Today’s Chart of the Day post on BusinessInsider.com is short, but holds an important and highly relevant historical lesson. The chart shows the silver content of the Roman money during the Roman Empire and a quote from Marcus Tillius Cicero from 55 BC which could have just as easily been stated by someone about our [...]

Perhaps no other market in the world elicits such emotion and passion than the world’s gold market. One only has to mention gold, and theories just come out of the woodwork in regards to conspiracy, market manipulation, and a host of other less than savory subjects.
So what’s a trader to do?
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We owe trillions of dollars, but Crude oil is at $86 a barrel, the DOW, S&P, and NASDAQ are making new highs almost everyday and unemployment is officially at 9.7%.
Everything is great! Happy days are here again… Right?
So is the DOW, S&P, and NASDAQ all going to keep going higher forever? Or are the teachings [...]

The Small caps are outperforming the large caps, suggesting the risk appettite is back. Mutual fund returns reveal that among the biggest winners in the January–March quarter have come from small-cap companies.
Small-caps benefit from a change in investor sentiment toward risk.  During bad economic times, investors predictably seek safety with large-cap stocks, which are most [...]

In the ongoing effort to provide information and perspective you won’t get anywhere else, today I’m going to serve up something I know the mainstream media hasn’t passed along (and definitely not in this format). We’re going to take a look at the earnings – historical and future – for the S&P 600 Small Cap [...]

In light of today’s ADP Employment Services report and the upcoming (Friday’s) payrolls report, not to mention the whole ‘jobless recovery’ debate stemming from painfully high unemployment levels, I think it’s time I started to do something no other site seems to be willing to do…. lay out the facts about the whole jobs scenario, [...]

We’ve danced around the issue a few times now, looking at a style and cap rotation chart on the 17th, and a sector rotation chart on the 10th.  We even discussed the ‘typical’ economic cycle back in October. Today, I’m going to put it all together and lay out a target portfolio for the beginning [...]

Though it’s a little off our normal beaten path, I think it’s a chart worth bringing up not because the chart itself is so interesting, but because of what the chart means. I’m talking about the chart that compares the Chinese Yuan to the U.S. Dollar. President Obama traveled to China last week in an [...]

I don’t kn0w how much of the bigger-picture stuff you guys follow. Sometimes economic data  like consumer credit levels seems so academic and so long-term, that the impact on our portfolio is impossible to really define. It all matters though, so we’re going to take a step back today and see if we can figure [...]

Regular readers will know by now that one of my core strategies for a strong alpha is using sector rotation…. the art of overweighting the leading industries, and underweighting the weaker ones. Though it’s easier said than done, it is possible, and the payoff is big.
To that end, I’ve decided to do some aggregating work [...]