What to Make of NFP -33,000?

Non Farm Payrolls printed a negative number for the first time since 2010. Of course the Hurricanes are in there to large degree but still, it's a worse number than…

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Nasdaq 100: Predictable

A couple days ago we looked at who was in an Ascending Triangle. It was the NDX, which was following its leader, the Semi index. We have long followed the…

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Look Who’s in an Ascending Triangle

It's about time I get back to some plain old charting. Forget the ratios, the market indicators and all the crazy stuff and just chart things, man. At least sometimes.…

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Gold in 3 Time Frames (plus personal dogma)

Please don't listen to the "gold smack down" cry babies, always making rationalizations or excuses, I beg of you. Don't listen to the "gold is nothing but a stupid rock…

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R.I.P.

I had planned to do what I normally don't do and write about a news event, since the shooting in Las Vegas had a financial component, which was a headline…

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US Dollar and the Bond Continuum ©

The US currency is up this morning and surprise surprise, gold, among other things is down (gold bugs should not be in worry mode, they should be in general preparation…

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The 30 Year Yield Continuum © & NFTRH 467 Out Now

This snippet from NFTRH 467 is an extension of the Bonds & Related Indicators segment that delivered some messages to me that I feel I have got to take seriously…

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Intel Daily, Weekly & Monthly

This was one of the first NFTRH+ ideas going back to the free add-on service's beginning and INTC's big picture breakout in 2014. Let's work from bigger to smaller pictures…

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NFTRH; 2 Sectors Keying Off Interest Rates

As everybody knows, long-term interest rates have been rising since the beginning of September, well before the FOMC supposedly surprised markets with a lean to a hawkish stance (for December)…

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BBRY Clown Show Over

As noted in NFTRH 466's NFTRH+; Charts & Notes segment... BBRY clowned me last week as I bought it, and thought I was smart when it went up big the…

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Effective Market Management: Art & Science

The notion that there is art involved in interpreting the economy and financial markets is probably heresy to many market participants and probably 99.9% of economists (that .1% guy being…

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