Friday, February 05, 2021

Did GameStop Mark the Stock Market Top? / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2021

By: Stephen_McBride

 “You do stocks, huh? I’m thinking about ploughing a few grand into GameStop. That thing’s going to the moon, bro!”

The guy on the treadmill next to me was clearly excited. Then he told me all about another opportunity as he wiped sweat off his face.

“The next Tesla,” he said, grinning from ear to ear. And he wasn’t the only one. I had at least four conversations about stocks at my local gym last week. (It’s not exactly a hotbed of investors. In fact, I’ve never talked about stocks there until recently).

Another guy told me he bought $5,000 worth of Royal Caribbean Cruises. Why? It “went down a lot.” And he thinks it’s a “lock” to bounce back.

Friday, February 05, 2021

Silver Now In Line To Hammer The US Dollar? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2021

By: Hubert_Moolman

It is still all about US dollar Meltdown. All the the assets that act as a safehaven from US dollar meltdown are taking their turn to hammer the US Dollar.

Silver has been lagging assets like gold and Bitcoin from a short and long-term perspective. Silver is still way below its 1980 all-time high, as well as its 2011 high.

When it is the time for silver to run, then you should know that trouble is about to get real (especially when $50 is surpassed). It was the start of this massive fraud when silver was demonetized , and it is soon to be the end of it, when silver will re-emerge as one of the most significant monetary assets.

Friday, February 05, 2021

Why GTX 970 is Nvidia's Best Ever GPU - Powering 4 Monitors at 1440p and 4k in 2021 / Personal_Finance / Computing

By: HGR

Everyone wants an RTX 3000 series card, but their ain' t no stock. So if you really need a graphics card what about GTX 970 which can be had on ebay for about £120. Why a GTX 970? We'll for one thing it can power up to 4 displays without cutting a sweat! I.e. the temps remain low. Unlike most RTX 3080's that are selling for well over £800, many on ebay over £1000 that can only power 3 displays!

The GTX 970 is a great card for many more reasons for instance unlike the power hungry RTX series, with a TDP of 140 it does not need to ramp up the fans so tends to stay quiet most of the time. Check out my latest video for why the GTX 970 is a great card for those who need one right now, as I power up 4 displays 4k, 1440p and HD to demonstrate just how good this GPU truly is.

Friday, February 05, 2021

Silver Price May Rally Above $39 On Range Breakout / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2021

By: Chris_Vermeulen

Nearly 6+ months ago, our research team highlighted a unique price range that appears to be repeating itself in Silver.  This price range consists of a $5.40 bullish or bearish price phase.  Using our 100% measured move techniques, we’ve seen silver move higher and lower by this range over the past 10+ months and, quite interestingly, the current sideways price range in Silver is almost exactly a $5.40 range. After a bit of research related to the explosive upside price move in June 2020, where Silver rallied from $17.75 to levels over $28.75 – an $11 Candle Body Range (nearly 2x the $5.40 range), our researcher team believes the next breakout move in Silver may be another 2x or 3x rally – ranging from an $11+ rally to a $16.50+ rally.  This suggests a potential upside price target in Silver near $39 to $45 if our research is correct.

Potential Silver Blastoff Once Price Clears $30

This Daily Silver Futures chart highlights the continued $5.40 range that has “bound” silver over the past 4+ months.  The peak in price, near $30 represents the high price level that would have to be breached if any breakout attempt is confirmed.  Initially, we expect to see the $28 (upper channel) level breached, then we need to see the $30 breached as the breakout move continues/confirms.

Friday, February 05, 2021

How Can a Singer See Success in Today’s World? / Personal_Finance / Internet

By: Submission

If you are an aspiring singer, then I have the perfect tips for you to check out. If you can put these to use in your daily life, you will most likely see success quicker than you think. Advancing your singing career is really not that complicated if you focus on the right things and put the work in every day.

Without further ado, let’s get right into the three tips that I have for you to see success in today’s world with singing. They should be very helpful.

Friday, February 05, 2021

US Dollar Has Crossed the “Event Horizon” / Currencies / US Dollar

By: Raymond_Matison

The “event horizon” is a term used in astronomy which describes an imaginary point some distance from a black hole in the center of a galaxy where the gravitational force becomes so strong that any heavenly body which crosses that point (visualized as a circle around the black hole) cannot escape the hole’s gravitational pull, and matter is inexorably pulled into the black hole destroying it completely.  This is an apt analogue to the continuous and increasing printing of fiat currency where once an astronomic amount of debt is issued creating the currency, it then starts to lose purchasing value such that it is no longer possible for it not to lose all or most of its value, and it collapses on itself.  Similar to stellar mass being destroyed in the case of black holes, the currency and its purchasing value is completely or mostly destroyed.

This article proposes that unrelenting growth of national debt, which is the basis for currency creation has reached a global inflection level such that the value of fiat currencies across the globe, with several notable country exceptions, are drawn into a whirlpool of decline that will ultimately result in its near complete loss of value. 

Friday, February 05, 2021

Stocks Need to Consolidate Now, And Gold Will Anyway / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2021

By: Submissions

After Monday‘s great rise, stocks continued without much of a pause yesterday too. Did they get ahead of themselves, or not really? And what about those correction calls, is the alarm over now? As said yesterday, the bulk of the correction in stocks, is over.

Is it clear skies ahead now? In my very first 2021 analysis 10 days ago, I‘ve called for a not so rosy February ahead. Last Friday, options expired with stocks taking a plunge, so the current month will get an optical boost. I am looking for higher prices, and no correction around the corner.

Gold is in a different situation, still basing and unable to keep intraday gains. Having predictably given up the silver short squeeze boost, the search for the local bottom in largely sideways price action continues. That‘s likely to be the case given that the dollar has stabilized and is peeking higher (before eventually moving to new lows, is still my call).

Thursday, February 04, 2021

Bitcoin and Precious Metals may be disconnecting trends / Currencies / Bitcoin

By: Chris_Vermeulen

In the recent past, quite a bit of attention was focused on Bitcoin throughout the October 2020 to January 2021 rally phase.  It was an incredible rally of over 400% and many analysts had highlighted the alignment of Bitcoin to Precious Metals prior to the breakout rally in Bitcoin.  The renewed interest in Cryptos in October broke this alignment as Cryptos rallied while Precious Metals stayed mostly flat to negative.

My research team and I have written on How To Spot The End Of An Excess Phase (Part I and Part II)near the end of November 2020, which spotlighted Bitcoin.  We have further identified a broad market cycle phase which has shifted from Appreciation to Depreciation, taking place in late 2018/early 2019, and believed the rally in Bitcoin was driven by this excess phase enthusiasm.

Thursday, February 04, 2021

WILD Silver Market Price Swings, What to Expect Next... / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2021

By: MoneyMetals

As extreme market conditions drive tremendous volatility in silver spot prices, buyers are exerting unprecedented pressures on retail physical bullion products.

Record-setting buying volumes pushed the silver price toward a multi-year breakout on Monday. Silver hit an eight-year high of over $30/oz during the day, closing at $29.41.

On Tuesday, however, the silver market got slammed – along with stocks that had been heavily bid up based on internet discussion board campaigns. As GameStop (GME) shares suffered a 60% meltdown, silver plunged by close to 10% to just under $27/oz.

Thursday, February 04, 2021

KITKAT Win £10,000 BREAK from BILLs and £50 per Day! Tesco Doubles to £100! / Personal_Finance / Freebies and Comps

By: HGR

Here's heads up on a new promo from Kitkat, where you can win £10,000! And enter into daily online draws to win £50, that Tesco doubles up to £100 per day if you bought your pack from Tesco (keep the receipt)! Watch the video for the specs. And let's see if we can win ourselves £10k! Eliza has already got her winnings shopping list ready with a new computer in the top spot!

Thursday, February 04, 2021

Fantastic Facts on Personal Finance You Need to Know / Personal_Finance / Debt & Loans

By: Steve_Barker

Wednesday, February 03, 2021

Here’s What’s More Important than the Recent Reddit GameStop Mania / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2021

By: P_Radomski_CFA

GameStop! Reddit! Silver manipulation (that’s been discussed for over two decades)! It’s exciting but pay attention to these more important factors.

Is the above really the key thing that’s happening in the markets right now? No, it’s only the most interesting thing. I admit, what we’re seeing on the Internet right now is truly absorbing, but one should realize that it’s what used to happen multiple times in history. This time it’s simply more visible as the conversations and associated images are publicly available and widely distributed.

In yesterday’s intraday Alert , I commented on the issue of the likely implications of these cumulative purchases on the precious metals market as a whole and what difference they are likely to make over the course of the following months and weeks – next to none.

Well, there is one effect that I’m expecting to see. It’s the increased volatility during the following price declines – likely proportionate to what was so vigorously bought in the last few days.

Wednesday, February 03, 2021

GameStop - Retail Traders and Reddit Rattle Wall Street – Market Rotations Rewards / Companies / Sector Analysis

By: Chris_Vermeulen

The big news has been GameStop’s incredible rally from price levels below $10 to an incredibly high price peak near $483.  The ability of retail traders to pull small accounts and actively target heavily shorted stocks, pushing short-sellers into a “short squeeze” has everyone talking about it.  Many people are calling for investigations on both sides saying the system is broken and this should never be allowed to happen.

Gamestop Rally Shakes Up Wall Street

Thanks to the ability of social media and smartphones, people all over the world can now share ideas, content, and excitement about a stock symbol or opportunity in the market in an instant.  Unlike in the 1980s, when individuals had to get on the phone and call their closest circle of friends, social media and technology allow one person to post a message that can instantly be seen by thousands or millions of people. News channels are more than willing to jump on the story and make it even bigger.  We live in interesting times where information flows faster and freer than ever before. The Gamestop Daily chart below shows what can happen when this happens.

Wednesday, February 03, 2021

The Wolf is At the Door (Or How to Protect Yourself Against This Bubble) / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Valuations

By: Paul_Lamont

More than1 Trillion shares traded in speculative over-the-counter (pink sheets) stocks in December.   In the options market, option trading by retail investors registered 46 million contracts in one day in early January. Reporters forBloomberg described events as "another day of euphoria" in "Day-Trader Heaven." Non-profitable tech companies have gone bonkers (see below).

Wednesday, February 03, 2021

Why Next Wave of Margin Calls Will Be FAR More "Disruptive" Than in 2000 or 2007 / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2021

By: EWI

"Can investors afford to borrow anymore?"

Financial history shows that every bear market has been followed by a bull market and vice versa.

So, the current bull market will end sooner or later.

The prior two bull market tops occurred in the years 2007 and 2000. One of the characteristics of each of those tops was investors' ramped up use of margin. In other words, market participants were borrowing heavily to buy stocks.

Wednesday, February 03, 2021

Life After Covid - 🆅🆁 360 Parrots Wonderland at Lorikeet Lagoon Chessington Worlds of Adventure / Politics / Pandemic

By: Anika_Walayat

It's a parrots wonderland fun in VR 360 at the Lorikeet Lagoon in Chessington Worlds of Adventure, the time before covid that will hopefully soon return.

Tuesday, February 02, 2021

How the Eurozone Affects Gold Price and Why You Should Care / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2021

By: P_Radomski_CFA

In our globalized economy, currency pairs have a negative correlation with gold, so how does the current EUR/USD situation impact the yellow metal?

It pays to pay attention to what is happening in Europe. As is well known, there are many currency pairs in the world, but the most traded one is the EUR/USD. How does that affect you as a gold investor? The equation goes something like this: if the economy of the Eurozone sinks and takes the EUR down with it, the USD rises – and vice-versa. Gold, which is usually inversely related to the dollar, will also either rise or decline based on the latter’s behavior.

Before we get to Europe though, let’s take a look at what gold is currently doing.

Once again, yesterday’s (Jan. 26) session was relatively uneventful on the technical front, but that doesn’t mean that the outlook is any more bullish.

Conversely, it remains bearish because of multiple developments that happened before the current pause. For instance, the invalidation of gold’s breakout above its 2011 high. Even though it had help from a sliding USD Index, the yellow metal still failed to hold above this critical support level.

Tuesday, February 02, 2021

Stock Market Bump in the Road? / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2021

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:  May continue until SPX reaches ~ 4150.

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, February 02, 2021

Silver Expectations Given GameStop Price Action and the Reddit Revolution / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2021

By: Chris_Vermeulen

Near the end of 2020, my research team identified trends, pullbacks, and overall upward/downward trends in US major markets as well as those for Gold and Silver.  It is time we revisited these early 2021 predictions in relation to what is happening in the markets currently. You can revisit our original publication entitled What To Expect in 2021 Part II – Gold, Silver, and SPY.

At the time we made these predictions, we were unaware of the global phenomenon, the Reddit #wallstreetbets movement, that was taking place.  Our expectations are based on our advanced predictive modeling system and what it sees as the highest probability outcome for price.  The recent news that this Reddit group has targeted a number of symbols (GME, AMC, BB, amongst others), as well as SILVER, may change the dynamics/liquidity of the markets very quickly.

Tuesday, February 02, 2021

Microsoft Stock Analysis - Top AI Tech Stocks Investing 2021 / Companies / Microsoft

By: Nadeem_Walayat

Microsoft is currently trading on an EC of 55 up from 50, basically awaiting earnings to play catch up to the stocks earlier spectacular bull run from a low of $131 to a high of $232. Where revenue growth is concerned AI is at it's very heart in terms of it's Azure cloud services platform revenues which are growing at a spectacular pace of approaching 50% per year much as Amazon's growth is increasingly being fuelled by AWS.