June 15, 2016 by Dan • Commentary

I have been staring at stock charts every day for nearly 20 years. The following chart of the S&P 500 (SPX) over the last two years quite simply confounds me: When I consider the potential …

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February 26, 2016 by Dan • Commentary

For the better part of the last 6 months, investors have been fairly clueless as to where to park cash with the prospects of a reasonable risk adjusted return. The global volatility in credit, currencies, commodities …

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April 26, 2013 by Enis • Commentary

One of the better analysts of historical price action is Ukarlewitz at the Fat Pitch Blog.  Yesterday he tweeted an interesting chart comparing developed market economic surprises vs. the relative performance of U.S. stocks to U.S. …

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August 4, 2011 by CC • Commentary

I was watching curiously the past couple of days as the market’s bloodbath was seemingly being ignored in the VIX. Sure it was higher but not nearly what it should have been considering the ongoing …

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