People dont seem to bounce all that well

Humans were built to move – we did not evolve to sit on our arses. As a consequence we are not very good at sitting.

Quick pop quiz – I came across this whilst having brekky this morning. This to me looks like they have just photographed a toy boat in a pond.  

For some reason these drop into an email account I keep for getting rubbish. These are the guys who have the tendency to do odd things such as measure the current P/E of the S&P500 in turnips and then try and make some prognostication about the number of turnips now versus 16,000 years ago. I…

Thought I would drop this in before the close – should get the bulls a little excited.

Whilst having breakfast I came across this blurb from an individual who is wanting to move from the sell side of the industry to the advisory/money management. These are his rules for investing – Industries are under-analyzed, relative to the market on the whole, and relative to individual companies. Spend time trying to find good…

Someone bounced me the following quote from a newsletter by Richard Russell who is regarded in the US as somewhat of a doyen of predictive technical analysis. The worst kind of market is a market that goes down on good news. As I write, optimism is in the air, and the Dow is down 95…

The Mayans just might be onto something – I have seen the coming apocalypse.

Dilbert on active portfolio management

The Ultimate Tazer Ball league – where players use 300,000-volt Tasers as part of the game – is coming to Toronto. Think of it as a combination of football, rugby and stinging electric currents zapping you at every turn. Canada’s contribution, the Toronto Terror, is now beginning to form its six-person roster.

An interesting year so far with all the usual suspects popping up. The one that interests me is Lumber since it can be viewed as a leading indicator in terms of economic recovery if you are into that sort of thing. You can see from the chart below that lumber collapsed before the US housing…