 5-minute clip, learning from EWI's Chief Currency Strategist Jim Martens can be downright entertaining.
Watch as the 30-year veteran analyst explains how learning to use Elliott waves can be as simple as counting to 5 and knowing your A-B-Cs!
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Saturday, October 28, 2017
Fed/ECB Strangle Stocks Bull Market / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Zeal_LLC
This epic central-bank-easing-driven global stock bull is starting to be strangled by the very central banks that fueled it. This week the European Central Bank made a landmark decision to drastically slash its quantitative easing next year. That follows the Fed’s new quantitative-tightening campaign just getting underway this month. With CBs aggressively curtailing easy-money liquidity, this stock bull is in serious trouble.
The US flagship S&P 500 broad-market stock index (SPX) has powered an incredible 280.6% higher over the past 8.6 years, making for the third-largest and second-longest bull market in US history! The resulting popular euphoria, a strong feeling of happiness and confidence, is extraordinary. So investors brazenly shrugged off the Fed’s September 20th QT and the ECB’s October 26th QE-tapering announcements.
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Saturday, October 28, 2017
How to choose the most reliable forex broker? / Currencies / Forex Trading
By: Kavinesh_A
Who is a forex broker?
A forex broker or a foreign exchange broker is a firm that provides a platform to the traders to buy or sell foreign currencies. The forex broker is not an individual person but an organization backed by banks, financial institutions, hedge funds, investment management firms etc. Their functions are regulated by the central banks or other regulatory authorities to allow traders trade in the forex market. The forex market is a huge market that is not dominated by any single authority but links a huge network of exchanges and brokers in the global platform. The foreign exchange market is the largest financial market that witnesses a huge amount of transactions every day. Traders from across the world participate in the forex market to earn huge money while selling or buying currencies.
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Saturday, October 28, 2017
CIA and FBI Prevent Trump Releasing JFK Assassination Smoking Gun Files / Politics / US Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Despite much fanfare and great expectations, President Trump barely released 10% of the files that were supposed to have been released on the JFK assassination after the FBI and CIA arm twisted Trump into withholding the full release of some 28,000 files under the excuse of impacting on National Security, protecting long dead sources, despite the fact that by law ALL of the files should have been released.
Saturday, October 28, 2017
New Smiggle Pencil Cases Shopping Trip Haul / Personal_Finance / Shopping
By: Anika_Walayat
Hi friend's, here's how we shopped for our newest Smiggle pencil case and other super cool stuff that we stuffed it full of.
If only I could have got a diamond ring as well :)
Enjoy.
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Friday, October 27, 2017
Bitcoin Might Test All-time High / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Mike_McAra
Is Bitcoin in bubble territory? Certainly, the price pattern this year looks like an exponential one, at least locally, but there are also opposing views. In an article on CNBC, we read:
[William] Bernstein is a neurologist who began writing about investing in the 1990s, soon becoming a best-selling author and drawing the admiration of legends such as Vanguard's Jack Bogle for his clear and rational analysis. He is best known for books such as "The Intelligent Asset Allocator" and "The Four Pillars of Investing" that show independent investors how to manage their money for the long term. He is currently retired as a doctor, but co-principal at Efficient Frontier Advisors, a money management firm for the very wealthy.
Friday, October 27, 2017
Volatility on Steroids / Politics / Social Issues
By: Raul_I_Meijer
It’s been a while since we last heard from longtime friend of the Automatic Earth Dr. Nelson Lebo III, New Englander living in Wanganui, New Zealand. Nelson has written a fine collection of articles on this site through the years.
Of course I thought, when I first saw this piece in my mailbox, that he would have written about New Zealand’s new prime minister, Labour’s 37-year-young Jacinda Ardern, whose first action in her new job will be to prevent foreigners from buying existing homes in her country. It’ll be interesting to see how she intends to do so while remaining inside the Trans Pacific Partnership -TPP- agreement.
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Friday, October 27, 2017
Catalonia Declares Independence, Commits Suicide, New Spanish Civil War Imminent / Politics / Spain
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Calm Before the Storm -The Spain / Catalonia crisis has continued to worsen with each passing day with growing bitterness as each side has sought to up the anti with the Catalans threatening to declare Independence whilst the Madrid regime threatening direct rule and imprisonment of subversives has today come to a head following the Catalan Parliament voting to unilaterally declare Independence from Spain. This prompted the Spanish parliament in Madrid to vote for direct rule over Catalonia, taking control over the regions police, financial institutions and broadcast media that sows the seeds for new Spanish civil war.
Friday, October 27, 2017
China’s Importance in the Gold Market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
China has been accumulating a lot of bullion over the past decade. It is also the largest producer of gold in the world and – along with India – one of the biggest consumers of the yellow metal. According to the World Gold Council’s data on the second quarter of 2017, China accounts for about 28.6 percent of the jewelry demand, and for about 26 percent of total bar and coin demand. And China – with its almost 1843 tons of gold – owns the fifth largest gold reserves in the world.
Friday, October 27, 2017
Russia Buys 34 Tonnes Of Gold In September / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: GoldCore
– Russia adds 1.1 million ounces to reserves in ongoing diversification from USD
– 34 ton addition brings Russia’s Central Bank holdings to 1,779t; 6th highest
– Russia’s gold reserves are at highest point in Putin’s 17-year reign
– Russia’s central bank will buy gold for its reserves on the Moscow Exchange
– Russia recognises gold’s role as independent currency and safe haven
Friday, October 27, 2017
Bullish Opportunity in Crude Oil - Watch Out! / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Enda_Glynn
My Bias: topping in a large correction wave [4].
Wave Structure: Double combination higher in wave [4] red.
Long term wave count: wave [4] target $70
Friday, October 27, 2017
Description of DAX German Stock Index / Stock-Markets / Germany
By: Kavinesh_A
A stock exchange is that thing where the stocks, shares can be bought or sold by traders and stock brokers. Lots of facilities are provided by the stock exchange including different types of financial issues or any payment of dividends and income. There are several listed companies which are traded on stock exchange. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, October 27, 2017
China’s 2017-22 Leaders, Grand Strategy and Policies / Politics / China
By: Dan_Steinbock
After the 19th Congress, Xi’s China is preparing for a new roadmap domestically and internationally. This is Dr. Dan Steinbock’s in-depth analysis of China’s critical changes that will shape the world economy until 2022 - and beyond.As the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) opened in Beijing, General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered a report about “building a moderately prosperous society” for a new era. In his speech, Xi offered a blueprint for China’s development for the next 5-15 years.
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Friday, October 27, 2017
U.S. Stocks: A Sentiment Extreme You MUST Pay Attention to / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: EWI
Here's what it's telling you about this bull market
Robert Kelley, the editor of our US Stocks Intraday Pro Service, tells you about a sentiment extreme that he's seen recently. Watch this new interview to find out what has caught his attention and what they mean for U.S. stocks going forward.
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Friday, October 27, 2017
Here’s Why Stocks and Home Runs Are at All-Time Highs / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: EWI
By Alan Hall, senior analyst at the Socionomics Institute
This article was originally published on CNBC under the headline "Home Runs and Strikeouts Can Track the Stock Market."
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Why in the world would Major League Baseball home run statistics track the U.S. stock market?
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Friday, October 27, 2017
Apple Legend Steve Wozniak Says Bitcoin Is Better Than The Phony US Dollar / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Jeff_Berwick
We’ve had a seemingly never-ending parade of crony capitalists, bankers, and politicians calling bitcoin everything from a “fraud” to “Enron” to “junk.”
Yesterday, though, a big name came out on the side of bitcoin. Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple.
Notice that while people like JP Morgan’s Jamie Demon and Mastercard CEO, Ajay Banga, have never actually created any real wealth in their lives, Wozniak played a very crucial role in the development of personal computers which has led to the internet… which led to bitcoin… which has created massive amounts of wealth and freedom for the world.
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Thursday, October 26, 2017
Bitcoin, Ethereum, How To Trade Cryptos Safely / Currencies / BlockChain
By: Avi_Gilburt
In our previous article, we briefly described, in layman’s terms, the technology underlying cryptocurrency. Then we described how to get started with your first cryptocurrency purchase. In this article we want to characterize the crypto trade so you can begin a journey toward successful trading. Cryptocurrency is a very volatile asset and perhaps the most volatile asset we have seen. We expect it to remain this way for some time.
On any given day, we might see certain cryptos move 100% or more. 10% moves in small cap coin are quite pedestrian. 3-5% daily moves in the larger coins are common. Therefore, the returns, both positive and negative, outstrip the stock market by many fold.
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Thursday, October 26, 2017
Eurozone Crisis Is Back, Gold Will Be Safe Haven Again In Looming EU Crisis / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: GoldCore
– Gold will be safe haven again in looming EU crisis
– EU crisis is no longer just about debt but about political discontent
– EU officials refuse to acknowledge changing face of politics across the union
– Catalonia shows measures governments will use to maintain control
– EU currently holds control over banks accounts and ability to use cash
– Protect your savings with gold in the face of increased financial threat from EU
Thursday, October 26, 2017
More Volatility As Stocks Retrace Some Of Their Recent Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Paul_Rejczak
Briefly:
Intraday trade: Our Wednesday's intraday trading outlook was bearish. It proved accurate because the S&P 500 index lost 0.5%, following neutral opening of the trading session. However, the market didn't reach our intraday profit target level of 2,535 (daily low at 2,544.00). The S&P 500 index may retrace more of its October rally. Therefore, intraday short position is favored again. Stop-loss is now at the level of 2,575 and potential profit target is at 2,535 (S&P 500 index).
Our intraday outlook is bearish today. Our short-term outlook is neutral, and our medium-term outlook is neutral:
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