"May you live in interesting times" What to do.....what to do.....when the world is turned topsy-turvy by a pandemic and an oil price war. First of all, stay safe. Second, help where you can. Third, make lemonade from lemons, I suppose, and enjoy the low price of gasoline. Never mind that the car is sitting …
Eye of the Hurricane
If you have the attention span of a gnat, don't bother. This is a long post. That's where we are right now. The US markets have dropped 30% or so. VIX is dropping from the eye-popping 80s to the mid-sixties. Things are calming down, right? Maybe so, but don't let your guard down. We are …
Ideas for March 15, 2020
I lied in my March 14 2020 post. There aren't zillions of short candidates. Maybe a few, but not zillions. Hence this post to clear things up. Why aren't there a lot of short candidates? Well, it's simple. The patterns were there, but they triggered and hit targets very quickly, basically within the same weekly …
Ideas for March 14, 2020
Well. I took a few weeks vacation, and the market went to the house of Hades in a handbasket and the COVID19 issue developed into a world pandemic. How quickly the world can change these days. What is the market going to do now? I don't hesitate one second to say I haven't the faintest …
A Life Lesson in Investing
Morris was standing in front of me in the building cafeteria line. He was old and slow. He wore a shiny dark track suit and white sneakers and a funny beret. It took him a long time to decide on his order. He counted out the exact change to the cashier, slowly of course. I …
The Chart Analyst 