With no major financial stories to parrot, (Dow futures +236) we find ourselves, once again, stuck in “The Investor’s Dilemma.” Which happens when we have “conflicting inputs” for investment decisions. You see, just as the (bicameral) brain often operates like a deadlocked House vs. Senate, and just as duality appears in poetic as compared with … Read More
Before the Futures began changing this morning, the overnight view of our Aggregate Index looked like this: We will update you on how the wave count goes in a second. First, though, a personal word about trading. Pilots, Instruments, Markets Someone is bound to ask “How’d you do in the drop Wednesday, Ure?” In the … Read More
Not enough on your plate to worry you? Time to become a “Seniorpreneur!” Today we take up some very uncomfortable forward-thinking about what may lie ahead for America’s aging grays. (Two of which we is.) Beyond just lining-out the problem, though, we have some ideas for how to cope with hard times that you can … Read More
4:30 AM and Ure is “back in the chair” for another round of play. “Money for Nothing” cranked. Coffee hot and strong, sunrise a couple of hours ahead. There are differences between my office and other Casinos, of course. For one, time is of the essence here. Clocks all over: German, British, and American market times … Read More
While Bitcoin looks to sucker-in more of the “buy the dips” crowd, and prices early remained planted around $30,000, we are instead waiting for Markets to wake up to the no growth model and reprice accordingly. But the BIG story is how the Biden administration continues to kill America’s future. It is almost as though … Read More
8:55 AM/ 14:55 UTC just worked YB9GDP on 14.021 CW. That’s Munawiril down in Lomok Timur, Indonesia. The reason I mention this (for preppers) is to demonstrate a couple of things: First, his code speed (hand key) is 16 words per minute. Easy copy once you lock on to his “fist.” But the second point, … Read More
Once you know that there is essentially no difference between what the social conventions call “WORK” and what some of us call “PLAY”, then term “workstation” becomes interchangeable with “playstation.” [Sony lawyers notwithstanding, but our use is in the generic sense, not the product anchored wordmark (2 cap letters), and there is plenty of prior art. … Read More
Another look over my shoulder as we use “alternative means” in our quest to beat markets.” And as you can tell from the title, this experiment is in progress until Monday. See, when markets are making big, powerful moves, you don’t want to get in the way of them. And since the Fed has made … Read More
Yes. Global Systemic Collapse is coming into view. We’ve all sort-of known that the world has been living on borrowed time. But, like that Library book you kept forgetting to return, we have skipped the actual doing something about it. “Such a small daily fine, after all.” So, we have cheated, cajoled, polarized, and differentiated to the … Read More
Yeah – we’ll get to the Producer Prices in a minute. But first a general survey of how well things are not going for America right now. Phony Money and Weather Drive We might as well start with the overnights elsewhere and the future’s pricing here because – as you know – the whole premise … Read More
The companion to the mini ebook “A Life of Gods” on time and task management is unveiled this morning. This one deals with workstations and workflows. My thinking is that once something shows up as a task, we need the “power tools” to dispatch it to the “done list.” A good bit of theory is … Read More
Want to know Ure’s System? What did I tell you Monday? You were paying attention, right? “No major economic news (other than opening bummer!). Which, if we get lucky will not turn until tomorrow. It’s the “How Bad Today?” part that’s hard to gauge. Which is why we’re not in the Casino.” But you know … Read More
Disinflation is being screamed in commodity prices this morning. Could the Fed Chair be right? Transitory? Lots to cover to sort this out. If you feel like (pardon this) your economic nuts are in a vise? The explanation takes a minute but it’s worth your while. We do appear to be Replaying 1929 (the premise of … Read More