It's pretty obvious to me that the S&P has some sort of regular big pump n dumps going on. I'm not sure what the nature of this is at the moment but I hypothesize that it could be anything as innocent

Introduction As everyone who reads this blog knows, I'm an equity bear. Pardon me if I think buying at the all-time high is a stupid idea and pardon me if I observe history closely when I say that

Introduction Derivatives are a popular bogeyman because of the role they play in ultimately helping people lose money. Sometimes in vast amounts. They became a byword for irresponsible trading during the

Introduction  If you are even the slightest bit aware of what Bitcoin is, then you are likely aware that Bitcoin is issued into the Bitcoin economy through the mining process. Though lots of purists

The following chart is taken from Société Générale's research into the sensitivity of US equities to a higher interest rate environment. Specifically, with respect to the rate on US government treasuries.

I run a Facebook group called "The Big Short: Profit From The Coming Crash" ( because I believe that screwing the horribly inflated stock market for everything it has happens to be one of the

Outline Cometh the man, cometh the hour. And yes, the hour is nigh for the USD index. Lets look at what's going on using the data from Macrotrends databse. The Dollar has formed a 80% of a key bearish

As I've written on previous articles I think cryptocurrency exchanges are utterly useless for getting any decent info about the network or the state of the market. The reason is that most of the volume

The S&P500 has been one of the best performing American indexes since the financial crisis 10 years ago. The 50 year chart shows the bull run in graphic detail. In a little under 10 years (3467 days

Introduction I will start this piece off by demonstrating how the dollar can have far-reaching international effects upon the economy in a very simple form by showing a chart of the USD Index compared

Interbank overnight rates such as LIBOR determine the interest rate which big city banks charge each other for borrowing money. This is significant because we can see interbank lending rates as a means

One of my favourite quotes is this: "The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient. " – Warren Buffett This is true for all markets. Patience is always

As someone who runs a real-life brick n mortar business based in what is essentially a discretionary category of consumer spending, then consumer confidence means a lot to me. As such I spend a lot of

I follow bitcoin not because I am a bitleaver who thinks it's amazing (I don't - there are better cryptocurrencies out there) but because unfortunately lots of the crypto market is still wedded to the

A common complaint I hear on facebook regarding the crypto rout is... "WHO'S DUMPING??!". The actual truth of the matter is... "Nobody that's who". Lets get into this. Here is the global

The latest big "thing" in investing is Apple's record setting 1trillion market cap which their stock recently surpassed. This makes for very good press pieces but I'm not impressed and neither

Johnson + Johnson have been under a lot of fire recently due to Asbestos in old company talcum powder products. This caught my attention and I decided to look at their stock prices. The peak highlighted

In short I am waiting for an entry on EUR/USD to go short on it. I believe we have head-and-shoulders forming here and if you check the chart above, you will see we are currently awaiting formation of

A contact on Facebook recently posted me a graph of bitcoin. His theory being that Bitcoin is ultimately coming to the end of a long consolidation as per the Wyckoff theory of market trends. For those

One of my favourite quotes (among many others) is this "Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. " Helen Keller Because