Author: Michael Kahn

From a chat room, posted by Clayton Seitz:At as Mike Epstein would suggest, this market is starting to feel like a Filipino ferry with an awful lot of folks on one side of the boat.”OK, it is a little insensitive to actual...

I needed to sit down yesterday and probably needed a good single malt scotch. Good thing it was still 10 am and even I have standards.I am going to withhold the names but rest assured I am not claiming any credit here.Gold...

I was rummaging through my document archives and found some notes I took on Lester Thurow’s “The Future of Capitalism” waaaaay back in 1998. Given the unfortunate whispers of the decline of the United States as...

Perhaps the CEOs of JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America read this blog and were very nervous. Naaaahhhh. But it is a nice coincidence that the news of a revised fee structure came out this week. Debit card fees were the exact...

I was interviewed today for the Market Technicians Association (MTA) podcast series. It is a general interview from getting into the TA business, how my day goes and what I think about the stock market. Subscribers and blog...

Now that I put the blog back to its regular color it may be hard to see the poll numbers on the right side of this page. Here they are in a nutshell:Where will the S&P 500 top out in the next three months? Out of 123...

JPMorganChaseWamuBankOneBearStearns pulled some crap on me this week and although this megacorp is one of the few financial companies still raking it in they make a good example of how a huge corporation fails to serve its...

I changed the background color for the blog so everyone can see the poll results better. Apparently, blogger does not give as much color control as we need and for some reason puts the poll results in white color. Why on...

There are two polls to the right. The first asks how high the market is going before correcting within the next three months. The second asks how bad the correction will be, again assuming it happens within the next three...

This is an excerpt from Monday’s Quick Takes Pro newsletter.We’ve been thinking a lot about market analysis over the past few weeks. Why has what we’ve had great success using stopped working?Yes, we know...