Third Friday of each month the financial showdown called Options Expiration takes place. These come in several flavors, the savoriest of which are Equities and Index. Essentially Index options time-out at the Thursday close and stocks (Equities) Friday. Seems simple enough but peeling it back to a reasonable set of expectations is an “Onion Project” … Read More
We have had a dandy past month, or so, working sitting-down, inside a nice, air-conditioned office/workspace, fixing up old electronics. But, with the arrival of Fall, we’re readying for our very serious work mode again. It’s therefore appropriate to talk a little about safety and recycling. A Shop PPE Station Yes. It’s what son G2 … Read More
We needed a tool for test-fitting economic cycle lengths from the American Revolutionary War period. So, here it is. Not to be confused with the Cyclotron in physics. What? You don’t wake up with software/cycle questions in your head on Saturday morning? What are you, normal or something? Before we speak with Abby Normal, a … Read More
Having been up all night (the ER visit for Elaine, see ATR) it’s not too difficult to fire brain cells jacked up on tea… We are sad that our expectation of 50+ dead, laid out in the Thursday column on word of the Hawaii fires was right. Maui wildfires death toll at 55 as warning … Read More
Let’s do the CPI report first – everyone is interested in that: “The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 0.2 percent in July on a seasonally adjusted basis, the same increase as in June, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased … Read More
While we await data, some reflection on where the notion of “five steps to a market move” may be rooted. One of the most interesting notions in a while (lassoed from my office chair) is the one that says just as people handle Death Grieving with five stations, so too a deep psychological drama is … Read More
Recognize the Dates? The first date is easy. It’s when the stock market blowdown in October of 1929 was initially OVER. The market had peaked September 3, 1929. Like ours did in this longwave economic cycle on November 8, 2021. The markets fell – worried about future prospects – until finally staging a good rally. … Read More
Although the market has put on something of a rally for the early slog today, don’t hold your breath for the rest of the week. Things could turn brutal as early as Tuesday when economic reports begin to drop. The granddaddy of them all is the CPI Thursday. Despite the Siren song of Modern Monetary … Read More
The Radio Detective is in for the summer heat. We’re in the a/c bubble until after Labor Day, so why not? Last Sunday we introduced the newcomer to electronics. We elected to repair a simple vacuum tube voltmeter (VTVM) because there are no tuned circuits as you’d find in a radio. A couple of tubes, a … Read More
The market decline this week may have marked the end of Wave II. Which would be, in Elliott Wave counts and trend channels be the rally lasting about 192 days from 2022 lows. Which was preceded by Wave 1 down from November 8, 2021. Today, we consider our ChartPack and wonder how far down we … Read More
ho was it, just the other day, told me they’d finished Jared Diamond’s book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (20th Anniversary Edition). They remarked it seemed a bit wordy. “He said things that could have been 10-words or less, in a hundred…” Since I’m still carving out time to finish editing The … Read More
I’ve always found eating a couple of times a day a useful endeavor. And what helps buy the bread is dough and that means a job. So, yeah, jobs are changing around a bit. For example, in the JOLTS report this week, we learned that people who held onto their jobs got about a 6.2 … Read More
“You can’t take it with you” is a common saying as old age and Death approach late in Life. But, economics argues that might not be the case. What seems more likely is that there is something we take and we propose that special “something” is what becomes our “currency” in (or if) there’s an … Read More