Friday massive, back up the truck

Interesting day and week really in the markets, bear rally continues in main indices. I am reviewing short opps in internet stock Amazon and long commodities – the softs. On the commodities first – set the background – oil chart since 2000. Well, to me, it looks like a spike which could retrace to $80 [...]

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Supercharged silver bull

I had a look around to see if there was a leveraged silver ETC today – and found the ETFS securities 2x silver product. Great time to enter a longer term position here and can be done with pension money too – for those with a longer term time horizon – remember to sell at [...]

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Silver, Cotton, Sugar and Coffee

These commodities have two things in common, which are great for traders, they are price inelastic – per your economics 101 – demand will not change in line with supply shortages leading to price spike potential. The second is that they are in the lower end of their 30-40 year trading ranges.  So, looks like [...]

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Sunday Big Picture review Jan 2008

This is my first Sunday Big Picture review and I want to focus on the general state of the markets as we come to the end of a traumatic (for some) first month of 2008. One of my favourite sites for stock market commentary is Zealllc.com as the chap who writes there (Adam Hamilton) lives [...]

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