Gold Fever: a Bubble? Gold has rarely been out of the headlines recently. New highs, endless commentary, breathless explanations. Gold is up. Silver is up. Every move is waved away with the same two words:
Panic First, Think Later Another week where panic ran well ahead of thinking. Some international headlines about tariffs and Greenland was enough to send everyone fleeing for the exits. So, on Tuesday the market slumped,
Fright of the Condor Some traders did NOT have a good Christmas – specifically the followers of Captain Condor. There were over a thousand of them, each paying $5,500 annually to access his trades. Collectively,
Dumb Money to Market Force. Up until recently, individual traders were overlooked in the stock market. What mattered were the professionals – the big banks, money managers and institutions – all with very deep pockets
2026 Predictions It’s a new year, and the pundits are out in force – predicting and pontificating. Before we listen to them let’s see how good they were with their predictions last year! Your browser
Extended Trading Hours It has puzzled me for many years why stock exchanges hung onto such restricted trading hours – just 6.5 hours on weekdays – a structure that dates from a pre-computer, pre-globalization era.
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