Friday, August 28, 2015
The 10 Best Stocks for Options Trading Plays in This Market / Companies / Options & Warrants
By: ...
MoneyMorning.com Tom Gentile writes: The biggest market drop in recorded history on Monday… a wild end-of-day plummet on Tuesday… a huge up day on Wednesday… and more bullish action today?
Talk about opportunity!
Right now, the only real barrier to trading profits is a stock that doesn't move.
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Friday, August 28, 2015
Economics of a Stock Market Crash / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Crash
By: Alasdair_Macleod
This month has seen something that happens not very often: it appears to be the early stages of a global stock market crash. For the moment investors are in shock, seeking reassurance and keenly intent on preserving their diminishing assets, instead of reflecting on the broader economic reasons behind it. To mainstream financial commentators, blame for a crash is always placed on remote factors, such as China’s financial crisis, and has little to do with events closer to home. Analysis of this sort is selective and badly misplaced. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the economic background to today’s markets as well as the likely consequences.
Friday, August 28, 2015
Currency Wars Detonate; Gold Refuses to Budge / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Sol_Palha
The person who lives by hope will die by despair.
Italian Proverb
Over the years we have frequently stated that every that every major bull market will experience at least one back breaking correction. Usually the correction culminates with a 50% pullback from the highs. In the case of Gold, this would equate to a pullback to $960. The precious metal’s sector had a splendid lope that began in 2003 and ended with spectacular dash in 2011. To think that the Gold bull would continue unabated would be to put it mildly wishful thinking. Sadly, many Gold bugs opted for this line of thought, rather than dealing with reality; the reality being that it was time for the entire sector to let out some steam.
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Friday, August 28, 2015
Gold: Bullish in Real Terms, Bearish in Nominal Terms / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
Last week when we covered rebound targets in the precious metals sector we also discussed the importance of Gold’s performance in real terms. It can be a leading indicator for the sector at key turning points. Since then precious metals sold off in aggressive fashion alongside global equity markets. However, Gold against equities gained materially. This is something to keep an eye on as it hints that a trend change is boiling under the surface.
Friday, August 28, 2015
UK Immigration Crisis Hits New Record, Trending Towards Becoming a Catastrophe / Politics / Immigration
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Britain's Immigration crisis is fast trending towards becoming a catastrophe as the latest immigration statistics once more bring home the stark reality that the UK has no control over its borders as 5 years of Conservative government rhetoric of controlling immigration have yet again been revealed to be a case of "the emperor has no clothes", where rather than annual net immigration of in the tens of thousands as David Cameron promised at the start of his Premiership in 2010, instead net immigration has once more soared above the previous record high of 318,000 announced in May, to now 330,000.
The Conservative / Coalition governments failures to control immigration for the past 5 years have just marked a continuation of the Labour immigration catastrophe that set in motion a 15 year long immigration mega-trend for importation of over 8 million people (total immigration) where approx 90% of the adults were expected to vote Labour (90% on benefits such as tax credits).
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Thursday, August 27, 2015
The Ultimate Cash-Management Guide / Personal_Finance / Savings Accounts
By: DailyWealth

Thursday, August 27, 2015
Why a Fed Rate Hike Could Be a Blessing for Gold Prices / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: The_Gold_Report
Like a true contrarian, Gold Newsletter publisher Brien Lundin looks beyond the headlines to understand what is really moving precious metals prices. He has concluded that the mainstream media may have it all wrong. Suspected anchors on the gold price such as an interest rate increase and devaluation of the yuan could actually be a rallying cry for commodities, he says in this interview with The Gold Report. And, he points to a baker's dozen of companies poised to take off when the arrows turn.
Thursday, August 27, 2015
Why Devaluing the Yuan Won't Help China's Economy / Economics / China Economy
By: Frank_Shostak
Earlier this month, the Chinese government decided to depreciate its currency on three consecutive occasions. On August 13, the price of the US dollar was trading at 6.413 — an increase of 3.3 percent against July. The key factor behind the central bank’s lowering of the yuan is a sharp decline in the growth momentum of exports with the yearly rate of growth falling to minus 8.3 percent in July from 2.8 percent in June.
Thursday, August 27, 2015
The Difference Between What Traders and Investors Should Do Now / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: Investment_U
Alexander Green writes:Over the last couple of weeks, the market has rallied, plunged and rallied again.
Should you buy into this craziness right now? That depends on whether you consider yourself a trader or an investor.
There are a lot of opportunities out there right now for medium- to long-term investors. But it looks dicier for short-term traders.
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Thursday, August 27, 2015
It’s Hard to Be Broke and Happy at the Same Time / Personal_Finance / Pensions & Retirement
By: Investment_U
Alexander Green writes: Editorial Note: There's no ignoring what's happening in the markets today. Global fears have sent U.S. stocks into a free fall. Of course, we're not going to pretend it's the best of times. But, as Alex has advised in the past, now is not the time to try and time the markets. In his words, "Nobody rings a bell at the top of the market. So the amateur lurches about and suddenly gets out... then finds that stocks keep going up without him." As we write, the Dow is already up 338 points from this morning's low. So keep that in mind as your fellow investors run screaming into the streets.
A new report from Bankrate.com reveals that more Americans than ever are saving nothing for retirement.
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Thursday, August 27, 2015
Stock Market Trend & Trade Signal Of the Decade / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: Chris_Vermeulen
U.S. stocks closed lower Tuesday after a failed attempt to rally from the Dow’s worst 3-day point decline. It’s something I have not seen since the 2008 GLOBAL financial crisis.
The market had its first rally of the downtrend yesterday but it would be a BIG mistake to get bullish for new long-term investments at this point. The major trend is down. The odds favor that this is to be only the first phase of the decline. Today’s rally could take us to 1965 – 2040 level on the SP500. I will be taking short positions in the US markets soon.
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Thursday, August 27, 2015
Keep Your Eye On the Gold and Silver Bear / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Rambus_Chartology
Tonight we’re going to look at the precious metals complex and get focused again as this is the area we need to concentrate our efforts right now IMHO. All the volatility in the stock markets has many taking their eyes off the ball of what may turn out to be the trade of a lifetime for some of you. I’m just as guilty as the next person trying to play the stock markets looking for that big trade that is so elusive right now. The stock markets are like a veg o matic chopping up both the bulls and the bears alike.
I have made a couple of small trades trying to catch one of the swings but the volatility is very hard to deal with. Back in 2000 after the markets topped I began to play the short side as bear markets can be very profitably if you can catch them just right. What I learned back then was you had to be dead on the money with your entry points because the volatility would knock you out before the move you were looking for actually took place. It looks easy in hindsight when you view the long term charts of bear markets but trading them in real time is a whole different ballgame.
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Thursday, August 27, 2015
Stock Market Retracement Rally May be Over / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX appears to have completed its retracement just shy of the 50% retracement value at 1985.25. If so, it is due for the next decline. This may be point 7 of the Orthodox Broadening Top with point 8 being the crash bottom.
Thursday, August 27, 2015
Why Stocks Could Fall 50% if the Fed Makes the Wrong Move / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: Casey_Research
By Justin Spittler
One of the most brilliant investors in the world just made a stunning call…
Ray Dalio is the founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund. Dalio manages nearly $170 billion in assets. He has one of the best investing track records in the business. When he speaks, we listen.
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Thursday, August 27, 2015
Refugees Expose Europe’s Lack Of Decency / Politics / Immigration
By: Raul_I_Meijer
This is a story I’ve been wanting to write for a while now, at least two full weeks, but haven’t gotten around to because I have my dying mother to attend to. Something I can to an extent approach from a rational point of view, because she has expressed her explicit will to die. But it will of course never be easy, if only because I’ve been close to her all my life even in the 20-odd years I lived thousands of miles away. It’s a thing of the heart.
And so must be, at some moment or another, my dealing with what she goes through, and what I will go through when she finally gets her wish. A wish I would have thought would be reasonably easy to fulfill in a country as supposedly advanced as Holland, but that’s not true. People have to suffer more, long after they’ve signaled they’ve had enough, just to satisfy someone or another’s idea of ethics who has little to no involvement in the situation. Unless they’ve been through endless series of conversations with total strangers who will then decide when it’s time.
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Thursday, August 27, 2015
Why Gold Was the Best Buy in 2008-9 Crash and Will Be Again This Time Too / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: GoldCore
DAILY PRICES
Today’s Gold Prices: USD 1128.50, GBP 728.91 and EUR 999.38 per ounce
Yesterday’s Gold Prices: USD 1134.40, GBP 724.63 and EUR 990.05 per ounce.
Thursday, August 27, 2015
How to Profit from China's Currency War / Currencies / Currency War
By: ...
MoneyMorning.com Peter Krauth writes: The People’s Bank of China uses its massive reserves to buy or sell the yuan to maintain a desired exchange rate. It’s been pegged to the U.S. dollar in some way for decades.
So, a strong dollar has often meant a strong yuan.
That hurts Chinese exports, and it’s been a sticking point in China’s ongoing negotiations to secure the yuan’s “reserve currency status” at the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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Thursday, August 27, 2015
How China's Currency Policies Will Change the World / Currencies / China Currency Yuan
By: STRATFOR
The recent fluctuations in China's currency typify the best and worst of a globalized world, where developments in one place can instantly change the political and financial calculations of governments in others. For most of human history, the communities, cultures and economies of the world existed independently of one another, separated as they were by vast distances and difficult terrain. It would, for instance, take months or even years for news of China to reach Europe across the great Silk Road trading route during the height of its use some 1,000 years ago. Even then, the communities along that route could hardly be considered entirely coherent.
Thursday, August 27, 2015
Crude Oil Price One-day Rebound or Something More? / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Nadia_Simmons
Trading position (short-term; our opinion): Short positions with a stop-loss order at $45.32 and profit-take order at $35.72 are justified from the risk/reward perspective.
On Tuesday, crude oil gained 4.15% after China's central bank cut interest rates. Thanks to this news, light crude reversed and invalidated Monday’s breakdown under the support line. Despite this move, the commodity still remains under the barrier of $40. Will it stop further improvement in the coming days?
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Thursday, August 27, 2015
Chinese Medicine not Impressing Dr Copper / Commodities / Copper
By: Dan_Norcini
Dr. Copper apparently does not approve of the prescription ordered by the Chinese authorities to stem the slowdown in that nation, namely another 25 basis point interest rate reduction and a lowering of bank reserve requirements.
The red metal cannot sustain any upside action for long before sellers emerge to whack it again.
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