Some Sanity Regarding the Housing Market Trader Scott’s Market Blog January 21, 2017 Click to sign up for Trader Scott’s Free Market Updates or e-mail [email protected] Donald Trump hit the ground running after his Inauguration on Friday,when two hours into his Administration he suspendeda planby Barack Obama to slash premium…
“Oil to Fall to the Teens”/Commodities Trader Scott’s Market Blog January 21, 2017 Click to sign up for Trader Scott’s Free Market Updates or e-mail [email protected] There’s a Marketwatch story interviewing the manager of a $3.6 billion T. Rowe Price mutual fund who believes oil is still in a bear market. As…
Stock Market/Inaugurations and Buying Opportunties Trader Scott’s Market Blog January 20, 2017 Click to sign up for Trader Scott’s Free Market Updates or e-mail [email protected] Friday’s Inauguration for Donald Trump will hopefully go smoothly, but there is something else to watch in regards to markets. And that is a high probability…
US$ Trader Scott’s Market Blog January 8, 2017 Click to sign up for Trader Scott’s Free Market Updates or e-mail [email protected] We are suddenly seeing stories galore about the end of the bull market in the US$, “because” of the comments last night from Donald Trump. The WSJ on Monday night ran…
Gold/Different Buy Points In a Market Bottom Revisited Trader Scott’s Market Blog January 16, 2017 Click to sign up for Trader Scott’s Free Market Updates or e-mail [email protected] The previouspostabout the different points to buy in a major market bottom (this example is in and around the 1999 gold bottom),…
Bonds/Gold/Stocks/Commodities/US$ Trader Scott’s Market Blog January 15, 2017 Click to sign up for Trader Scott’s Free Market Updates or e-mail [email protected] There have been several posts recently about the extreme bearishness in the US Treasury market. I bought bondson December 1stas a trade, partly because of the bearishness, along with…
” Climate Change ” / Everyone is on One Side of the Boat Trader Scott’s Market Blog January 15, 2017 Click to sign up for Trader Scott’s Free Market Updates or e-mail [email protected] It has become religion to believe in global warming, excuse me climate change. In fact, apparently…
Opportunities in Solar Energy Trader Scott’s Market Blog January 13, 2017 Click to sign up for Trader Scott’s Free Market Updates or e-mail [email protected] Yesterday morning, I left a comment at the post about my keen interest in the solar energy stocks. They were totally beaten down after the Trump…
Fed Rate Increases/Bonds/Gold Trader Scott’s Market Blog January 13, 2017 Click to sign up for Trader Scott’s Free Market Updates or e-mail [email protected] As the folks who actually understand markets (this does not include PHD economists) know, the Fed follows it does not lead. There are pundits, etc. who are paid/waste…
Leveraged ETFs/GDX vs. NUGT Trader Scott’s Market Blog January 10, 2017 Click to sign up for Trader Scott’s Free Market Updates or e-mail [email protected] From this post a few days ago there were several comments – biotechs, gold resistance area, etc. One of them was a general answer…
Sentiment/Gold/Bonds Trader Scott’s Market Blog January 10, 2017 Click to sign up for Trader Scott’s Free Market Updates or e-mail [email protected] The bond market is the biggest market in the world, so it will always have very large influences on all other markets, but the correlations change…
Big Picture Gold Trader Scott’s Market Blog January 8, 2017 It’s good over the weekend, while reviewing and planning, to look at the big picture in markets. For gold, my belief remains it’s ina big area of accumulation/cyclical upleg which began in December 2015. The accumulation really kicked in around the April-July of 2013 volatility…
Markets/Gold/Bonds Trader Scott’s Market Blog January 5, 2017 Click to sign up for Trader Scott’s Free Market Updates or e-mail [email protected] There has been a tremendous amount of unanimity in markets since the Trump election. We’ve had the Trump bull market in stocks (which bottomed in March 2009), the Trump…
More Brilliance from Larry Summers Trader Scott’s Market Blog January 5, 2017 Click to sign up for Trader Scott’s Free Market Updates or e-mail [email protected] The brilliant PHD economist Lawrence Henry “Larry” Summers has come out with a scathing criticism of Donald Trump’s economic policy: “The Navarro-Ross paper is…
Agriculture/Gold Trader Scott’s Market Blog January 4, 2017 Click to sign up for Trader Scott’s Free Market Updates or e-mail [email protected] The previous post about 2016 asset performance showed how wheat was once again a poor performer. Wheat is, or is one of, the biggest componentsof agricultural market indexes/ETFs,…
Yield Curve/Markets Trader Scott’s Market Blog January 4, 2017 Click to sign up for Trader Scott’s Free Market Updates or e-mail [email protected] The LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate), which is about as honest of a system as the Gold Fix, just went above 1% for the first time since May…
Intraday Markets Day 1 Trader Scott’s Market Blog January 3, 2017 Click to sign up for Trader Scott’s Free Market Updates or e-mail [email protected] So there we go, first trading day and alot of volatility right off of the bat. Some markets going to new highs and having big selloffs, others going to…
Gold vs. US$/1999-2001 Trader Scott’s Market Blog January 2, 2017 Click to sign up for Trader Scott’s Free Market Updates or e-mail [email protected] We hear a lot of stories about the relationship between the US$ and gold. I have tried to debunk some of them. There is certainly a relationship…
2016 Best and Worst Assets Trader Scott’s Market Blog January 2, 2017 Click to sign up for Trader Scott’s Free Market Updates or e-mail [email protected] The list of asset performance in US$ terms for 2016 can be seen here. These lists are always interesting for a couple of reasons, but…
Swings in Sentiment/Gold Trader Scott’s Market Blog January 1, 2017 Click to sign up for Trader Scott’s Free Market Updates or e-mail [email protected] In 2016, the HUI gold index was one of the best performing assets – up 62%. Which is odd considering the amount of…