Charts Of Interest 20/08/15
A slightly different Charts of Interest this week as I felt that the recent events in markets deserved a little bit of commentary. All to often sudden moves in the market catch traders both tactically unaware and emotionally unprepared. There has been a single dominant theme in US markets since the first quarter of this year…
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Hedge Funds Crap At Commodity Trading As Well…..
Why is everyone surprised? When even Cargill Inc., the world’s largest grain trader, decides to liquidate its own hedge fund, that’s a sign that commodity speculators are in trouble. Hedge funds focused on raw materials lost money on average in the first half, the Newedge Commodity Trading Index shows. Diminishing investor demand spurred Cargill’s Black…
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Well…This Cant Be Good For The Gold Bugs
I have noted that over the past few months the ad’s extolling people to buy gold have disappeared from the radio and the best comment I have heard about gold lately is that its a pet rock. What does intrigue me though is that gold bugs seem to be the only people in the world…
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A Picture Paints A Thousand Words
This was attributed to Frederick R Barnard in Pinters Ink (1921). So here are 1300 give or take words on gold and one picture.
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Gold Reserves
A question was raised in the comments section about the level of gold reserves held by Greece – a bit of google-fu shows something very interesting. The Greeks are better off than we are and we produce most of the damned stuff. Source – Wikipedia
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Returns Comparison
With the majority of world markets running hot I thought it would be interesting to compare last years returns for a handful of markets with their returns YTD. In the chart below I have looked at the value of $1 invested in each market for the 2014 calendar year and for the calendar YTD. This…
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Who Is In Charge?
Each decision to trade is implicitly based upon an assumption as to who is in charge – the bulls or the bears. However, this decision whilst it seems reasonably simple is actually a very hard one to make. In part I think the difficulty arises because of the myopic nature of traders and the inability to…
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