Author: Michael Kahn

Market related at the end.Just wanted to acknowledge an often unsung hero – the truck driver. It is not often that I as a driver patiently wait – on a busy road when I am in a hurry – for the vehicle in front...

No, I did not intend to bash technical analysis. I was bashing analysts in general but it did not come through that way on edit.Perhaps I was just getting down on technicians who were like John Kerry in Dubya’s TV ads in...

Disappoints? As one news report said, “they knocked the cover off the ball.” They even beat the so-called “influential analyst” target earnings number by a lot and she was a huge number over consensus....

OK, a literature student I was not but Dickens’ immortal words ring true for banks (yeah, I know, the title was from Steinbeck).”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was...

With apologies to readers of Swedish heritage.Here is something that hit the chat rooms today. Note the date of this supposed news story (July 2) where Sweden cut its short-term rate to negative 0.25%.MarketWatch, Bloomberg and...

Here are what the pundits have been talking about over the past few weeks.Coppock Curve – Fired a long-term buy at the end of May. Still in effect. However, it does not take into account any draw downs that are very...

Apologies for not covering the Nasdaq but they suggested I cut my word count. Besides, the Nasdaq does not have a head-and-shoulders pattern anyway.Here is a paragraph I wrote for the piece but did not include in the version I...

I have to tread lightly here as I do not want to give anything away before Wednesday’s Barron’s Online column comes out. But here are a few of the topics I am going to cover:The head-and-shoulders EVERYONE sees in...

OK, I borrowed Ford slogan of old – quality is job-one. How fitting to use a car company boast in these times.This is a snapshot from MarketWatch. What I like is how much “they” overestimated the improvement in...

The title of this blog post was the pre-edited title for today’s column. Considering I think that stocks will not turn to gold it is a much better capture of my thinking. Perhaps it was just not snappy enough as a headline...