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Monthly Sector Report – Gold Miners 2013
April 2013 saw one of the worst price capitulations on gold futures including its biggest single-day plunge in 30 years. On April 15, gold fell by more than 9% to $1,361/ounce, its most spectacular drop since 1983. In two days, the metal had lost a total of 13% and dropped to its lowest level in [...]
April 2013 Review, May Preview
GOODBYE KEPPEL TOWERS!
After six and a half years at Keppel Towers, The Pattern Trader Tutorial (WAT) is leaving this old “home” and headed for new premises. We leave behind many experiences and take with us only the memories of this place that has been home to AKLTG for almost ten years.
In December 2006, The Pattern [...]
The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America – Chapter 18
The Great Deformation:
The Corruption of Capitalism in America
by David Stockman
Excerpts from: CHAPTER 18
THE GREAT DEFORMATION OF CAPITAL MARKETS
How Wall Street Got Huge
The collapse of three separate $5 trillion financial bubbles in less than a decade attested to the deeply impaired condition of the nation’s capital markets. Yet the spectacular round-trips of the S&P 500 and [...]
The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America – Chapter 17
The Great Deformation:
The Corruption of Capitalism in America
by David Stockman
Excerpts from: CHAPTER 17
SERIAL BUBBLES
The period between Greenspan’s arrival at the Fed in 1987 and the dot-com crash in early 2000 brought a remarkable change in the finances of American households. Bubble finance supplanted the old-fashioned habits of savings and frugality. At the center of this [...]
March 2013 Review, April Preview
Just like that, a whole quarter is done and dusted. My Q1 went by in a flash (no thanks to all the renovations and moving and Chinese New Year and cleaning up the old 3-room for rental and finally finding a tenant for it) which left me hardly any time for anything else. At least [...]
February 2013 In Review, March Preview
I don’t have a lot to report about my February except to say that it came and went in a flash!
We had Chinese NewYear, … um, gimme a minute … we had Chinese New Year …
I don’t remember much else … no graduating batch, no major event to talk of … oh wait! There was!
Jay [...]
January 2013 Sector Report
This is our second run using our new program for seasonality reliability. And this time, we’re putting it out on the Internet Companies to see if there are opportunities in this industry in the coming months.
In the months to come, this program will be available to all our members (for a yet undecided fee) at www.patterntradertools.com. [...]
January 2013 Review, February Preview
January came and went like a whirlwind and everything happened so fast. Before I knew it, I am staring at the calendar that read “February 2013″ … where did January go? I wasn’t that busy as I only had one batch of WAT and not much travelling. WAT63 finished their tutorial with me on 29 [...]
Monthly Sector Report – Asset Managers 2013
This report is based purely on seasonal trends in the Asset Managers industry based on statistical returns over the last 10 years. Here’s how to read the chart using Goldman Sachs as an example …
The chart shows as the average 10-year return (percentage on the left Y-axis) on GS while the percentage on the horizontal [...]
December 2012 Review, January 2013 Preview
Happy New Year!!
Now that 2012 is done and dusted … now that we’re still alive after 21 December 2012 … now that Fiscal Cliff has proven to be a non-event … we can now look forward and get ready to take on 2013 with all guns blazing and take on what the markets and economies [...]
