I was going to title this one "Dad, I'm Dating a Negro!", but I figured some of you are sensitive, since I can't even called Bernanke "Shalom" anymore, so I decided against it. Anyway………..
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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A Touchy Subject – Part 2 (by Mark St.Cyr)
I must assume some of you at first blush wondered why in the world I would even touch upon such a topic. It’s a fair question.
The reason is more times than not we believe one thing is driving a
market. Yet, we find the actual drivers aren’t anything we first
considered. Remember when a cellphone was the newest and greatest device
known to man before it was replaced with a smart phone?
Think back to all those great features we enjoyed while continually
adding more at a near breathtaking pace. You, me, and a lot of others
believed those updates or added features were caused by our demand or,
our ability to influence the market of cellphones. After all it’s all
about us. Right? Wrong…
Looking Good, Tesla!
Within days, I’m picking up a Model S (long-since reserved; there’s a one-year wait). I have a deep fondness for Tesla; their founder, Elon Musk, is an incredible entrepreneur; the attention to detail to the product line is Steve Jobsian, and the chart looks poised to break out. I’m going old school and buying a bunch of stock for my kids, getting it in certificate form, and shoving it into a safe deposit box. I think this company has a very bright future ahead.
The Best Way to Trade Twitter
Just like we
said when Facebook IPO’d, don’t trade it…
We’re saying the
same thing about Twitter.
“Just the Facts”
The following is excerpted from this week’s edition of Notes From the Rabbit Hole, NFTRH 224:
“Just the Facts”
To once again quote the man I respected more than any other market
professional I have come in contact with, [a late friend], we will list
“just the facts” in order to define a complicated, yet very interesting
period in time.
- Stock sentiment was at an extreme over-bearish level by what
Sentimtrader.com’s data label “dumb money” last summer and as expected, a
continuation rally of the bull market out of 2009 sprung from that
sentiment backdrop.
- The rally’s character is currently of one-way momentum compared to its jagged, up and down nerve-racking beginnings.
- The sentiment profile is now opposite to its over-bearish state (by dumb money) at the rally’s beginning.
- The bull remains in full force with a string of 4 sets of major higher highs and higher lows intact out of 2009.
- Major events over the last year included a resolution by the ECB to
bailout insolvent union members, the election in the US of a president
committed to entitlements and credit expansion, the commitment by the US
Fed to use increasingly inflationary policy to manage an economy it
deems below capacity, a Kabuki Dance in service to the pretense that the
Fiscal Cliff ™ debate was anything more than for show, a kicking of the
US debt ceiling can a bit further down the road, Chinese stimulus
operations and the election of a leader in Japan who called out the BOJ
and has committed to stimulating inflation in his country. Have we
missed anything? Yes, there was much more.
- Signs of economic expansion are cropping up in the economy, from the
anecdotal evidence of semiconductor equipment orders we noted last week
to a 53.1 reading on the ISM report to tepid jobs growth.
