Friday, March 26, 2021
Gold Miners: Why Apparent Strength is Just a Facade / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2021
By: P_Radomski_CFA
Despite everyone saying the bottom is in, and that gold and miners are set for takeoff, the signs still point south. The real question: how low can they go?
Let’s take a look at some price targets for where the GDX and GDXJ mining ETFs might land up.
With the miners attempting to reclaim Pride Rock, it won’t be long until the GDX ETF is singing Hakuna Matata.
Rising U.S. Treasury yields? No problem.
A reinvigorated USD Index? Who cares.
But while strength is often viewed through the eyes of the beholder, the GDX ETF is far from being The Lion King. Sure, its bravery in the face of familiar foes is reason for optimism. However, we’ve seen this movie before. While the recent rally may resemble Mufasa, beneath the surface, the GDX ETF’s tepid price action looks a lot like Simba.
Friday, March 26, 2021
How to Get Started Crypto Mining with Nicehash, Easy Mine Ethereum Desktop PC Step by Step Guide / Currencies / Crypto Mining
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Crypto mania is reaching new heights with the likes of Bitcoin trading and holding above $60,000 which means virtually anyone with a decent enough GPU in their PC can make money from their very own desktop computers. Here is my comprehensive guide of how anyone can get started crypto mining Ethereum in the background with their desktop PC. Where the likes of Nice Hake crypto mining is made EASY, and where you get paid in BITCOIN, and not useless obscure coins. do check out Nicehash to start crypto mining with your desktop PC.
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Friday, March 26, 2021
Scan Computers 1st Time Switch On of Custom 3SX System Build 2021 - Scan.co.uk Review (5) / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Ordering a custom built PC from Scan Computers UK, this is video no 5 in this series where we connect up the cables and switch it on for the first time! Will it boot? Will windows start? Is windows activated? What to check on first use, find out in our latest video in this series as we put scan computers 5950x, RTX 3-80, 64gb £3300 monster throuigh it's paces.
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Friday, March 26, 2021
Ultimate Custom Gaming PC Unboxing for Playing Cyber Punk 2077 / Personal_Finance / Gaming
By: Anika_Walayat
Unboxing Anika and Eliza's new ultimate desktop PC gaming system setup to play games from Call of Duty and Cyber punk 2077. Full specs below.
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Friday, March 26, 2021
5 Tips On Hiring A Good Fund Manager / Companies / Investment Funds
By: Mark_Adan
Why hire a fund manager? Should you hire someone to manage your money? Those are two simple questions but critical when dealing with money. You want a working and successful investment plan, a major reason for hiring a fund manager. Many are times; we are torn between winning or losing decisions while investing; a fund manager will assist in financial decisions.A fund manager helps you make progress in your investments; they eliminate stagnation in your investments. At some point, you will need someone to help make sober decisions and execute them at the right time. A busy investor schedule may hinder deciding on the right investment channels; therefore, it is necessary for a professional fund manager.
A fund manager commentary like that of fund manager February commentary - Lowland investment Company summaries the market performance and activities.
Managing our investment may look all that easy, but you need to hire a fund manager at the end of the day. Below are simple tips for hiring a fund manager:
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Thursday, March 25, 2021
3 Ways To Play The Trillion-Dollar Crypto Boom / Companies / BlockChain
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Thursday, March 25, 2021
Tide Is Turning in Stocks and Gold / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2021
By: Monica_Kingsley
Friday‘s session ended in a tie, but it‘s the bears who missed an opportunity to win. Markets however dialed back their doubting of the Fed, which has been apparent in the long-term Treasuries the most. One daily move doesn‘t make a trend change likely though, especially since the Mar pace of TLT decline is on par with Feb‘s and higher than in Jan. While Treasuries paused in early Mar, they‘re now once again as extended vs. their 50-day moving average as before.
And that poses a challenge for interest rate sensitive stocks and to some degree also for tech - while I expect value to continue to lead over growth, technology would recover some of the lost ground on rates stabilization. And it‘s true that the $UST10Y move has been a very sharp one, more than tripling from the Aug 2020 lows.
Inflation expectations are rising, and so is inflation – PPI under the hood thus far only. Financial assets are rising, perfectly reflected in (this month consolidating) commodity prices. Cost-driven inflation is in our immediate future, not one joined at the hip with job market pressures – that‘s waiting for 2022-3. The story of coming weeks and months is the stimulus avalanche hitting while the Fed still merrily ignores the bond market pressures.
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Market Timing For The Next Two Weeks / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2021
By: Avi_Gilburt
Every time I branch out to read articles being presented throughout the internet each week, it simply makes me shake or scratch my head. Moreover, I stand in amazement at anyone who attempts to base their investment portfolio upon such information.
As I have said many times, after many years of market study, I have found no better analysis methodology that provides market context better than Elliott Wave analysis. It provides forewarning as to melt-up set-ups in the market, as well as periods of market volatility.
Last week, I warned our members that we were entering a period of time which will present a choppy and difficult market to navigate. And, the market certainly delivered within our expectations. And, did interest rates or exogenous events tell me this was going to happen?
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Thursday, March 25, 2021
It’s the Bond Market, Stupid / Interest-Rates / US Bonds
By: Gary_Tanashian
As our Continuum chart predicted over a year ago, Jerome Powell was called to his higher inflationary powers when the macro markets liquidated with great violence and terror. This link shows the Continuum (30yr yield and its monthly EMA 100 limiter) as it was then, begging for inflationary action…
Oh Jerome? Bond market calling…
Below is the Continuum today. Since the linked post from February, 2020, a lot has happened and it has been according to the plans we laid out last spring. The plan was inflationary because the Fed was going into steroidal inflation mode. The ‘Fed comfort box’ on the chart has thinned out from the original post because the red dotted limiter (monthly EMA 100) has declined appreciably since then.
These many months the NFTRH target has been 2.5% to 2.7% on the 30yr Treasury yield. This week that zone’s lower bound got dinged. It is coming time for a cool down at least, if the macro reflation is going to get a second wind. What could provide that second wind?
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021
The Elliott Wave Principle - Prechter's Wall St. Classic: Get Your Free Access Now / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Commodities Comeback / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: The_Gold_Report
Peter Krauth, editor of Gold Resource Investor, examines the commodity supercycle and the role recency bias plays in investment decisions. Recency bias is a funny thing. It's human nature to expect the near future to look like the recent past.
But we all know that's not how things always play out.
And that can be costly, even dangerous, for investors.
Take long term bonds, for example. Ten-year Treasury yields have more than tripled, from 0.54% to 1.66% since last July. Does that mean the 40-year bond bull market is dead?
Tough to say, or course. We'll only know that for sure with hindsight. You know… recency bias.
If nothing else, the bond market is telling us price inflation is becoming a thing again, notwithstanding what the Fed might be telegraphing.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021
The Best Backdoor Bitcoin Play of 2021 / Currencies / Bitcoin
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021
US Deep State - Who is Shaking the Jar? / Politics / Social Issues
By: James_Quinn
“If you catch 100 red fire ants as well as 100 large black ants, and put them in a jar, at first, nothing will happen. However, if you violently shake the jar and dump them back on the ground the ants will fight until they eventually kill each other. The thing is, the red ants think the black ants are the enemy and vice versa, when in reality, the real enemy is the person who shook the jar. This is exactly what’s happening in society today. Liberal vs. Conservative. Black vs. White. Pro Mask vs. Anti-Mask. Vax vs. Anti-vax. Rich vs. poor. Man vs. woman. Cop vs. citizen. The real question we need to be asking ourselves is who’s shaking the jar… and why?” – Shera Starr
A few weeks ago, I saw the above quote in Jeff Thomas’ article Learning from Ants, and it has been reverberating in my mind ever since. It is a perfect analogy for what has been happening in this country for years, with the jar lately being shaken at a rate faster than a Biden vote count increase at 3:00 am in a swing state. Everyone in this country, and the world, is at each other’s throats. Who is shaking the jar? Why are they shaking the jar? Why do they want us fighting each other?
If they keep us focused on fighting each other, they believe we will not notice their reprehensible criminality, as they manipulate the masses through psychological engineering and the employment of propaganda techniques to push their desired narrative. If you ask someone – who is shaking the jar? – they will likely answer based on the standard left vs right, liberal vs conservative, white vs black paradigm which has been created by those benefiting from conflict. It is always a safe bet to follow the money when trying to identify the culprits.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Human Brain vs High End Desktop PC in 2021 / Politics / AI
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Where do we stand on the path towards your desktop computer becoming more intelligent than you! Currently the best retail desktop GPU is the Nvidia RTX 3090 that carries an MSRP of $1500, though the crypto boom means right now it is very difficult to get hold of and even then prices start at $2000 typically rising to $2200. Still it is easier to obtain then the lower skew RTX 3080 that us supposed to sell for $699 but instead available supply is typically being sold on on ebay for $1200-$1400!
Nevertheless how does the processing power of an RTX 3090 GPU compare to that of a human brain. The RTX 3090 has 10,496 parallel processors and operates at 1.7ghz. That converts into 36 teraflops of raw processing power.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Nervous Fed to Give Precious Metals Markets a Boost / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2021
By: MoneyMetals
The Fed’s Open Markets Committee met last week and left policy unchanged – at least for the moment.
No one expected central banking officials to make rate adjustments last week with equity prices rubbing up against all-time highs and the economic recovery narrative still dominant.
Central bankers are likely getting nervous, however. Treasury yields are surging, and it is only a matter of time before stimulus addicted markets throw another tantrum.
In fact, the S&P 500 index fell after Wednesday’s announcement and each of the following two days.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Should you invest in the Welding Industry? / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Sumeet_Manhas
The welding industry is looking at a bright future. Specialists expect the market to reach $27.22 billion (USD) by 2027. What is currently driving the market is the increasing investments in the tools that are needed, inside the industry. Also, the pandemic has affected the market in a way that it should force mergers to happen, which is seen as a positive driving force. Here is what you need to know, if you are looking to invest in the welding industry.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Stock Market Pause in an Uptrend / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2021
By: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the Market
SPX Long-term trend: There is some evidence that we are still in the bull market which started in 2009 and which could continue into the first half of 2021 before major cycles take over and it comes to an end.
SPX Intermediate trend: SPX may have completed a phase of its intermediate uptrend and is consolidating.
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.
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
US Housing Market House Prices Trend Forecast 2021, 2022 / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Formulating a US House Prices Forecast
Pandemics end, momentum, economic, trend and real terms prices analysis ALL point towards a US house prices boom of sorts for 2021. Targeting a bull run into the end of 2021 of about +10% on the most recent Case Shiller 10 city Index (SPCS10RNSA ) rising from 248.5 (Oct 2020 data) to about 273 for Dec 2021 data.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Is This The Best Way To Play The Bitcoin Boom? / Companies / Bitcoin
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Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Scan Computers UK Quality of Custom 3SX System Build 2021 - 5950x, RTX 30380 - Scan.co.uk Review (4) / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Ordering a custom built PC from Scan Computers UK, this is video no 4 in this series which is on quality of system build for this 5950x, RTX 3-80, 64gb £3300 monster, the components used, installation layout, the cabling, have they made any obvious mistakes, let's find as we check the the system before powering up. and do check out my previous videos in this series on ordering a custom built systems from Scan Computers UK.
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