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Profit From Market Manipulation On The S&P500 For Nice Easy Gains

It's pretty obvious to me that the S&P has some sort of regular big pump n dumps going on. I'm not sure what the nature of this is at the moment but I hypothesi...

Using SPXU to Short Equities

Introduction As everyone who reads this blog knows, I'm an equity bear. Pardon me if I think buying at the all-time high is a stupid idea and pardon me if I obs...

How to use derivatives

Introduction Derivatives are a popular bogeyman because of the role they play in ultimately helping people lose money. Sometimes in vast amounts. They became a ...

Bitcoin goes into deflation on this date.

Introduction  If you are even the slightest bit aware of what Bitcoin is, then you are likely aware that Bitcoin is issued into the Bitcoin economy through...

Société Générale Publishes Math Implying A 70% Crash If Bond Yields Hit 5%

The following chart is taken from Société Générale's research into the sensitivity of US equities to a higher interest rate environment. Specifically, with resp...

A Manifesto For The Big Short

I run a Facebook group called "The Big Short: Profit From The Coming Crash" (https://www.facebook.com/groups/thebigshort/) because I believe that screwing the h...

Crunch Time For The USD

Outline Cometh the man, cometh the hour. And yes, the hour is nigh for the USD index. Lets look at what's going on using the data from Macrotrends databse. The ...

Bitcoin has bottomed. Here's the proof.

As I've written on previous articles I think cryptocurrency exchanges are utterly useless for getting any decent info about the network or the state of the mark...

A possible outline for the first big short against the S&P500

The S&P500 has been one of the best performing American indexes since the financial crisis 10 years ago. The 50 year chart shows the bull run in graphic detail....

The Dollar Liquidity Storm

Introduction I will start this piece off by demonstrating how the dollar can have far-reaching international effects upon the economy in a very simple form by s...

Interbank Rates and what we can learn from them

Interbank overnight rates such as LIBOR determine the interest rate which big city banks charge each other for borrowing money. This is significant because we c...

How to play short on Eur/Usd

One of my favourite quotes is this: "The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient. " – Warren Buffett This is true for ...

If you run a small business then you need to read this. A detailed run-down on UK consumer confidence.

As someone who runs a real-life brick n mortar business based in what is essentially a discretionary category of consumer spending, then consumer confidence mea...

Bitcoin Update

I follow bitcoin not because I am a bitleaver who thinks it's amazing (I don't - there are better cryptocurrencies out there) but because unfortunately lots of ...

The crypto rout is nothing to do with whales or dumping and everything to do with the politics of the USD.

A common complaint I hear on facebook regarding the crypto rout is... "WHO'S DUMPING??!". The actual truth of the matter is... "Nobody that's who". Lets get int...

Don't be fooled by Apple.

The latest big "thing" in investing is Apple's record setting 1trillion market cap which their stock recently surpassed. This makes for very good press pieces b...

A great possible Elliot Wave trading outline to short Johnson+Johnson

Johnson + Johnson have been under a lot of fire recently due to Asbestos in old company talcum powder products. This caught my attention and I decided to look a...

My current EUR/USD Strategy

In short I am waiting for an entry on EUR/USD to go short on it. I believe we have head-and-shoulders forming here and if you check the chart above, you will se...

Something interesting I was passed by a friend of mine regarding the crypto markets.

A contact on Facebook recently posted me a graph of bitcoin. His theory being that Bitcoin is ultimately coming to the end of a long consolidation as per the Wy...

Why you should take more risks.

One of my favourite quotes (among many others) is this "Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as t...