Whether it’s soaring or slumping — and it often does both during the course of a week — the financial sector never falls far from investors’ radar. That’s not news, of course. But what you might not know is that there are many ways to trade this sector, none of which involves buying or selling a single stock but, rather, making a single play...

By Chris Wood, Editor, Casey Research Here at Casey Research, we really don’t enjoy being a buzz-kill. It’s just that we think it’s more important for investors to be well informed about the reality in which we find ourselves today than it is to be happy-go-lucky all the time. The good news is that when the stuff hits the fan, as it has for...

The Market Ticker Why is it that we keep reading things like this months later in the so-called “mainstream media”? There is no certain bet in nuclear physics but work by Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) on the use of thorium as a cheap, clean and safe alternative to uranium in reactors...

The Mess That Greenspan Made From the current issue of the Weekend Update at Iacono Research comes this graphic that goes a long way in explaining how the model portfolio has produced a year-to-date gain of more than 11 percent. (Note that ETFs with asterisks are currently in the model portfolio.) Of course, an all long-bond portfolio would have...

Tim Iacono More evidence that banks and other institutions are already finding ways to skirt recently enacted regulations designed to protect consumers and will, someday, probably make an even bigger mess than the one the nation is still in the process of cleaning up comes in this WSJ report about purveyors of credit cards becoming quite creative...

by Tyler Durden July US Personal Income comes in at 0.2%, on expectations of 0.3%, and a previous print of 0.0%. Yet making less money does not prevent consumer from purchasing (i.e., not paying their mortgages), coming in at 0.4%, higher than  expectations of 0.3% (previous 0.0% as well). And it appears consumers may have jumped the shark on the...

Flat week with strong finish, where does that take us? Last week was a relatively strong week for stocks and commodities. Although the SP500 closed slightly lower on the week the price action Friday was strong. The recent pop in commodities has everyone feeling good and bullish again and we all know how the market works… When everyone is feeling...

Gold Scents The better than expected GDP numbers threw a slight monkey wrench in the trading plan (for you traders out there). I was expecting a gap down open that would break through the 1040 pivot. The plan was to buy into that gap with a stop under the morning intraday low. The market did break slightly below 1040 (1039.70) so in theory if one...

From Michael Krieger of KAM LP War is the growth hormone of the cancer that is big government. - Alex Jones A government always finds itself obliged to resort to inflationary measures when it cannot negotiate loans and dare not levy taxes, because it has reason to fear that it will forfeit approval of the policy it is following if it reveals too soon...

Courtesy of Michael Snyder at Economic Collapse Don’t worry everybody. Federal Reserve Chairman “Helicopter Ben” Bernanke says that the U.S. economy is going to be just fine, and that if it does slip up somehow the Federal Reserve is ready to rush in to the rescue. That was essentially Bernanke’s message to an annual gathering of central...

by David Galland, Partner, Casey Research The latest data on global gold trends, Q2 2010, just popped into my email box from the World Gold Council. The bad news is that the higher nominal price of gold has caused a 5% decrease in jewelry sales over the prior year. If you’re thinking “Hey, that’s not that bad!”, you’d be right. On this date...

By: J.W. Jones In my previous missives on the Greeks of the option world, we have spent most of our time focusing on Theta and Delta. In the real world of option trading, option prices are the subjects of three primal forces: price of the underlying, time to expiration, and implied volatility.  Delta and theta address the first of these two primal...

Understanding the key differences between both gold and silver’s risk/volatility levels plays a large part in how I choose a low risk trade setup. Those of you who follow me already know the GLD etf is my favorite trading vehicle as it provides me with low risk trading setups along with a very high win rate. Ok, let’s jump into to comparing gold...

The stock market has been TERRIBLE this summer. New trade signal has been issued. August will be the third month of losses for the stock market out of the last four when the books close next Tuesday and we move into September. The major US indices have lost more than 5% across the board with the Dow down just 4.25% and the Russell 2K down 10%. The...

By Jeff Clark, Casey’s Gold & Resource Report I get this question a lot: “Should I buy gold now, or wait for a pullback?” It’s a valid question. For nearly two years, gold hasn’t had a serious decline. There have been pullbacks, of course, but nothing assumption-challenging. In fact, since October 2008, gold’s ...