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Market Anthropology: Secular Tides

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 Secular Tides Below are two identical charts that I have been following this year, contrasting the US dollar index and the large cap/small cap ratio as expressed by the SPX:RUT. For purposes of expression, the first…

Market Anthropology: Salty Dogs Surf Silver

Wednesday, February 19, 2014 Salty Dogs Surf Silver Besides spawning a dangerously misleading quasi-analytic academy of bubble prognosticators and agents of misfortune, the capital-interupted flows from the financial crisis itself wrinkled and deformed the very crust of our financial lithosphere – causing…

Market Anthropology: Risk/Reward

Wednesday, November 14, 2012 Risk/Reward As expected, weakness has continued in the equity markets this week. However, based on the NDX/SPX topping comparative that I have been highlighting over the past few weeks, the downside exhaustion-proportional equivalent of the pattern…

Market Anthropology: A Rising Tide…

Wednesday, July 6, 2011 A Rising Tide… A rising tide lifts all boats – is certainly the aphorism of choice looking at the series of correlation studies from the market-data aficionado David Stendahl. David’s most recent data nugget presents various asset…

Market Anthropology: Relative Exuberance

Friday, April 15, 2011 Relative Exuberance In case you were wondering… I went the full monty at silver today, courtesy of ZSL.  4/19 Update:

 To catch what will likely be a violent reversal, drawdown on this kind of leveraged trading vehicle…