Author: Michael Kahn

Well, not yet. Buy and hold was debunked as a viable investment strategy after the 2000 peak. Technical analysts have been touting its demise and, to quote the Market Technicians Association, the dawn of a new age for technical...

In today’s column, I took a look at commodities in general and saw one undeniable fact in the charts – the long-term bull market in commodities was ended, or shall I say obliterated, in October 2008.I have been...

Monday’s Barron’s Online column must have hit a nerve around the blogosphere as plenty of folks quoted it with a link back over the past two days. Thank you one and all. The idea of slow motion capitulation, or as...

Just a few observations from one of the chat rooms I follow.Bill Volker posted this put/call chart and noted that for a new low in a raging bear market, nobody seems to be buying puts. I added the 10-day average.Of course, a...

Today’s column on Barron’s Online is about sentiment but not the traditional kind using the VIX, put/call ratios and the like. In keeping with the theme of “technical tools are not working as we expect”...

I warned about Facebook and putting too much info online. Here is an item from the local newspaper: Oceanside teen sues Facebook Online taunting spilled into bullying at school.I have some business colleagues that wanted to...

Long before stocks and bonds were a significant part of the individual’s portfolio, returns were in single digits and a big day on the Dow was 40 points in either direction. And I am not talking about the 1940s. I remember...

OK dinosaurs, put on your thinking tail spikes. Who knows what the title of this post means? Does the word “city” give it away?This was my own personal introduction to the white dwarf star that is now Citigroup....

I don’t know. Usually, my editor comes up with much better headlines than I do but today I liked mine better. Perhaps his non-technical analysis mind did not get the reference. C’est la vie (from a non-French...

I joked Sunday during my presentation at the Traders Expo that I was not wearing a suit because Wall Street was dead so there was no need. That got a chuckle from the crowd but when you think about it, all the majors are either...