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SP 500 And NDX Futures Daily Charts – Transparency Games

SP 500 And NDX Futures Daily Charts – Transparency Games

“Hiding behind opacity, bankers rig the global financial markets for their personal gain. Today, seven large banks paid over $5 billion in fines for rigging the foreign exchange markets. These were the latest fines for bad behavior. However, just to show these fines will not change their bad behavior, yesterday a survey was release in […]
Global Demand Dearth Costs $1.2 Trillion In Lost Wages, $3.7 Trillion In GDP

Global Demand Dearth Costs $1.2 Trillion In Lost Wages, $3.7 Trillion In GDP

Recently we’ve seen quite a bit of evidence to support the notion that global demand has never recovered from the 2008 crisis and further, that central banks’ collective efforts to create demand via ‘the wealth effect’ and other similarly elusive concepts have failed. This is apparent virtually everywhere you look, from depressed global trade, to a […]
AAPL Butterfly Trade For June

AAPL Butterfly Trade For June

Apple Inc. (AAPL) has continued to remain in its trading range for over a few months, and this trade is playing for it to remain in this range (125-133). Arguably, I am late to the game betting for consolidation but I think the consolidation will continue at least for a few more weeks. I have […]
Can We Really Trust Nike’s Stock Price?

Can We Really Trust Nike’s Stock Price?

Introduction One of the most common mistakes that I see common stock investors make is failing to formulate the important distinction between a company and its publicly traded stock.There are many great companies out there with fabulous stories surrounding their wonderful businesses. As a result, it can be very easy to fall so much in […]
The End Is Near, Part 5: Paying Dividends With Borrowed Money

The End Is Near, Part 5: Paying Dividends With Borrowed Money

<< Read: The End Is Near, Part 1: The “War On Cash” << Read: The End Is Near, Part 2: Everyone Piles Into Junk Bonds << Read: The End Is Near, Part 3: Corporations Are The Ultimate Dumb Money << Read: The End Is Near, Part 4: Peak Trophy Asset Inflation A recent Goldman Sachs report explains where this […]
Despite A Short-Term Dip, Prospects For The KOSPI Remain Strong

Despite A Short-Term Dip, Prospects For The KOSPI Remain Strong

On April 27, I had argued on an article written for Seeking Alpha that the KOSPI stock market index had significant room left to run based on general stock undervaluation, coupled with prospects of lower interest rates and rising exports. The KOSPI had been trading at a level of 2150 on April 27 but has since lowered to under 2100 before […]
Yields & USD

Yields & USD

The 10 vs. 2 year yield spread is up slightly and the 30 vs. 2 is up significantly.  This continues a trend of late that brings the yield curve further into the discussion as it has for weeks now refused to go back down (this time). Here is the live 30 vs. 5 showing a […]
LA To Gradually Hike Minimum Wage To $15 By 2020; Already Weak Growth Prospects Just Got Worse

LA To Gradually Hike Minimum Wage To $15 By 2020; Already Weak Growth Prospects Just Got Worse

In yet another triumph of stupidity over common sense, a triumph that is sure to cost jobs, slow growth, and encourage more robotic replacement of workers, Los Angeles’ Minimum Wage on Track to go up to $15 by 2020   The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday backed a plan to raise the city’s minimum wage to […]
“One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other”

“One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other”

It is very rare to see Dow Industrials hitting new highs as Dow Transports prints new range lows… one of them is wrong here… Click on picture to enlarge   h/t Brad Wishak As Dana Lyons recently noted, …while not all divergences mark tops, many tops are marked by divergences. So it has been the case with […]
Most AutoTrader Systems Have Gone Short Prior To Long Weekend

Most AutoTrader Systems Have Gone Short Prior To Long Weekend

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