Monthly Archives: December 2014

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There has only been one other time in history when the price of oil has crashed by more than 40 dollars in less than 6 months. The last time this happened was during the second half of 2008, and the beginning of that oil price crash preceded the great financial collapse that happened later that year…

EUR/USD Forex Signal For December 1, 2014

EUR/USD Signal Update Last Thursday’s signals expired without being triggered as the price did not reach either 1.2564 or 1.2442 during that day’s London session. Today’s EUR/USD Signals Risk 0.75% Trades may only be taken between 8am and 5pm London time. Short Trade 1 Go short after bearish price action on the H1 time frame immediately…

December Stock Considerations

As we head into the home stretch of 2014 a great opportunity is seemingly handed to us for the month of December. That opportunity comes in the form of continued weakness in the oil and materials sector as depressed commodity prices have given rise to a sea of great dividend income opportunities for those willing…

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Top scoring weekly returns:  Buy and Hold 1 Year Utilities and industrial goods are the two best scoring sectors. Consumer goods, services, and healthcare also score above average. Tilt toward small cap stocks across utilities. In industrial goods, focus on large cap stocks. In consumer goods and healthcare concentrate on large and mid cap stocks,…

China Manufacturing PMI Drops To 8-Month Lows, Teeters On Brink O

From exuberant credit-fueled cycle highs in July, China’s official Manufacturing PMI has done nothing but drop as the hangover-effect from the credit-impulse weighs once again on the now commodity-collateral crushed nation. At 50.3 (missing expectations of 50.5 for the 2nd month in a row), this is the lowest print since March. All 5 components dropped led…

How To Ride An Aging Bull

Yesterday marked the fifteenth time I have served as a guest columnist for The Striking Price at Barron’s and How to Ride an Aging Bull is one of the few articles I have written for Barron’s that has not focused almost exclusively on the VIX and volatility. In the Barron’s article I note that pundits have been calling this…