Author: Michael Kahn

File this under irony – My kid needs a medical test. Insurance company has not approved it yet. I cannot show up at the doctor’s office with cash in hand to get the test because my insurance company has not yet...

I hope the long weekend went well for everyone. Here are a few snippets on hedge funds. You can piece together the story.From businessinsider.com: Recent and major departures from the hedge fund kingdom – Stanley...

Either data services are FUBAR in terms of how they report data and time or a lot of people knew what the jobs report would say just before it came out. You make the...

The latest AAII sentiment survey is out and my have AAII members changed their tune! To quote the mailing: “Bullish sentiment of individual investors rose 10.1 percentage points to 30.8% in the latest AAII Sentiment...

You never give me your money You only give me your funny paper and in the middle of negotiations you break down – The Beatles (hat tip Josh Schneck) This is a picture of the dollar index. Looks like a bear flag to me. Is...

That’s life, that’s what all the people say. You’re riding high in April, Shot down in May – Frank Sinatra (That’s Life) How did he know?  Market peaks in May, Flash crash in May. (hat tip...

The Cisco Kid was a friend of mine He drink whiskey, Poncho drink the wine – War (1972) Analysts looking for tech to save the day are drinking kool-aid, not whiskey.This chart shows Cisco Systems breaking down below...

In today’s column, I followed up on retailers and how their stocks react poorly to good earnings. Expectations were set way too high and needed to be re-focused. That means lower prices. One stock I cut out before editing...

Can I be any more obvious? – Avril Lavigne (Sk8tr Boi)

I was just flipping through some charts, not looking for anything in particular, and saw trucking stock Ryder (R). Transports are basically net unchanged for the past two days and Ryder is consolidating just under a broken...