Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Santa's Grotto Peace Gardens Sheffield Christmas Lights 2020 vs 2019 / Local / Sheffield

By: Eliza_Walayat

Eliza's visit to Santa's Grotto at the Peace Gardens in Sheffield Christmas Lights 2020 vs 2019.

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Viable Ways to Finance a Used Car / Personal_Finance / Motoring

By: Steve_Barker

Picture this: you’ve already done your homework on how to choose which used car to buy, but you’re still unsure how you’re going to pay for it. You ask yourself if it’s a smart move to finance a used car just as how most people would on a new car. Compared to the latter, there are several risks in financing a used car.

Generally, getting an auto loan can help you buy a car that costs more than its value by doing monthly payments. It is a matter of knowing how to borrow wisely so you can fully enjoy the benefits of a car loan. Otherwise, you’ll end up losing more cash since used cars may have higher interest rates than brand new cars. Before you take your plan to another step, take into consideration the pros and cons when financing a car compared to paying in cash.

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Facebook Betting on Virtual Reality Future With Oculus Quest 2 / Companies / Virtual Reality

By: Nadeem_Walayat

This is a continuation of my in-depth analysis into the buying levels for the Top 10 AI stocks to ride the electron mega-trend the whole of which was first made available to Patrons who support my work so immediate first access to ALL of my analysis and trend forecasts then do consider becoming a Patron by supporting my work for just $3 per month.

• US Presidential Election 2020 Forecast Review
• Seeing Stock Market New Highs Through the Prism of AI
• Stock Market Dow Quick Take
• AI Stocks Buying Levels and EC ratio Explained
• Top 10 AI Stocks individual analysis i.e. for Google, Amazon, Apple etc.
• AI Stocks Buying Levels Q4 2020
• The Next IMMINENT Global Catastrophe After Coronavirus

6. Facebook $266

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Johnson & Johnson Biotech AI Stocks / Companies / BioTech

By: Nadeem_Walayat

This is a continuation of my in-depth analysis into the buying levels for the Top 10 AI stocks to ride the electron mega-trend the whole of which was first made available to Patrons who support my work so immediate first access to ALL of my analysis and trend forecasts then do consider becoming a Patron by supporting my work for just $3 per month.

• US Presidential Election 2020 Forecast Review
• Seeing Stock Market New Highs Through the Prism of AI
• Stock Market Dow Quick Take
• AI Stocks Buying Levels and EC ratio Explained
• Top 10 AI Stocks individual analysis i.e. for Google, Amazon, Apple etc.
• AI Stocks Buying Levels Q4 2020
• The Next IMMINENT Global Catastrophe After Coronavirus

5. Johnson & Johnson $146

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Why Solar and Wind Energy Can’t Save Us / Commodities / Energy Resources

By: Richard_Mills

Recently, British Petroleum (BP) went public in declaring that “peak oil demand” was reached in 2019. According to the oil major’s 2020 outlook, global oil demand will not regain levels reached last year, and that demand could soon fall rapidly, due to stronger climate action by countries, by at least 10% over the next 10 years, and up to 50% by 2040.

Demand for the fossil fuel has doubled over the past 50 years, reaching around 100 million barrels of oil per day (bopd) in 2019.

While earlier editions of BP’s outlook stated that global demand would continue rising steadily, peaking in the mid-2030s, the latest version sees the decline as much more dramatic, with peak demand already reached in 2019, and either slowing down or plateauing over the next three decades.

The magnitude of the fall in demand depends on the degree to which global carbon emissions are addressed/ cut by governments and industry. 

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Buy Silver NOW! / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020

By: The_Gold_Report

Peter Krauth provides the investment case for silver.

In many ways, most of us can't wait to put 2020 behind us and call it last year.

We've experienced a once-a-century global pandemic, infecting almost 80 million people. Lockdowns caused businesses to shutter and soaring unemployment, with massive economic consequences.

If you dig a little deeper, other costs include soaring debts and deficits worldwide. We're approaching an unfathomable $280 trillion in global debt. Governments and central banks have facilitated tens of trillions in stimulus spending this year alone, and it's far from over.

The U.S. is now passing its latest $900 billion stimulus bill, promising new stimulus checks, boosting unemployment, small business aid and funds for schools and universities.

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Coronavirus is Mutating / Politics / Pandemic

By: Jeff_Berwick

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Stock Market New All Time Highs Through the Prism of AI / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2020

By: Nadeem_Walayat

Stock markets are soaring on the back of vaccines that herald the end game to the Covid nightmare that as I speak is hitting new highs in the US and fast worsening second peaks across Europe. However, much as was for the March crash, the vaccines, covid-19 are all mere blips in the long-term trend trajectory that is being driven by AI and it's full spectrum application. For instance these are the key areas that I identified to focus upon some 5 years ago, though the number is always expanding as AI encroaches on every aspect of our lives which is why my focus is on core AI itself rather than derivatives of AI.

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Oculus Quest 2 VR Headset Unboxing First Impressions Review! / Personal_Finance / Virtual Reality

By: Anika_Walayat

The kids get their best christmas present, the latest VR headset from Oculus (Facebook), the Quest 2. So what dfoes the Oculus Quest 2, exactly come with, what's in the box, so that if you are considering buying one you don't get extras you don't need. And also give our first impressions when compared to other VR headsets such as the Samsung Gear.

Monday, December 28, 2020

Apple M1 SOC Chip Another Nail in Intel's Coffin - Top AI Tech Stocks / Companies / Apple

By: Nadeem_Walayat

This is a continuation of my in-depth analysis into the buying levels for the Top 10 AI stocks to ride the electron mega-trend the whole of which was first made available to Patrons who support my work so immediate first access to ALL of my analysis and trend forecasts then do consider becoming a Patron by supporting my work for just $3 per month.

• US Presidential Election 2020 Forecast Review
• Seeing Stock Market New Highs Through the Prism of AI
• Stock Market Dow Quick Take
• AI Stocks Buying Levels and EC ratio Explained
• Top 10 AI Stocks individual analysis i.e. for Google, Amazon, Apple etc.
• AI Stocks Buying Levels Q4 2020
• The Next IMMINENT Global Catastrophe After Coronavirus

Monday, December 28, 2020

Microsoft - Top 10 AI Tech Stocks Buying Levels Analysis / Companies / Microsoft

By: Nadeem_Walayat

This is a continuation of my in-depth analysis into the buying levels for the Top 10 AI stocks to ride the electron mega-trend the whole of which was first made available to Patrons who support my work so immediate first access to ALL of my analysis and trend forecasts then do consider becoming a Patron by supporting my work for just $3 per month.

• US Presidential Election 2020 Forecast Review
• Seeing Stock Market New Highs Through the Prism of AI
• Stock Market Dow Quick Take
• AI Stocks Buying Levels and EC ratio Explained
• Top 10 AI Stocks individual analysis i.e. for Google, Amazon, Apple etc.
• AI Stocks Buying Levels Q4 2020
• The Next IMMINENT Global Catastrophe After Coronavirus

Monday, December 28, 2020

Gold, Silver, and SPY Trend Forecasts / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020

By: Chris_Vermeulen

This second part of our special “What To Expect In 2021” article highlights our proprietary Adaptive Dynamic Learning (ADL) price modeling system and is specifically authored to help you understand where trends, price rotations, and risks may set up throughout 2021.  In the first part of this article, we covered the ES, NQ, and INDU symbols – highlighting how each one of these US major indexes showed a moderately deep price correction would setup in Q2 or Q3 of 2021. The INDU showed the deepest correction event with a specific “ADL Price Anomaly” setup. This second part of the series will cover Gold, Silver, and the SPY. 

Monday, December 28, 2020

Stock Market Congestion Top Forming? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2020

By: Andre_Gratian

Current Position of the Market

SPX Long-term trend:  There is some good evidence that we are still in the bull market which started in 2009, and which could continue into the first quarter of 2021 before coming to an end.

SPX Intermediate trend:  New intermediate uptrend underway since 2234.

Analysis of the short-term trend is done daily with the help of hourly charts. They are important adjuncts to the analysis of daily and weekly charts which determine longer market trends.

Monday, December 28, 2020

The Great Google Crash - Chinese Cyber Attacks Could Trigger More Global Outages During 2021 / Companies / Google

By: HGR

ALL Google services globally went dark on the morning of 14th of December 2020. That's Gmail, Youtube, Drive, Hangouts and Search ceased to function with users unable to log into accounts. All this whilst a pandemic had forced many millions of workers to work form home. The outage started at 11.50am GMT and continued for over an hour before users could once more log in and start to work.

This global outage brought home the extent to which we have all become reliant on Google services which through accident or design could reek havoc across the globe, especially giving the ongoing US / China brewing conflicts that undoubtedly will spill over into cyber space.

Sunday, December 27, 2020

Google and Amazon, Top 10 AI Tech Stocks Buying Levels Analysis / Companies / AI

By: Nadeem_Walayat

This is a continuation of my in-depth analysis into the buying levels for the Top 10 AI stocks to ride the electron mega-trend the whole of which was first made available to Patrons who support my work so immediate first access to ALL of my analysis and trend forecasts then do consider becoming a Patron by supporting my work for just $3 per month.

• US Presidential Election 2020 Forecast Review
• Seeing Stock Market New Highs Through the Prism of AI
• Stock Market Dow Quick Take
• AI Stocks Buying Levels and EC ratio Explained
• Top 10 AI Stocks individual analysis i.e. for Google, Amazon, Apple etc.
• AI Stocks Buying Levels Q4 2020
• The Next IMMINENT Global Catastrophe After Coronavirus

Sunday, December 27, 2020

Stock Market Trends Fortecast 2021 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2020

By: Chris_Vermeulen

Last year, I published a ‘What To Expect In 2020’ article that everyone seemed to enjoy.  We published this article to help investors and traders prepare for what we believed was going to be an incredibly volatile 2020.  Last year our conclusions was:

“Be prepared for a surprising spike in volatility in early 2020 with a moderately strong potential for an early 2020 downside price rotation which prompts a new price trend and possibly an early test of support (near 280 on the SPY chart).  2020 is going to be a fantastic year for skilled traders – get ready for some incredible price action. “

Our proprietary Adaptive Dynamic Learning (ADL) price modeling system has been calling big and unusual market price trends many months in advance over the past 3+ years.  Some of the biggest trends the ADL predicted very accurately was the 2017~2018 rally in Gold and the 2019 collapse in Crude Oil. 

Sunday, December 27, 2020

Bitcoin Rally Similarities – Is This The Peak? / Currencies / Bitcoin

By: Chris_Vermeulen

The recent rally in Bitcoin is strangely similar to the rally that took place in 2017.  Although the range of price throughout the rally is somewhat different, the structure of price throughout the rally phase is very similar.  Our researchers believe this similarity suggests a peak may be forming in Bitcoin and the big volume on Monday, December 21, 2020, may have represented a “blow-off peak” in price.

Bitcoin 2017 Peak Structure

The following Weekly Bitcoin chart highlights the three rally phases that took place before the peak level was reached in December 2017. Pay very close attention to the structure you are seeing on this chart and the highlights we’ve made to help you understand how the price structure is being mirrored in the current rally phase.

Sunday, December 27, 2020

Beginners Guide To Google AdWords - The Agents of Change / Companies / Google

By: Sumeet_Manhas

Seeking online approvals can be the most challenging course that any brand has to follow during its initial years. And that's why digital media marketing services extend several assisting tools for brands to gain online recognition and new business. One popular channel is Google Ads (formerly Google AdWords). However, there has been some debate around how Google Ads doesn’t always generate a strong ROI, and hence there is absolutely no point in getting involved as it will zap your budget. But you should know the problem generally doesn’t lie with Google Ads itself, but more with the campaign strategy employed.

Saturday, December 26, 2020

AI Tech Stocks Buying Levels and EC Indicator Explained / Companies / Investing 2020

By: Nadeem_Walayat

My last look at AI stocks buying levels early September had some of the must own AI stocks trading at ridiculously high valuations for instance Amazon was trading on an EC of 148 against a target maximum of 100! Which prompted me to HIT the SELL button on over 50% of my holdings despite the promise of huge gains in revenues as the pandemic sales and profits came in.

Saturday, December 26, 2020

Oculus Quest 2 Design FLAW! And the Quick Fix Solution / ConsumerWatch / Technology

By: HGR

Many VR enthusaits buying the Quest 2 soon experience a blatent flaw in it's design that spoils the experienc of using the headset. Fine out more about the design flaw and and en easy quick fix solution.