Most market money is not made picking price bottoms or tops, but taking a piece out of established trends. It’s an expensive lesson to learn if you think that a stock can’t go any lower. A sharp price drop is attractive…
Beyond the bullion itself, gold can be controlled by buying or selling a gold (GLD) exchange traded fund or a futures contract. Both investment vehicles will closely follow the cash spot price of gold but differ in a few ways. First, the GLD ETF acts…
Trading Places, a movie about a commodities trader and a homeless man switching places, was one of the first VHS tapes that I personally owned (says a lot about me I’m sure) and had a major impact on my formative…
I feel it… but don’t see it?? Inflation remains a mathematical mystery though felt by many of us in different ways. The classic government definition excludes food and energy which in reality make up most of our cost concerns. The…
Oil is everywhere…literally… oversupplied to push prices to 2009 lows back below $40 a barrel. The global glut and the inability of OPEC to cut production, intended or not to break the Shale industry, have turned sentiment on its head….
Interest Rates can’t stay near zero forever. Here are five things you should know about the interest rate hike: 1) It is coming December 16th – nothing is guaranteed, but all indications are this is a done deal. The short-term…
Major indexes offer a diversified way to play macro market moves. The DOW, S&P 500 and Nasdaq are common investments using DIAmond’s , SPYders and nasdaQQQ’s as vehicles. The advantage is lessened individual stock risk by having a broad basket….
The most discussed and telegraphed Federal Reserve action in history has rates on the move…maybe December 16th. Five years plus of Zero rates is coming to an end according to market indicators. The conundrum for objective market watchers is whether…