What Bitcoin the ETF!!!!! We are hearing that the Winklevoss twins have filed with the SEC for the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust. In case you have forgotten, the Winklevoss twins enjoyed fame regarding their legal tangle with Mark Zuckerberg regarding Facebook. Tulips anyone? N’uff said! Leading up to the financial crisis of Lehman Bros….cattle cost an […]
We need to reflect this week on all that was learned during 2013. What did we learn? We learned that government printing presses do eventually affect the upward trajectory of the stock markets, that sell or buy the news works (decisions once made will have an upward bias because it is now a measurable event….known) […]
Okay so how many of you knew that once the S&P 500 approached 1800 that it would take it out? We would be willing to guess that the majority of our readers were of that belief. Any market watcher, worth listening to, would have come to that conclusion. Now that the mission is completed, […]
The problem seen with being correct on the markets is that if you are correct in a vacuum, nobody ever knows that you were correct, thus is the fate of many newsletter writers. Many are not published or circulated widely enough to get the proper recognition. The actual point is that it is unimportant that […]
The US Dollar Index has been out of control, spending its weekly pay check at Bloomingdales, the jewelers and auctions in a fit of absolute manic elation, and on the other hand, and locking itself in a dark room full of despair, confined to an unproductive self-loathing stupor. You guessed it; the US Dollar Index […]
The Option Queen Letter by the Option Royals It really gets scary when you try to sell and ETF and discover that you can’t. It is almost as scary as breaking the buck on the money market funds. This past week, there were two instances where redemptions were halted on ETFs, State Street halted redemptions […]
The airs is full of talk of sequestration and the resulting furloughs of air traffic controllers. Naturally this mess was quickly cleaned up when our elected officials needed to avail themselves of the flights. Now there is more to this than meets the eye, of course. How much of the delay was due to sequestration […]
The market appears to be sending us an observable signal of a possible top. This week for the first time since the Lehman failure, we are hearing from people we know that they are quitting their jobs to trade. Although, it appears that we are near or approaching an interim top we are waiting for […]
The Option Queen Letter by the Option Royals We are entering the last week of the first quarter of the 2013 year and the last week of the month. These quarterly reports lead portfolio managers on a quest to tweak their portfolios to represent their public performance better. These adjustments to portfolios are seen monthly […]
