Thursday, June 09, 2016
Which Presidential Candidate is Better for Gold? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: John_Mauldin
Hard Asset Alliance writes: Now that we’ve got the presidential race narrowed to three candidates, let’s examine which one might be better for gold investors.
2016 seems to be the year of the “alternative candidate,” and so hedge fund manager Dan Tapiero looked at how each candidate might impact the “alternative investment” of gold.
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Thursday, June 09, 2016
Swing Trading Day Trading / InvestorEducation / Forex Trading
By: Chris_Drinkwater
I have had a few questions lately from students regarding the difference between swing trading and day trading. At its core swing trading means holding for a few days or weeks whilst in day trading you execute the trade and close it in the same day. You may use the same strategy for either time frame.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, June 09, 2016
SPX is Testing Support / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
The SPX Premarket appears to be challenging the shelf of support at 2111.00. Today is a double Pivot day and 21 calendar days from the May 19 low. A reversal today would create a very left-oriented Cycle, which is bearish.
Thursday, June 09, 2016
Natural Gas Fails to Overcome Key Technical Level Despite Surge Higher / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: AnyOption
Although there is growing evidence to suggest that natural gas prices have broken out to the upside, recent price action over the last few sessions indicates that the rally has stalled and that key resistance remains in the way of a further climb. While fundamentals have not greatly changed over the last few weeks, natural gas prices have experienced a near 25.00% rally in just over two weeks. One of the key contributors remains higher average temperatures across the United States and predictions about the La Niña cycle will impact weather conditions going forward. However, should prices remain high, the falling rig count could conceivably reverse, bringing more supply to market and driving natural gas in storage even higher from current levels, adding to downside price pressures and causing natural gas to pullback from the current trend higher.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, June 09, 2016
Agri-Commodities Winning in 2016 / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
The inevitable just seems to keep coming around. That over time food would become scarcer in our world has been well known for decades. Simply put, global demand for food continues to expand. Inevitable scarcity of food for the world is occasionally hidden by short-term bursts of exceptionally good harvests. But, exceptionally good is not a normal state for world's Agri-Food production.
Thursday, June 09, 2016
Stocks Get Closer To All-Time High, As SP500 Trades Above 2,100 Mark - Will It Continue Higher? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Paul_Rejczak
Briefly: In our opinion, speculative short positions are favored (with stop-loss at 2,140, and profit target at 2,000, S&P 500 index).
Our intraday outlook is bearish, and our short-term outlook is bearish. Our medium-term outlook remains bearish, as the S&P 500 index extends its lower highs, lower lows sequence:
Intraday outlook (next 24 hours): bearish
Short-term outlook (next 1-2 weeks): bearish
Medium-term outlook (next 1-3 months): bearish
Long-term outlook (next year): neutral
Thursday, June 09, 2016
How Fiat Money Destroys Culture / Politics / Fiat Currency
By: MISES
Jörg Guido Hülsmann writes: It may seem unusual that an economist would talk about culture. Usually, we talk about prices and production, quantities produced, employment, the structure of production, scarce resources, and entrepreneurship.
But there are certain things that economists can say about the culture, and more precisely, that economists can say about the transformation of the culture. So what is culture? Well, to put it simply, it is the way we do things. This can include the way we eat — whether or not we dine with family members on a regular basis, for example — how we sleep, and how we use automobiles or other modes of transportation. And of course, the way we produce, consume, or accumulate capital are important aspects of the culture as well.
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Thursday, June 09, 2016
The Bull in The China Shop - The World Can No Longer Absorb China's Surplus / Economics / China Economy
By: Gordon_T_Long
ISSUE #1
The good news is that China produces more than it consumes. This is the opposite of the US which consumers more than it produces.
The bad news is that the world can no longer absorb China's surplus (Production minus Consumption). Global trade has slowed dramatically impacting Chinese exports. The problem is further compounded since China as the new global economic engine, has become the dominate importer of other countries production.
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Thursday, June 09, 2016
Stock Market Embraces Terrible News...What Else Is New..... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Jack_Steiman
A very interesting evening last night. We had two pieces of news that can only be understood as scary. The world bank came out and said they are cutting global-growth numbers based on poor demand and commodity prices. Horrific news, only to have China chime in with additional news. The Central Bank of China said their economy is in pain, and unfortunately there is further pain to deal with. No real hope as far as they can see. Folks, this is exactly the type of news that ends any up trend. In fact, it's the type of news that should absolutely hammer the market lower.
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Wednesday, June 08, 2016
Is the Fed Buying Stocks Outright to Prop Up the Markets? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Graham_Summers
“Someone” is getting desperate.
Throughout the last week, anytime stocks have begun to correct or drop, “someone” has bought S&P 500 futures to prop the market up.
Anyone who’s been involved with the markets for a while knows the difference between real buyers and manipulation. This is manipulation plain and simple.
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Wednesday, June 08, 2016
Will You Heed the New Signs of Economic Crisis? / Economics / Economic Collapse
By: MoneyMetals
Kermit Had an Excuse... But Americans Do Not. On December 7, 1941, Kermit Tyler, an untrained watch officer, was on duty when a radar operator reported to him that he was seeing a large "blip" on the radar screen headed towards Pearl Harbor. Thinking it was a flight of returning U.S. B-17 bombers, Kermit replied nonchalantly, "Don't worry about it."
The "blip" turned out to be the first wave of over 300 Japanese fighters and torpedo bombers bent on attacking U.S. naval and air assets, an act which would plunge the country into World War II.
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Wednesday, June 08, 2016
Investment in Cell and Gene Therapies Ramps Up / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
After decades of disappointment, cell therapies and gene therapies are finally seeing light at the end of the tunnel. Investors, investigators, clinicians, and patients with serious unmet needs are watching pivotal trials move into the home stretch. Yes. . .pivotal data are actually on the way.
Though the roadblocks that have held back development of cell and gene therapies since the mid-1990s have been expensive in terms of a lingering hangover with depressed valuations, investors are now looking at achievement in terms of meaningful endpoints.
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Wednesday, June 08, 2016
Learn to Recognize a Popular Old School Chart Pattern - Video / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
See examples of a head-and-shoulders pattern in a chart of SPY
A head-and-shoulders pattern is one of the most well-known classic chart patterns. In this 4-minute video from Jeffrey Kennedy's Trader's Classroom, you'll see an example of a bearish head-and-shoulders formation and a bullish, inverted head-and-shoulders pattern in the chart of SPY, the ETF that tracks the S&P 500. You'll also learn how to calculate the minimum expected target for the pattern.
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Wednesday, June 08, 2016
Two Months Ago, theThe Only Thing That Grows Is Debt / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis 2016
By: Raul_I_Meijer
Two months ago, there was a referendum in Holland about an association agreement between the EU and Ukraine. A relatively new Dutch law states that with an X amount of signatures a referendum can be ‘forced’ by anyone. Before, during and -especially- after the vote, its importance was -and is actively being- pooh-poohed by both the Dutch government and the EU. That in itself paints the issue better than anything else. Both the call and the subsequent support for the referendum stem from resistance against exactly that attitude.
Wednesday, June 08, 2016
Pensions In The UK and EU Going Bankrupt – Slow Motion Detonation of Pensions Timebomb - Video / Interest-Rates / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: GoldCore
Pensions in the UK, EU and internationally will go bankrupt as the long awaited ‘pensions time bomb’ detonates in slow motion.
Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the end of retirement which many Americans, Britons, Europeans and others will suffer as their pensions are decimated in the coming years due to zero percent interest rates and ultra loose monetary policies pursued for the benefit of banks and corporations.
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Wednesday, June 08, 2016
Gold and Silver Look Set for a Major Move Higher in June! - Video / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Mario_Innecco
hi it's Wednesday jun 8 2016, here home of alternative economics and contrarian thinking this morning i'm
going to be talking about gold and silver they made some knife nice moves on friday afternoon on farm payroll june
third it looks to me technically like when stay tuned first was the short term
bottom here for now in gold and silver and we've had a bit of consolidation
yesterday and on Monday gold and silver didn't really go anywhere but this
morning silver is up to . 3 % @ 1675 it's a around midday london time so seven
o'clock new york time gold is at 1253 so up almost ten dollars up . seven eight
percent and i'm going to do a little bit of technical analysis and i'll start out
with with silver and looking first at the short term chart of silver and to me
it looks like we bottomed on june first act 1582 and now I brought up the short
term chart here and you can see that from april we moved from 1478 on the
first of april that was the low end to a high of 1801 in on may first so that was...
Wednesday, June 08, 2016
Confluent Trading / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Submissions
Chris Drinkwater writes: In nature I seem to recall from some dim, distant geography lesson a confluence is where two rivers meet. In trading it is the meeting of 2 or more points of support or resistance, the more the merrier.Let's take a look at this gbp/usd 4 hour chart. We can see quite clearly that this has been in a downtrend for a while, then we get this sudden bullish movement at A.
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Wednesday, June 08, 2016
Fed Stance Likely to Pressure US Dollar, GBP Chart View / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Richard_Cox
Financial markets always have an overriding story and if we look at the news headlines that have been generated over the last few months, we can see that the focus is once again back on the Federal Reserve. Market opinions are still sharply divided: If incoming data is consistent with labor market conditions strengthening, an interest rate hike could be foreseen sooner than we think.
Wednesday, June 08, 2016
Vauxhall Zafira Fires Recall - What to Expect at Dealership Inspections, Heater Repairs / ConsumerWatch / Auto Sector
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Vauxhall announced a recall of all 220,000 UK Zafira B models in November 2015, as apparently they are prone to bursting into flames. And now finally after a 6 month long delay the day has arrived when my own Vauxhall Zafira which actually does have a failing heater i.e. is at high risk of catching fire, but still the dealership deemed as not needing a more speedy inspection hence the delay. Anyway find out what to expect at recall Inspections, repairs done and how long it all takes.
Wednesday, June 08, 2016
TLT & SPY Inverse Correlation / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Joseph_VanDerveer
Here is an interesting chart below showing TLT which is iSHARES 20 year plus Treasury Bonds exchange-traded fund.
The red arrows and comments represent major lows in SPY or QQQ's. The green arrows and comments represent major highs in SPY or QQQ's.
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