A Thanksgiving Scotch Bet, Midnite Woo-Woo

Lawyers – especially tax attorneys, and super-especially ones with a CPA, do not enter into wagers about the market lightly.  Yet, we found ourselves oddly at issue with just such a consigliere over the weekend. “I expect the market will go up to the Labor Day weekend. And because the “turn date” isn’t till the first, or … Read More

ShopTalk Sunday: Ure’s Secret “Free Energy Research”

OK, maybe I’m a bit of an adventurer (offshore sailing, transcons in single engine, marrying an ex-Bunny, going to 930 detox, day-trading, writing…and high speed Morse guy…). But there is one thing about me you may not appreciate. I’ve been pondering Free Energy for 20-years now and actually have both a theory and a possible way … Read More

Honing Trading Skills – While Driving!

Since we can’t talk on cell phones and text, surely there must be something we can do that’s useful. Other than run over people who bother us and swearing at the top of our lungs… Quite by accident this week, I invented a new way to hone my personal trading skills while driving.  You see, … Read More

Option Friday Yawner, Power Thinking

Dog Days of Summer are here – and there’s even a spritz of rain in the local forecast for next week.  Not the weekend to be vacationing in Bermuda, though.  Need a hint? Since the whole frigging world is still expanding heat islands, here comes from government Brainiacs Nonstop heat: NOAA predicts 2024 may be … Read More

Markets Channel Higher – Hot, Thirsty and Woo-Notes

We have a new and exciting game for wide-ranging market day trading addicts like me.  OK, and one ot two others around here. Game is “What’s Yahoo Doing?”  Today, when we clicked on World Stock Indexes: prices, charts, percent change, volume, and news – Yahoo Finance the early morning futures prices were off in the … Read More

Morning Stacks and Light Bathing

OK, how much money is an extra day, week, month, or year worth?  With all our work on equal dollar indices and charts, the money isn’t worth much if it can’t buy you more time. So, we’re updating all of our research on anti-aging.  Including various supplement protocols and how they fare in actual science-based … Read More

PPI or CPI Turning Point: Tuesday or Thursday?

(See the Reader Advisory at the end of this column…) PPI (CPI Tomorrow) Producer Prices can be an indication of inflation in the pipeline. Here’s what’s just been announced by the government. (Pass me a grain of salt, would you?) The Producer Price Index for final demand increased 0.1 percent in July, seasonally adjusted, the … Read More

Dog Days of News – Baker’s Weeks Here

Um…humor the Old Man.  Give him a chance to roll out the rewrite of past lectures to you – ill0prepared – journalists who are trying to become famous.  The advice? “Don’t write stupid.” Some examples?  Sure. Let’s kick off with Trump falsely accuses Harris campaign of fabricated AI crowd photos.  The problem here is that … Read More

ShopTalk Sunday: We’re Hosed – Reel-ee

Here you thought the Pun Police would have the weekend off.  Nope. Our silly and small project of the weekend is assembly of a hose reel for up at the greenhouse end of the old place here in the woods.  In addition to 100 feet of that semi-fancy stainless hose that promises to be less … Read More

Movement in Models

It’s almost like a derivative function. But it’s designed as a pathway for the visually stimulated trader to make graphical observations over time that may improve trading.  I know, sounds a little “out there” but you might find otherwise when you see the case. There’s always the small dose of overnight news flow to inspect, … Read More

Carry Trade Collapse II?

Japan’s Nikkei 225 closed at 35,025.00 overnight. And we would not be surprised to see a bit of rally early this morning ahead of the weekend. But it’s what happens over the weekend that promises to be interesting. As you know, the Bank of Japan recently raised its interest rate.  Wasn’t a lot, but it was … Read More

Pac-Plate Dance, Running Out of Terror,? Wobbly Markts

The Pacific Plate is dancing again.  As many of our readers have been experiencing the “earthquake tireds” over the past week, or two, along comes a 7.1 quake in Japan to fill expectations: We have mentioned that recent activity off the West Coast, in particular off the coast of Washington/British Columbia has fall back into … Read More

Anti-Aging Book Preview

ere we are, a few thousand points lower, and what’s George got to show for it?  A new book? May sound odd, but I really love to write and getting into the “writing trance” is really good for me.  Stresses of life just fade away and a new story unfolds. There is already one book in … Read More