Author: Michael Kahn

There was a lot more John Kosar gave me today that could not be squeezed into a single column. For starters, the Univ of Mich survey has spiked to the upper limits of its range to suggest people are expecting serious inflation...

I made an observation this morning that we usually can make in bear markets. Today, the government (over)stepped in with sweeping reforms and more meddling, er, regulation to stabilize the financial markets. Nothing today is...

I often preach about success from failure meaning that the best technical signals are often failed technical signals. In other words, if the market is in a trading range, which it is, then a failure to trade all the way to the...

Just some stuff heard on the ‘net.br /br /Everybody on the other side of the boat…br /(Len Smith, commenting that everyone went from bear to bull in a flash)br /br /Regarding “A recession is IMPOSSIBLE”...

I could have drawn this chart myself but someone beat me to it (Michael Swanson posted on Safehaven.com). Check out what happened to T-bills.br /br /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e)...

So, the stock market has failed to deliver on its supposed bottom and the Fed is just about out of blanks, er, ammunition to shoot down the gremlins of the credit crisis. Bonds yield nothing. Commodities cracked. Real estate is...

These Futuresource.com charts came in smaller than I had hoped but you can still see the bearish RSI divergence in silver with bearish candle at resistance plus the shooting star in gold.br /br /a onblur=”try...

This graphic was posted to a chat room this morning by veteran trader Larry Williams. I do not know if it is attributable to anyone before him but hey, it’s just some macabre web humor.br /br /a onblur=”try...

Blame the bear – Bear Stearns, that is. I would like to know how firms making so much money in the good times can fall so far from grace in the bad. Personally, I might sock away a few pennies in an insurance type of...

So the Fed does a liquidity dump to bail out knucklehead bankers and chowderhead home buyers and Wall Street rejoices. Or was that just revenge for the now defunct governor of NY’s past as a CEO killer?br /br /Anyway, the...