Friday, February 23, 2018
One Belt, One Road, One Direction for Precious Metals / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: MoneyMetals
All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst the less able man sometimes loses everything by neglecting a single one of those chances.
~Napoleon Bonaparte
China's launch several years ago of the One Belt, One Road Initiative is set to become the biggest commercial linking-system constructing project in world history. In the book David Morgan and I co-authored, Second Chance: How to Make and Keep Big Money from the Coming Gold and Silver Shock-Wave, we discuss the "New Silk Road" this way:
...the plan, described as an “economic partnership map with multiple rings interconnected with one another” envisions an economic land belt and a maritime road linking Beijing through Europe to the Mediterranean. This modern equivalent of the old Silk Road would weave together the economies of over half the world’s population via transit corridors of highways, high-speed rail, fiber-optic cables, pipelines, and air and seaport hubs.
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Friday, February 23, 2018
Gold’s Curious Sentiment / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: Zeal_LLC
Gold is faring quite well today technically, though you sure wouldn’t know it from the rampant bearish sentiment. Gold’s price is in a strong uptrend over a year old, high in both its current upleg and young bull market. Gold isn’t far from breaking out to its best levels since September 2013, a really big deal. The stock markets even finally sold off after years of unnatural calm. Yet traders are still down on gold.
Across all markets price action drives psychology. When something’s price is rising, traders get excited and bullish on it. So they increasingly buy to ride that upside momentum, amplifying it. Of course the opposite is true when a price is falling, which breeds bearishness and capital flight. Given gold’s great technical picture today, investors and speculators alike should be growing enthusiastic about its upside potential.
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Friday, February 23, 2018
Vicious Trio Keeps Bitcoin in Chokehold / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Mike_McAra
The craziness of it. Bitcoin has been storming up and down, from $20,000 to $6,000 and back to $11,000 again. This volatility makes most traders’ stomachs churn, their faces go pale and their palms start to sweat. As if this action weren’t enough, an unknown trader has put their money where their mouth is – all $400 million of it. One can’t help but wonder what in the market justifies such an extreme move. On the Fortune website, we read:
An anonymous trader has sunk $400 million—enough to buy New York state’s most expensive home twice with change left over—into the cryptocurrency, raising his or her stake from 55,000 coins to more than 96,000 between Feb. 9 and Feb. 12. And that buy-in is already paying substantial returns.
Friday, February 23, 2018
Relationship Between Crude Oil and U.S. Dollar in February 2018 / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Nadia_Simmons
On Thursday, the price of black gold moved higher after the EIA weekly report showed an unexpected decline in crude oil inventories. Is this one bullish factor strong enough to push light crude higher in the following days? What did the buyers miss?
Yesterday, the Energy Information Administration reported that crude oil inventories declined by 1.6 million barrels in the week ended Feb. 16, beating expectations for a gain of around 1.8 million barrels. This first in four weeks decline in crude oil stocks in combination with a smaller than expected increase in gasoline inventories and drop in distillates supplies encouraged oil bulls to act. As a result, the price of black gold climbed to an intraday high slightly above $63, but did this increase change the short-term outlook for crude oil?
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Friday, February 23, 2018
Why The Next Oil Boom Will Be Fueled By Blockchain / Commodities / Oil Companies
By: OilPrice_Com
Big Oil is due for a disruption.
The world’s most important industry has been carrying on without any significant changes in its day to day routine for far too long.
But now, the new tech on the block has its sights set on the multi-trillion-dollar oil and gas sector.
It’s official: Blockchain technology has infiltrated Big Oil.
The hype behind blockcain has reached a full-blown frenzy. And for good reason.
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Friday, February 23, 2018
Gold Bull and Bear Markets / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
In the previous part, we thoroughly analyzed the bull and bear trends in the U.S. dollar. But what about gold cycles? Let’s look at the chart below, which shows the long-term behavior of gold prices.
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Friday, February 23, 2018
Why Recent Lows Are Crucial for US Dollar / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Nadia_Simmons
Since Friday, the USD Index extends increases and makes up for lost points. Looking at the daily chart you can even conclude that the bulls use every opportunity to push away their opponents from the recent lows. Why are they so important to them? We took a closer look at the situation and we already know the Achilles’ heel of the bulls. Do you also want to know it? We invite you to read today's alert.
Focus on the USD Index
Before we analyze the recent changes in our currency pairs, we decided to take a closer look at the current situation in the USD Index as it is the key driver who generates the major changes on the currency market.
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Friday, February 23, 2018
Are Stocks About to Start the Next Leg Down? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Graham_Summers
A key issue to note if you want to time market turns is that stocks are always the last asset class to “get it.”
Consider that high yield credit or Junk Bonds (HYG) have lead stocks from the January ’16 lows.
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Friday, February 23, 2018
Will Bitcoin be Larger Than NEO in 2018? / Currencies / BlockChain
By: Boris_Dzhingarov
NEO is currently the 7th largest cryptocurrency, and it is growing fast. Just one year ago, NEO was only worth roughly 12 cents per coin. However, the currentprice of NEO is roughly $117. Despite the fact that bitcoin is currently about 22 times larger than NEO by market cap, if NEO keeps growing at its current pace, it could hypothetically catch up to bitcoin. This is especially true if bitcoin experiences a slump, or if NEO increases its growth rate.
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Thursday, February 22, 2018
How to Trade Stock Index Price Spikes / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Last night the stock market flashed us a quick price spike on the SP500 index and we sent this out to our members as soon as we saw it. Price spikes are the markets way to tipping its hand for us to see where the big player’s should move in the next 1-3 trading sessions. Most spikes trade targets are hit within 12 hours. Last night spike provided trades with a $300. $550, or $1050 profit per ES mini contract they traded. But with that said, spikes can be traded with SP500 index ETF’s as well as long as your broker allows you to trade Pre/Post market hours, which most brokers do allow.
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Thursday, February 22, 2018
Stock Market Bounce May be Over... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX has met its 50-day Moving Average at 2729.61 and the 61.8 Fib retracement level at 2730.00. Its high was 2731.26.
ZeroHedge comments, “Sigh...
Cash markets are open!! Buy 'em!!!”
JPM’s head quant, Marko Kolanovic now thinks it’s time to start buying.
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Thursday, February 22, 2018
Gold Bulls, Brace Yourselves – Fed Interest Rate Hikes Are Coming! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
Are they? As usual, the FOMC minutes provoked diverse interpretations, both dovish and hawkish. Let’s analyze them, separating the wheat from the chaff. What do the recent minutes really mean for the gold market?
Hawks Attack Bullion
We have long warned investors about the hawkish treat. For example, as early as in the October edition of the Market Overview, we wrote that the Fed under Powell could be more hawkish than under Yellen. In December, after Powell’s nomination, we elaborated on our stance, pointing out two important changes: (1) the distinct macroeconomic environment – think about faster economic growth and more expansionary fiscal policy – in which Powell would have to act; (2) the composition of the FOMC in 2018 will move slightly from the dovish to the hawkish side. As a result, we stated that “a more hawkish policy would be a headwind for gold prices.”
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Thursday, February 22, 2018
Are These Stock Market Bear Patterns Unfolding Before Us Now? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Harry_Dent
Last week, markets fell out of bed. Yesterday, they got up and dusted themselves off.I’ve been warning for months now that U.S. markets are in a rising bearish wedge. This pattern tends to be the last move in a long bull market.
Stocks go up in a last orgasmic move in a narrowing channel – or wedge – with little volatility. And then, suddenly, the music stops.
It was thanks to me identifying this wedge that I called the May 2013 top in the junk bond market – to the day!
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Thursday, February 22, 2018
Stock Market SPX Probable Pop-n-drop / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Good Morning!
SPX had a bearish outside reversal yesterday. There is a slight difference between an outside and key reversal. The key reversal happens at the peak of the rally, while an outside reversal may have a lower high. Both appears to be equally bearish in these circumstances.
SPX futures bounced in overnight trading, suggesting a possible retracement as far as the 50-day Moving Average at 2729.78. Short-term support/resistance has performed a death cross with the mid-Cycle and 50-day. You can see that a violation of Short-term support is like opening the trap door.
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Thursday, February 22, 2018
Stocks Fail to Hold Gains, But Still No Correction / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Paul_Rejczak
The first part of yesterday's trading session was controlled by the bulls and the S&P 500 index was gaining ahead of the FOMC Minutes release at 2:00 p.m. Then the uptrend reversed and stocks fell below Tuesday's closing prices. Investors continued taking short-term profits off the table after week-long move up from previous Friday's lows. The market trades around 6% below its late January all-time high. Stocks are expected to open slightly higher today, but will they extend their yesterday's late session sell-off or bounce and continue trading within three-day-long consolidation?
The U.S stock market indexes lost 0.2-0.7% on Wednesday, as investors continued taking profits after week-long rally from February 9 lows. The S&P 500 index extended its short-term fluctuations along the level of 2,700-2,750. It retraced more than 61.8% of its late January - early February sell-off. However, it bounced off that resistance level again and reversed its intraday uptrend following the FOMC Minutes release at 2:00 p.m. The broad stock market index currently trades 6% below January 26 record high of 2,872.87. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.7%, and the technology Nasdaq Composite lost 0.2% on Wednesday.
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Thursday, February 22, 2018
Why We Should Buy Essay / Personal_Finance / Education
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Thursday, February 22, 2018
The Latest US Debt Blow / Interest-Rates / US Debt
By: Rodney_Johnson
Count me among the worriers that thought our debt was a problem at $10 trillion… and then at $15 trillion.I was wrong.
Or, at least, those levels didn’t seem to phase investors, who kept putting down their cold, hard cash to buy U.S. Treasury bonds.
As I shook my head over the past several years, we continued our profligate ways, and now our national debt stands at a whopping $20.5 trillion, slightly more than our annual GDP.
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Thursday, February 22, 2018
Youtube Partner Programme New Rules 2019 - 4000 Subscribers, 10000 Hours Watch Time... / Companies / Google
By: N_Walayat
On the 20th of February Youtube demonetized all channels with less than 1000 subscribers and 4,000 hours annual watch time, ejecting them from the Youtube partner programme that amongst several benefits included monetization of videos which in most cases for Youtubers resulted in a token return of typically about $5-10 per month. So the blow for being ejected from the youtube partner programme was not financial. This leaves small youtubers with a continuing up hill battle to reach the new bar set at 1000 subs and 4k watch time hours before they will be reconsidered for joining the Youtube partner programme.
Thursday, February 22, 2018
The Fastest Growing State Populations / Housing-Market / Demographics
By: Harry_Dent
One of the buzzwords since Trump became president is “growth.” He’s made ridiculous promises about economic growth that he can’t possibly make good on.But let’s take a look at another type of growth that affects us all: population growth, specifically in the continental U.S.
It should be no surprise that very high-cost states like New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, California, and Hawaii are NOT growing very fast.
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Thursday, February 22, 2018
The Correlation Between Cryptocurrenices & GDP / Currencies / BlockChain
By: Rodney_Johnson
It was the best of times, it was the best of times. OK, that’s not exactly the Dickens quote from A Tale of Two Cities, but even with the recent volatility and inflation jitters, the sentiment seems to fit the mood of the marketstoday. And what’s not to like?Tax reform will put more coin in most people’s pockets in the weeks ahead, not to mention fill corporate coffers to the point of overflowing. Based on estimates of future spending and earnings, investors are driving stocks higher from what were already record levels.
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