Friday, April 13, 2018
How I Own My Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: Axel_Merk
Those who own gold often argue how to best own it. I encourage anyone holding gold to assess the pros and cons of different choices of gold ownership to make an educated rather than emotional decision. Let me explain.
I commissioned the above cartoon back in 2011 in response to an assertion by CNBC’s Steve Liesman no one would accept a gold coin in a grocery store. My take was that, hell, if I offered a gold coin, I’m pretty sure I would find a taker if I wanted to exchange it for some groceries.
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Friday, April 13, 2018
ISupply Energy Consumer Warning - Never Put Your Account Into Credit! / ConsumerWatch / Household Bills
By: N_Walayat
ISupply Energy is one of many small gas and electricity suppliers to UK customers at generally competitive prices. Unfortunately they are able to achieve their competitive prices through having far less overheads in terms of systems in place to manage their customer accounts. I say unfortunately for when things go wrong then communicating with the likes of Isupply energy is literally like talking to a brick wall as has been my experience over the past 18 months as an electricity customer.
So why I am not happy if their electricity prices are competitive against the likes of the bigger players such as NPower, British Gas and Scottish Energy?
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Thursday, April 12, 2018
SPX Resistance May Prompt A Massive Short Squeeze / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Our analysis continues today with this research of a potential Short Squeeze in the SPX and other broader markets. As you are probably well aware, we, at www.TheTechnicalTraders.com, have been nailing the markets with our detailed analysis for quite a while. Our Advanced Analytical tools have called nearly every move. Nearly two weeks ago we called a massive market bottom to form in the US markets – well before just about anyone else even saw a bottom formation. In fact, we have already banked 10% profit on the first half of our best-cherry-picked setup for subscribers and it’s continuing to rally more.
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Hot War and Cold Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018
By: Raul_I_Meijer
This is turning into a comedy. A black comedy, for sure, but still. As both the Skripal novichok ‘poisoning’ case in Britain and the ‘chemical attack’ in Douma, Syria fall flat on their faces on a total and absolute lack of evidence, it’s becoming clear that western ‘authorities’ are not at all planning to let go of the privilege that in times gone by allowed them to claim whatever they wanted and demand to be believed.
And despite the insane amounts of spying that underlies their business models and will lead to their demise(s), here is where social media do play a decisive role. See, if you’re an ‘authority’, there’s nothing you would rather do than to close down those social media that let people spread news that contradicts and/or doubts what you just said, and undermines that privilege. But that also would mean you can’t spy on them anymore through social media. A toss-up?!
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Thursday, April 12, 2018
Rise Of The New Commodities Bull Market? / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Chris_Vermeulen
New massive breakout patterns have been setting up in the markets for months and our research team at the Wealth Building Newsletter has been quietly watching these setups – waiting for the right time to alert our followers of these exceptional opportunities. Today, we are announcing our research and triggers to all of our followers so you can attempt for profit from our hard work and see just how critical our “Adaptive Learning Tools” are for success.
We believe the following charts clearly show just how important these breakout patterns are for traders. This first chart shows the Stage 1 Basing formation that we’ve been following for quite a while with our Adaptive Dynamic Learning Cycles. These cycle projections help us to determine the future potential of any markets as well as help us to understand historical and current price cycle rotations.
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Thursday, April 12, 2018
5 "Core" Elliott Wave Patterns, Ferrari (NYSE: RACE) / / Company Chart Analysis
By: EWI
The stock of Ferrari has been rising strongly since 2016. Can you spot the Elliott wave pattern? It has profound implications for the trend in RACE from here...
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Thursday, April 12, 2018
Stock Market High Volatility is Not Consistently Bearish for Stocks / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Troy_Bombardia
The stock market started off in 2018 with a lot of volatility. The S&P 500 saw 23 trading days of >1% movements in Q1 (CLOSE vs previous day’s CLOSE).
This is supposed to be a long term bearish sign for the market. See this popular tweet:
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Thursday, April 12, 2018
China's Trade War Against America / Politics / China US Conflict
By: BATR
The Chinese regime is the creation of the globalists. Going back to the Nixon era, Henry Kissinger set into motion a staged and preferential trading system that would inevitably build the Red Communists into the very model for global dominance. Approving China into the World Trade Organization guaranteed a distorted playing field by favoring PRC and allowing their draconian conditions to engage in business by Oriental Marxists. Even The Guardian reports that World trade rules too weak to stop China distorting market, “It is now clear that the WTO rules are not sufficient to constrain China’s market-distorting behavior.” The end result produced a perverse capitalism that merged with totalitarian oligarchists to distort, extort and circumvent any semblance of a legitimate free trading exchange.
Thursday, April 12, 2018
5 Short Elliott Wave Trading Videos to test and Improve Your EW Knowledge / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
Dear Reader,
Our friends at Elliott Wave International (EWI) often say that one of the fastest ways to learn Elliott is to test your knowledge in real markets.
So, they’ve put together 5 free, short videos where Jeffrey Kennedy, the editor of EWI’s popular service for traders seeking to improve, Trader’s Classroom, shows you 5 charts of U.S.-traded stocks -- and then...
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Thursday, April 12, 2018
Gold Hedging From Hedge Funds & Traders Continues to Surge / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: GoldSilver
It’s a relatively quiet trend, but the most active of investors—hedge funds and traders—are aggressively putting gold hedges in place.
It shouldn’t really be a surprise, given the recent spike in volatility in the stock market. It hasn’t been reported much in the mainstream, but an increasing number of people who make their living from investing are betting on gold.
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Thursday, April 12, 2018
Retirement Expectations of Consumers Fall Short / Personal_Finance / Pensions & Retirement
By: MoneyFacts
• Over a quarter of consumers under the age of 45 only expect to retire after the age of 70
• 14.8% of consumers under the age of 45 worry they’ll never be able to retire
• 79.5% of those aged between 45 and 64 hope to retire by 65
• More than half of respondents knew exactly how much is in their pension pot
• Respondents desire for 63% of their current annual income to be their pension income
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Thursday, April 12, 2018
ADL Price Anomaly and TNA Stet-up for a 5% to 10% Stock Price Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Our Adaptive Dynamic Learning (ADL) modeling system has been hot. Now we want to share something super exciting with all our followers – a super trade setup in the ES. Our research team at Technical Traders Ltd. has identified what may be one of the best trading signals we’ve seen in a long time – a potential +100pt move. That’s right, our advanced predictive modeling system is been calling a bottom in the markets for over 10 days now and we believe the following charts show us the that S&P will be one of the leaders in the move higher. Therefore, we want to urge our followers to be prepared for a potential 100+ pt upside move in the ES within the next 3~5 days and to trade accordingly – we certainly will be.
Thursday, April 12, 2018
"Get off My Tree!" Sheffield Anti-Tree Felling Protest Ready to March! / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The "Get Off My Tree!" Sheffield anti-trees felling protest of 7th April 2018 started as a march from Sheffield city hall and around the city centre. Where this video covers the lead up to and into the first few minutes of the march that also apparently includes the arrest of a Police officer for blowing a whistle!
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Last Remaining Copy of Stolen-Data is worth $100 Billion to Russia. Good Chance Facebook Will Be Shut Down / Companies / Cyber War
By: Andrew_Butter
Evidence is emerging that the psych-ops techniques allegedly used by AggregateIQ to brainwash electors, were extraordinary effective. But now everyone who allegedly had copies of the stolen data that was used to profile and target; is saying that if they did have copies, which they largely deny, they have deleted them.
They have had plenty of time; the story broke in a year ago; last-week, Britain’s answer to Robo-Cop, Policeman-Plod, searched the offices of Cambridge Analytica, guess what he didn’t find? Meanwhile BBC Channel-4 reports that AggregateIQ seems to have disappeared into thin-air, doubtless they trashed their hard-drives on their way out. What’s left?
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Time to Safeguard Global Free Trade / Politics / Protectionism
By: Dan_Steinbock
For a year, President Trump has promoted global division and trade friction, while China has defended global trade and cooperation. It is time to defend the open, global economy.If President Xi Jinping’s speech was highly anticipated in the Boao Forum, it was even more eagerly waited in Washington and Wall Street, as trade tensions have begun to penalize US markets.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018
The Petroyuan Shift: The Eclipse of the Petrodollar Monopoly / Currencies / China Currency Yuan
By: Dan_Steinbock
As oil can now be traded with RMB-denominated contracts, the rise of the petroyuan will accelerate the internationalization of the Chinese currency as investors begin to increase their allocations into Chinese financial assets.In late March, as international media focused on Trump’s tariffs and the prospects of a trade war, renminbi-denominated oil contracts began trading in the Shanghai International Energy Exchange (INE), for the first time. That will foster the rise of petroyuan, which may cause a dramatic shift in global asset allocations as institutional investors begin to diversify into China’s onshore bond markets.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Market Nature and The Elliott wave Theory / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: ElliottWave-Forecast
The human nature by definition is the general psychological characteristics, feelings, and behavioral traits of humankind. As such, everyone shares this nature. Similarly, the market also has a market nature and since it is created by humans, we can try to understand what the market nature is. Today’s market is the result of either manual trades by individual traders or automated computer’s algorithm which itself is also created by humans. The computer follows the same technique in each time frame and repeats the same condition over and over again.
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Virtual Personal Relationships / Politics / Internet
By: BATR
One of the most familiar themes that children are taught is that mankind is a social being. From the earliest age, the process of socialization is integrated into every learning experience or social contact. Getting along with one's peers is preached as a primary objective for each succeeding generation. Departing from previous contemporaries has been a common trend that shapes and redirects society. Differences between parents and children are often stressed, but the shift among personal relationships, at its very core, has altered from the inception of the cyber age.
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Gold Cycle is Up / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: The_Gold_Report
Technical analyst Jack Chan updates the gold and silver charts and finds buy signals for both gold and silver.
Our proprietary cycle indicator is up.
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Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Gold Holding Its Own / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: Richard_Mills
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information
What the heck is going on with gold? The past few weeks have seen global equities falling amid a broad selloff in tech stocks, but the traditional safe haven metal has barely budged, floating along in a fairly tight range of between around $1320 and $1330 an ounce with the exception of a spike to $1354 on March 26 and a slip on March 16 and 20. See the tech stock-dominant Nasdaq one-month chart versus one-month gold.