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A Video From an Epic Low

By Tim Knight - 3 weeks ago (26, May 2018 4:39:22 PM)

I wanted to share something I found kind of fascinating.

Last night, I was thumbing through the videos I’ve posted on YouTube (there are hundreds). I sorted by popularity The most popular by far, with over 9 million views is – – of all things – – the Oompa Loompa song. However, one of my most popular chart-based videos I’ve ever done is this one, which was during the deepest depths of the market drop in 2011 (the last meaningful drop we’ve had in seven years). It’s incredible on a number of levels.

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Money Laundering

By Tim Knight - 3 weeks ago (24, May 2018 8:45:53 AM)

My best percentage gainer today is Whirlpool, which I mentioned here as a short recently. It’s down over 7%.

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Gap. Yep.

By Tim Knight - 3 weeks ago (23, May 2018 7:56:31 AM)

I’ve been kind of hung up on the price gap in oil at 73.25. Yesterday, as we had pushed close enough to that number for me to be satisfied, I did a post called “Close Enough“, where I specifically pointed to XOP and wrote “I suspect this one is going to suffer the quickest.” Here is XOP now, with an arrow marking the timestamp of yesterday’s post.

The Faithfullest of the Old Faithfuls

By Tim Knight - 1 month ago (02, May 2018 11:12:51 AM)

There’s just nothing else to say – – the Emerging Markets Bond fund just keeps performing……even though the rest of the market seems utterly and completely unable to fall and stay down more than seven or eight seconds.

Emerging Markets Bonds=Old Faithful

By Tim Knight - 1 month ago (25, Apr 2018 10:33:57 AM)