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Author: Michael Kahn

Just Another Manic Market

Did you ever see the market go this way and that?Go this way and that way,And that way and this way – a children’s song (sort of), possibly Scottish or, if you are a 1970s psuedo-punk like me: Well we can’t...

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Buy the rumor, sell the news

Buy cheap, sell dear. Or, buy on the rumor that good stuff is going to happen and sell when it does, or does not come true. That seems to be what happened Thursday in the stock market. Here is your headline: U.S. stocks lost...

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Song Lyric for the Week

I was writing about how the market is in a stall right now as it awaits Europe’s decision or lack thereof. This lyric popped into my head. Perhaps this is the market singing to MerKozy and friends. I’m leavin’...

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Relating Charts to Market Analysis

Here is another article I wrote for Scottrade way back when (Jan 2010). Again, I figure the statute of limitations has run out for an article I wrote for free so here it is – for novices.To many investors, technical...

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D-Day for Europe

Supposedly December 9 is decision day for Europe as they meet in a summit (ooh, it must be important – will they serve beer?) that could determine if they can rescue themselves. Woudn’t it be cool if they met in...

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Ghost in the Machine

From Wikipedia: The “ghost in the machine” is the British philosopher Gilbert Ryle’s description of Ren Descartes’ mind-body dualism. The phrase was introduced in Ryle’s book The Concept of Mind...

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Ratio Ratio

I must be going crazy penned into my office for days writing story after story while it is 60 degrees and gorgeous outside here in the Northeast (yes, I saw the rain this morning). The song Radio Radio by Elvis Costello comes to...

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Indicator Whackadoo

Twas the day after Thanksgiving break and all through the house, Everyone was buying stocks……everyone. A little stunted poetry by yours truly. The stock market did one of its patented gap up go nowhere after that...

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Another ratio

If you’ve been following me at all you know I look at a few ratios just like your favorite CFA. Only my ratios come from the market and not someone’s subjectively inputted spreadsheet. Does anyone really know what...

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LIBOR still rising

The 3-month London Interbank Offered Rate, a benchmark for global interest rates, is still rising and almost every single day. While still a far cry from its 2008 financial crisis highs literally 10 times higher, this is still...

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