George Ure

I guess today’s Housing report matters, to the degree you can drive by looking in the rearview mirror.  We’d mentioned before that it seems like a slow topping process was ongoing as net-to-seller due to higher interest rates was coming home to land on the mini-bubble: S&P CORELOGIC CASE-SHILLER INDEX DECLINES MODERATED IN FEBRUARY YEAR-OVER-YEAR … Read More

Posted earlier than normal due to Housing update due (a Bulldog edition) Technical Tuesday around here is usually the “after action” analysis of my latest day trading frenzy.  To save the asking, yes, I made some lunch money on that short position taken near the close Friday. Was it George Peppard, “the Colonel” (a/k/a Hannibal … Read More

Money Monday, and we will see in coming hours if my going short into the close of stocks Friday will be a hit or a miss.  Small wager only – no point bleeding out before The End. Likely the most interesting part of this morning’s column is towards the end.  In the Around the Ranch (ATR) … Read More

For a little while, looks like: Active Warning: Yes NOAA Scale: G4 – Severe NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation Potential Impacts: Area of impact primarily poleward of 45 degrees Geomagnetic Latitude. Induced Currents – Possible widespread voltage control problems and some protective systems may mistakenly trip out key assets from … Read More

Since I lived full-time on my 40-foot offshore capable sailboat for nearly a dozen years up and down the West Coast, I should begin with a sailing story. When I bought the boat (following a legendary expensive divorce), it was a dandy cross between Peter Pan’s adventures and living in Superman’s “Fortress of Solitude.” Just like … Read More

Although stock futures (early) showed the S&P down 10 and the Dow down 50-ish, we published our expectations Thursday morning and they really haven’t changed. “What we might see – and some of this has to do with Options mechanics – might be a decline today and a rally Friday.  Our Peoplenomics subscribers will see the set-up … Read More

Troubling Thursday begins with a mandatory market check.  Which, in the early Futures pricing today was about what you’d expect for Index Options Day. Dow futures were pointing down some 130-points in the early going. Upon inspection of our Aggregate Index, we see how troubled markets are lining up for a possible downside surprise next … Read More

This being Technical Tuesday, I want to focus a little attention on A.I. because “we small humans” have gotten a lot of past, dangerous, scary technology mostly wrong. Two examples are radio’s invention and atomic physics.  Chosen because they demonstrate what happens when a technology is “done right – sort of – and when it’s done dead … Read More

Money Monday offers a choice of economic wars to focus on.  We’ll toss out the easy ones first. Commie-fornia – the People’s Republik as it’s been called – is now featuring a new quite disgusting pander to Mob Rule.  (It’s what communist insurgencies do, after all.) See, at the heart of anti-American socialist engineering is … Read More

Although I got the major PITA project I’ve been putting off partly done Saturday, the real satisfaction came from wiring up the BBQ outlet this week. However, it was a fine study in how “little projects” can turn into Big ones on the clock. The idea sounded simple enough.  We had run an extension cord from … Read More