Why, looking at the early futures (Dow +200) you’d think that the skies were about to part and the rally into the close Friday might continue. ‘fraid not. But, the good news for old day traders is that the markets always “swing” so there’s usually a lunch money trade, or two, lying around. Still, it’s … Read More
No question, Price is the big factor in day trading. But when comes to Futuring, prepping, and staying the hell out of harm’s way, time signals in the market are where it’s at. Paradoxically, higher price prediction confidence rises, the lower time confidence drops. This incestuous relationship buggers up everything from military intelligence assessments to … Read More
Earth Time Piling Up: A large cluster of bad ju-ju is presenting its leading edge, just now. We see it across many of our “Seven Systems/Domains” model and it seems the next 60-days will be key to our future. Regardless of your partisan leanings (*they’re mainly a marketing division, anyway) the list of existential challenges … Read More
Hard to make sense of the world through press off ejaculate “pressers” which artfully pick and choose morality to suit agitprop goals. However, through the lenses of history and economics, a pattern begins to fill in. And so, as near as we can figure it, the Weimar (II) has been saved by Powell as the … Read More
Life Extension has a hard limit defined by personal income over time. Wife Elaine nailed it at breakfast Monday when she said “You can’t have one without the Other.” Life extension mainly costs money and investments usually cost time. Today, we’ll look at this balancing problem. And begin to draw an odd kind of outlook … Read More
There is a saying in technical analysis: “You can have Price, or you can have Time. But you can’t have them both, together.” I’ve been trading stocks since 1971, and even with more than half a century of investing, picking both time and price has been a vexation. Yes, we know the world will end in … Read More
The temps dropped in East Texas overnight. The leading edge of expressed “bitterness” in the coming weeks and even months. A period with more of an Angostura bent than most. Tomorrow night, we’ll kiss freezing out here, but that should be the last of Nature’s winter. Man’s winter will be measured in years. In Economic … Read More
The curse of George Ure is ALWAYS being too early. I booked a small loss Wednesday because of misjudging the start of what may be the beginning of the stock market shaking off the recent banking mania. Although, in fairness, Arnold’s “I’ll be back…” line is likely to be apropos. The future is always clear … Read More
I was wrong when I thought my book Packing to Die: Suitcase between your ears” was done. It turns out that upon reflection, there is still a chapter missing. Maybe even a missing “next book.” Which we will rectify today with an additional chapter that will be added to the book (on Kindle) in the … Read More
There’s too much going on to mess with flowery language today. We have a ton to cover before the next leg down. But we need, like the Air Force 2025 study did, circa 1996, to consider the long-term historical “Where’ve we been?” and “Where we are going?” kind of questions. Bank runs and Crypto’s role … Read More
Here’s what half a century of news reporting (and management geeking) teaches pretty clearly. When the first line of a press release begins: “To support American businesses and households, the Federal Reserve Board on Sunday announced it will make available additional funding to eligible depository institutions to help assure banks have the ability to meet … Read More
As you may have guessed, I got up super early Sunday because I forgot that this was “daylight time weekend.” After writing up the outdoor/yardwork and gardening adventures of Saturday, I decided it might be a good idea to “re-synch with the time change.” After a high protein breakfast (two egg tomato and cheese omelet … Read More
Someone stole an hour of our lives overnight. Running the clock forward with Daylight time which is so scammy… We don’t have a “measure, cut, join, finish” project to revel in today. Because the weather was perfect Saturday to take on the greenhouse rework. See, over the winter it grew and grew and turned into … Read More