Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Same Fear, Different Year: This Vaxx Scam Has Been Going on for More Than a Century / Politics / Pandemic
By: Jeff_Berwick
2020: The Movie would go something like this:
Over the last few centuries, societal expectations led the most intelligent humans to choose not to have children while the least intelligent reproduce indiscriminately, creating increasingly dumber generations. (Societal = Socialist + Liberal?)
These multi-generations are exposed to the exact same scam every few years, and have seen Ebola, H1H1, Aids, Swine Flu, Zika Virus, MERS, Bird Flu and SARS come and go. None of which shut down the world. And almost none of which have a licensed, human-tested vaccine. Despite years and years of development.
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Tuesday, December 15, 2020
How Will Gold Perform This Winter? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
Brace yourselves, winter is coming! It may be a harsh period for the United States, but much better for gold.Some of you may have seen snow this year already, but the astronomical winter is still ahead of us. Unfortunately, it could be a really dark winter. Instead of joyful snowball battles and making snowmen, we will have to contend with the coronavirus . The vaccines will definitely help (the first doses of Pfizer’s vaccine were administered this week), but their widespread distribution will begin only next year. So, we still have to deal with the pandemic taking its toll here and now – as the chart below shows, the number of daily COVID-19 cases is still above 200,000 in the U.S.
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Monday, December 14, 2020
US Presidential Election 2020 Forecast Review / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2020
By: Nadeem_Walayat
This series of in-depth analysis (AI Stocks Portfolio Buying Levels Q4 2020 Analysis) covers the following topics:
- 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
However the whole of this extensive analysis has already first been 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. https://www.patreon.com/Nadeem_Walayat.
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Monday, December 14, 2020
Dow Stock Market Trend Forecast Into January 2020 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2020
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The stock markets recovery from the Chinese Coronavirus catastrophe has been spectacular. Remember the Dow traded down to a low of just 18,213 on 23rd of March 2020 and then over the next 8 months recovered to a new all time high north of Dow 30,000!
This is the final part of a series of in-depth analysis that concludes in a detailed trend forecast for the stock market into January 2021.
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Monday, December 14, 2020
A Fresh Perspective on Why Stock Market Continues to Defy News / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2020
By: EWI
Why a "disappointing" jobs report did not send stock prices lower
Many market observers assume that the news is the main factor in governing the stock market's trend.
Yet, Elliott Wave International has shown time and again that there's simply no evidence to support this widespread assumption.
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Monday, December 14, 2020
Precious Metals: The Foundation of A Sound Financial Portfolio / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: Nick_Barisheff
Precious metals are the bedrock of the financial world. They have permanent value and are the oldest form of money in the world. If you don’t own physical gold and silver, your investment portfolio lacks a sound foundation. Precious metals are often sought after as a store of permanent value, and as a method of diversifying portfolios.
While cash, bonds, stocks and real estate offer investors financial diversification, precious metals underpin all other assets, particularly during times of economic turbulence and market turmoil.
Imagine an upside-down pyramid containing successive layers of asset classes.
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Monday, December 14, 2020
Stock Market Minor Correction Underway / 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.
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Monday, December 14, 2020
Gold Price Green Light For Mining Stocks / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2020
By: Zeal_LLC
The gold miners’ stocks are finally perking up again, after spending months slogging through a grinding correction. Contrarian traders are taking notice, starting to redeploy capital in this high-potential sector. Gold miners’ earnings and thus stock prices are overwhelmingly driven by gold’s fortunes. And the yellow metal’s recent technicals are signaling a mature correction, green-lighting gold stocks’ next major upleg.
Bull markets are an alternating series of uplegs followed by corrections, for every few steps forward there is always one step back. These periodic selloffs are essential for bulls’ health and longevity, rebalancing sentiment and technicals before they get too overheated. Popular greed growing too extreme early in bulls will prematurely slay them. All available near-term buying is sucked in, exhausting capital inflows and upside.
The most-important times to trade during bull markets are correction bottomings and upleg toppings. The mission is to buy in relatively-low at the former, then sell relatively-high at the latter. That’s the lowest-risk and fastest way to multiply wealth in ongoing secular bulls. But executing on this strategy is challenging in real-time, because these tradable major lows and highs aren’t definitive until well after they’ve passed.
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Monday, December 14, 2020
Big Down Day For Gold And Silver; More To Come? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: Kelsey_Williams
After a recent spike to the upside over the past seven days, both gold and silver have turned negative again and could be headed back to their recent low points reached early in the day on Monday, November 30th.
The movement in both gold and silver is evident of a decided shift in trend direction to the downside. What happens after prices return to their recent lows could prove interesting; or downright discouraging if you are expecting a resumption of the trend to higher prices.
Silver at its recent reaction high point yesterday reached $24.80. At that point it was still down $5.00 per ounce from it August intraday high of $29.80. When silver touched $21.80 last week it represented a loss of more than twenty-five percent from its August peak.
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Monday, December 14, 2020
Why Investors Need to Be Invested in Amazon AMZN Stock / Companies / Amazon
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Amazon had soared into the stratosphere, literally doubling in price from its March low, breaking above $3400 early July putting Amazon on an eye watering EC level of 148, prompting me to sell over 50% of my holdings which I flagged ahead of time in the comments, following which Amazon did correct down to $2900 though not to anywhere near it's buying level of $2525. Following which Amazon did manage to break to a new high of $3552, but again it was not able to hold the levels due very high valuations which currently has Amazon trading down to $3099.
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Monday, December 14, 2020
Oculus Quest 2 Unboxing and First Impressions - Exactly What's in the box! / Personal_Finance / Virtual Reality
By: HGR
In this video I show you what comes with the Oculus Quest 2, exactly what's in the box so if buying you don't get extras you don't need. And also give our first impressions when compared to other VR headsets.
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Monday, December 14, 2020
Oculus Quest 2 Dumped on Doorstep! Amazon Deliveries Handed to Sleeping Resident / ConsumerWatch / Amazon
By: N_Walayat
It's Sunday morning when usually everyone's having a lie in, though I wake up early for a change 9am and one of the first things i do is to check my email. Your Amazon Item has been delivered at 7.52am, handed to resident! WHAT? All the emails to date had said it was going to be delivered Monday, and what resident was it handed to since all are sleeping! So out a rush to see what's happened!
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Sunday, December 13, 2020
Copper & Bonds Telegraphed the 2020 COVID Stock Market Collapse / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2020
By: Chris_Vermeulen
A very interesting setup in both Copper and Bonds seemed to have telegraphed the collapse in the US stock market in early 2020. T-Bonds, which had been consolidating into a downward price channel prior to the COVID outbreak, suddenly broke through the downward price channel and started to accelerate higher. Copper, which is a fairly common commodity for building, infrastructure, and other uses, had been moving higher above a clear upward price channel, then suddenly broke lower in early 2020. Both Bond and Copper seemed to break these price channels nearly 20+ days before the US stock markets initiated their price decline on February 24, 2020.
My research team and I believe this setup is not inconsequential for technical traders. The breakdown in Copper represents a core “demand” failure, while the breakout in Bonds suggests risks are elevating. This is something we should continue to watch for in the future as Copper and Bond prices typically move before the US stock market begins to react.
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Sunday, December 13, 2020
Looking for Precious Metals Key Triggers / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: P_Radomski_CFA
The question on everyone’s mind is: when is it a good time to buy some gold or silver after they bottom? The answer to that question is simple: when key triggers are met. Count-trend rallies in gold or silver don’t mean that they have enough energy and momentum to keep climbing. Miners also don’t have enough strength to lead the way in a fresh climb upwards for the PMs, so everything we see now only speaks of corrective action.
Gold moved higher yesterday (Dec 8), while silver and mining stocks went in the opposite direction. It seems that the latter moved in tune with the trend, while the move in the former was rather accidental.
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Sunday, December 13, 2020
Yes, "Active Stock Investment Managers" DO Behave Like the "Crowd" / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2020
By: EWI
...and that's not a good thing
When people hear the phrase "investing crowd," they tend to think of Main Street investors. Usually dipping their toe in the water after the trend has been underway for quite some time, they are typically seen as the "more cautious" types than Wall Street pros.
Of course, there is a flip side to that "cautiousness": The "investing crowd" is known for panic-selling near market bottoms and going "all in" near major market tops.
What's more, Main Street investors are not alone in their "crowd" behavior. It actually permeates most of the investment world, including the professionals.
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Sunday, December 13, 2020
How can a company avoid a winding-up petition? / Companies / SME
By: Sumeet_Manhas
Winding-up petitions allow the creditors who did not get their payment before the court so that the company is forced for a closure. Any creditors who owe the minimum amount i.e decided according to the law can opt for a winding-up petition to the courts.
After the petition is received by the company, a hearing will be held by the court. Before the hearing, the company will get seven days to get rid of the winding-up petition. If the company cannot prove the petition to be wrong or if they fail to repay the debts the company will be wound-up with an official notice. The winding-up order will be issued by the court and the official receiver will be appointed to liquidate the company.
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Sunday, December 13, 2020
New Jersey Hard Money Loans: Important Things You Need to Know / Personal_Finance / Debt & Loans
By: Sumeet_Manhas
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Friday, December 11, 2020
Mission Accomplished: The Gold Bull Is Back / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: The_Gold_Report
Sector expert Michael Ballanger maintains the "golden bull is back," and in this missive he outlines the reasons why. As this is being penned, I am seated in my den just after 7 a.m. looking out into the pitch darkness of an early December morn and the only light is a reflection off the cool waters of the lovely swamp Lake Scugog emanating from the bustling metropolis known as Port Perry. I can hear the distant rumbling of cars and trucks all along the causeway on their way to destinations that have surely changed from what and where they were one year ago.
With warranted affection, it gives me great hope in watching my fellow small-town citizens carrying on with pre-Christmas traditions, decorating the eaves with festive lights and animated front-lawn symbols that go back centuries. The will to survive and spit in the eye of the current public health crisis (which is rapidly morphing into a civil obedience crisis) gives me time to reflect upon the events of the past year. In case you haven't noticed, in the blink of an eye, 2020 will soon be gone, and to this I say, "Good riddance!"
Furthering that sentiment, I normally take the first week of December to conduct a self-audit of the year in review, largely because by this time there is not a great deal one can do to enhance one's portfolio performance. You have either had a good year or you have had a bad year, and with markets winding down into mid-month, volumes and volatility are going to be significantly reduced and trading opportunities disappearing up the proverbial chimney.
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Friday, December 11, 2020
Silver is Back! / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: The_Gold_Report
Peter Krauth explains why he believes silver is heading into a massive bull market. It's getting harder with every passing day to find cheap assets.
Stocks, bonds, real estate, they're all pretty pricey. And yet, no one seems to care.
Instead, the masses, and asset managers, appear determined to keep pushing them higher.
In recent days, the S&P 500, the Dow 30 and the Nasdaq all set new records. And yet, it's not difficult to imagine that, at least over the next 6–12 months, these indices could easily all head higher.
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Friday, December 11, 2020
We Can’t Wait Any Longer for More Coronavirus Relief / Economics / Coronavirus Depression
By: John_Mauldin
The Federal Reserve acted quickly last March, cutting rates and launching a massive asset purchase program. Congress helped with a giant fiscal aid package.
Together, these jolted the economy back to life. The jolt wasn’t permanent, however.
The economic patient is now wavering again. This time, despite pleas from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell that monetary policy has reached its limits, the fiscal part of the cure is not forthcoming.
Ah, but “limits” don’t really apply to central bankers. Not the central bank of the world’s largest economy and issuer of the global reserve currency.
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