An early stab Participating in the markets is full of conflicts. This is due to the fact of the high variability of the market which has as such many choices and many moving parts. In this week´s case we have [...]
Silver shining in 2020 Why might this be a good year for silver? Let us look at some silver fundamentals and some general factors that influence the price of silver: 1. A wide range of industries have an ever-increasing demand [...]
Pre holiday opportunity timing We pointed out risk, reward and psychological abnormalities of pre holiday trading in our previous chartbook. One always should reduce size for this sort of trading. Taking part if opportunity presents itself in pre holiday trading [...]
Time exits: exposure is risk In our last chartbook we pointed out reasons for our very active participation in the precious metal sector at this time. We wanted to underline, that our approach has nothing to do with pyramiding. Avoiding [...]
Building positions, arriving at target loaded December markets are tricky. With the closing of the year come rollovers in futures markets, tax considerations, hedge fund portfolio allocations due to accountability and much more. Markets are a reflection of human behavior [...]
Aggressive participation, why? As much as we use a technical analysis dominated approach toward the markets, it would be foolish to not have those views guided by fundamentals. It is at this point in time a true confluence point of [...]
Staying alert in pat We advocate a contrarian approach based on a time frame confluence system. When this confluence is absent as of right now, we do not open new large size positions. Most of the times we are positioned [...]
Overbought and oversold Learning to master the markets is like drinking from a fire hose. This does not change, no matter at what stage of the game you are. The vastness of possibilities and the challenges of psychology are endless. [...]
Portfolio reload, step up to the plate When the universe aligns or better said many edges speak in favor for a trading entry, it´s time to take action. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done. As contrarians, these times are [...]
Risk less - trade more Once a speculator has an established edge he/she has two ways of increasing profitability. Frequency = exposing the edge more often. Size = trade larger. It depends on ones psychology, ones system and many more [...]
