The AI Hype Cycle
Where is AI on the Hype Cycle? Many of you will know about the Hype Cycle, introduced by Gartner in 1995. It is a graphical representation of the maturity and adoption of technology. When I used to run IT departments it was a thing, and all new technologies were placed on it. You didn’t want […]
Stock Charts & News
Stock Charts, Market Data & News I had been mulling creating a ‘one stop shop’ for the ITM strategies, turning this website into the place with everything you need to do them. I decided it was a good idea, so I thought: just do it, head down, ignore everything else. So, I did it. Here […]
The Magnificent Seven
Who are the Magnificent Seven? You’ve probably heard the expression. They are a group of companies that collectively make up more than one quarter of the S&P 500, and over half of the Nasdaq 100. They are: Microsoft (MSFT): $2.965 trillion Apple (AAPL): $2.623 trillion NVIDIA (NVDA): $2.065 trillion […]
Losing Streak
6 Down Days! Last week was truly awful. We’ve now had 6 down days in a row, which got me wondering – how often does this happen? What (if anything) does it mean? So I downloaded SPY data yet again from Yahoo Finance (I think I must be their most frequent customer!) and got to […]
Gold Bulls
Gold Bulls. Gold has had a bit of a bull run recently. Quite a vertical run, in fact. Which is quite a change from where it has been languishing for the last year. Looking back over the last 10 years, we can see that it has long periods of going sideways interspersed with short periods […]
Market Peaks
Market Peaks. Naturally, we all want to get out at the top of the market peak, but as we know, they don’t ring a bell at the top. Or the bottom for that matter. We discussed Prospect Theory a couple of weeks ago, noting that people become fearful when they are in a winning position […]
