ISM Provides A Reference Point In 2007 and 2008, the average reading of the Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) was 48.4; the median reading was 49.9. A PMI reading above 50 indicates that the manufacturing economy is generally expanding; below 50 it is generally contracting. How does ISM’s PMI look…
Errr, this chart is starting to get hard to ignore isn’t it? It is a gold mining sector fundamental indicator. I have no clue how the jockeys using only nominal charts (i.e. the HUI is in breakdown/crash mode, hold the bearish line) and resolutely short the miners, do it. You can’t use charts in a…
Last week showed a lesson Covered Call writing using (UVXY) as example showing how you can collect “Rent” without owing property. Mr. UVXY has seen (3) sets of “renters” in the past 30 days collected $4400 in rent from just $22,000 worth of stock …see how in the video lesson. Video Length: 00:10:43
The price of oil has finally started to obey the law. What law is that? The Law of Supply and Demand. Thanks to the US fracking boom that has done this (see chart) to US production, the supply of oil worldwide has outstripped demand since 2012. So why haven’t prices fallen before this summer? And are falling…
Despite the junior resource sector being near a major bottom and going through a bear market of epic proportions, I still believe that this may be one of the best times to add to quality positions. Nothing perfects one’s craft in the financial markets like a bear market. In a bear market one has to…
The “No” in the Swiss referendum was seemingly the end for gold at first. First, the gold price went from $1,167 to a low of $1,143, but that is where it ended. It was not so surprising that the gold price dropped significantly at the end of last week, because trading is always quite thin…
“Davidson” submits: Here is the SP500 Intrinsic Value vs. SP500 again. Only ~5% over priced and housing and commercial construction AND financial inst lending have really not begun. So nowhere near the level of leverage which results in severe corrections. What others do is make comparisons to nonsensical patterns. The first is using an avg…
The average return of our best scoring ADRs from 1-year ago (12/2/2013) returned 12.55% in the past year, with no turnover. That generated 1,197 bps of excess to the MSCI EAFE index. The best performers from our list last year include SIG up 72%, SHPG up 62%, IRS up 49%, RDY up 47%, and TTM up 42%. The average…
Media Spins Horrible Holiday Sales as Reflecting Economic Strength. Audio Length: 00:24:43
I wanted to find 5 good small caps with very consistent momentum. I used Barchart to sort the S&P 600 Small Cap Index stocks for the 5 with the most frequent new highs in the last month, ten used the Flipchart feature to review the charts. Today’s list includes: Tessera Technologies (NASDAQ:TSRA), Higher One Holdings (NYSE:ONE), Kaiser Aluminum (NASDAQ:KALU), Triquint…
