A Potentially Decisive Options Week

This weekend, our Peoplenomics section is abbreviated (charts only) because of our “quicky” mini-vacation up to Oklahoma this weekend. We return to the regular format with Wednesday’s report. More for Subscribers       ||| SUBSCRIBE NOW!       |||   Subscriber Help Center

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Elaine and I are back at the ranch (Sunday afternoon). First order of business will be to update the Peoplenomics charts.  And then tomorrow morning we will talk about the trip and such… Not sure why our Sunday “Make” postings didn’t go, but that will hold for next week… Now, off to apply nose to … Read More

Friday Reality Check: Bitcoin Leading Market Drop?

I have been watching with rapt fascination (like in a horror flick) as the data comes in on Bitcoin Trading which we’ve been tracking using our trend-channels and Elliott wave counts.  Up until now, it had looked like the worst might be over, but this morning when we looked at how the coiners were doing, our … Read More

Coping: With the Old Age of “New Age”

I must report to you that a terrible crisis is upon the world.  What has long passed as New Age – with a heaping side of woo-woo – is being dashed on the rocks of Reality, grounded in Science. You see:  This week I have been deeply thinking and contemplating on the implications of the recent discovery … Read More

Job Cuts Tame; Market Spike Up?

This is one of those slow-motion roll-outs that happens every month:  The latest job numbers come in three ways:  ADP has a job creation report.  Out yesterday and up.  Meantime, Challenger job cuts is just out and reads like this: “The nation’s employers announced plans to cut 35,369 jobs in February, down 20 percent from the 44,653 cuts … Read More

Coping: Have Shoe Shines Disappeared?

A couple of times in the last month, I’ve been to town for things like the doctor’s office, the Tractor Supply store, and a “cheater burger” along the way; the usual stuff. On these trips, I started to notice people’s shoes.  They’ve changed – even here in the outback. When we moved here 2003’ish, this … Read More

An Overlooked Statistic

Starts our quest in the Focus section this morning. After a few bends and twists on the road tracking down the future, we are gob-smacked by a mutha-giant of a fact.The Information Age is over.  Right there in the data.  Which we’ll get to after coffee, headlines, charts and a discussion about my “shorts.”  Which … Read More

Bitcoin: Breaking Out to the Upside?

Sure looks that way to us as we tend to make investments based on the concept of “price channels.” When I take a snip from the www.bitcoincharts.com website and toss my trend-channel view at things, it looks like the way is opening for a rally to north of $35,000 – but this is not investment advice! … Read More

Coping: Intending Your Way to Wealth

So, want to be rich, do you? I get that from a lot of people.  But when I ask “What have you done about it?” very few people actually have a solid answer.  Mostly, I get a look like “What?” To my way of thinking, though, the odds of anyone being rich is a very doable … Read More

Decision Week for Markets

As I disclosed to our Peoplenomics.com subscribers this weekend, I took decent-sized (anything over $25,000 is “decent-sized” around here) leveraged short position in the market right at the close Friday. Nerves of steel, momentary trading-insanity, or a wild speculation?  This week, we should find out which. Our odd-ball approach to investing deserves a bit of explanation:  … Read More

Coping: Taxes & Getting Ready for “Daylight”

We have quite a number of things to go over this morning – some routine, some not. Sunday morning, Ure’s was up at 3:45 AM – unable to sleep – so I finished up our taxes and got them filed.  I also got the year’s “tax box” done. The year’s “tax box?” (Continues below)   … Read More

Making: “Workmanship” – Even in Assembly

Two stories in one today:  Mastering label removal and a discussion about workmanship.  You see, a lot of young people today didn’t have the advantage of an in-charge male figure in their household to pass on certain traits once lumped under the working-class term “workmanship.”  Not PC?  Oh, darn. Here, take this TS chit to … Read More

The Holy Grail of Economics

Today we dig deeply into the cause of periodic economic depressions (which could be closer than you’d think) and come up with a surprising result. While cycle theorists, such as Nikolas Kondratiev believed in the 48-64 year “long wave” we find evidence that there’s more driving periodicity than simple interest-rate fluctuations. First, however, headlines and … Read More