Market Matters
The PatternTraderTools.com Monthly Sector Report
For those not in the know, I have been publishing a Monthly Sector Report for the last two and a half years.
The report features one particular sector or industry every month with break-downs of individual stocks and ETFs relative to the sector. Occasionally, there is even a surprise BONUS! ticker to boot.
If you have no [...]
August 2011 in Review, September Preview
If this year is threatening to go into recession next year, don’t expect miracles from the market in the coming months. Given the economic and political state of most of the leading economies in the world now, there is little to cheer about with all six of the top six economies complaining about uncontrollable bleeding of [...]
The Shit Gets Closer To The Fan
The first week of August 2011 has been the most tragic week in the market since the drop in 2008. In the crash of 6 to 10 October 2008, the DOW lost 22.14% in that single week.
Not since the January 2009 tanker at the end of that fateful Financial Crisis have we had worse … until [...]
Is The Sky Really Falling?
This is about the time your Black Box system fails and you start copping intolerable losses. Your sell signals start popping up all over the place in conflict with buy signals. Your MACD or RSI starts looking funky and you start doubting your indicators.
Those who don’t believe in stops are now regretting not putting one [...]
July 2011 Review, August Preview
Roller Coaster. That’s the only way to describe my July 2011 … one helluva roller coaster. And that refers to everything that happened to me and not just in the market.
I got hit by two different viruses in three weeks and was on medication for all those weeks. That made me groggy and high most [...]
The Leverage Leviathan
Leviathan is one of the seven princes of Hell and its gatekeeper.
I got a simple but very interesting query in my forum which prompted some thinking. What transpired thereafter was rather inspiring but ends rather depressingly. Enjoy the read …
Are the market’s fundamentals and sentiment right now the same with Oct 2008?
From your experience, can you share whether [...]
China: A New Kind Of Economic Failure In The Making?
This article is a personal point of view from a very layman’s opinion. It is an opinion I have held for a long time and some of my earlier opinions have played themselves out in the past year as China went from strength into inflation. My opinion does not have to be yours and you [...]
Rock Stars Should Be Presidents!
Now that’s they way to run a country!! Rock on Gene!
Was QE2 a Waste?
I love this one. And still they ask, “Will there be a QE3?” … my answer is – Not when they are this broke.
Why I don’t use P/E Ratios
Watch this video and listen closely to the second half of it. I have always respected Mark Hulbert’s analysis as he has had an outstanding track record on such things as market valuations, economic temperature and an uncanny timing of the market.
Based on the modern modified version of calculating P/E Ratios, this current market is [...]
