Quantitative easing” is so bogus it defies belief. It is a fancy name purposely intended to deceive the gullible and naive. What it really is is simple: PRINTING MONEY. There will be consequences. There always are when the politcos refuse to honestly deal with the public. Everytime a central bank PRINTS MONEY, the result has been INFLATION. It...

OREX rockets higher on Diet Pill news. Orexigen rose $5.20, or 109 percent, to $9.96 at 9:57 a.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market composite trading, the most since April 2007. Options traders placed record bets on Orexigen last week, saying a positive panel vote would double the company’s value. Vivus shares gained $1.20, or 15 percent, to $9...

There’s no question about it, 2010 has been pretty difficult for most traders in the crude oil market. This year has produced no discernible, lasting trends in this market. The trends it has produced have lasted little more thanjust 3 or 4 weeks at best. So what’s ahead for this market? In today’s short video we examine the fact that...

Scott Redler of T3Live Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq:NFLX) has been a stock I have looked to trade for momentum all year as it has made a huge move from $90 to about $208. The stock has a legion of staunch naysayers who believe it is highly overvalued (with a PEG ratio of 2.43), but it has continued to push higher. We use a tier system for entries and exits,...

by Karl Denninger Now comes this lawsuit out of Texas alleging that Bank of America not only tried to collect on a PAID IN FULL mortgage but refused to listen to the fact that it had been paid in full and in fact threatened that the owners were “going to lose their home.” These banks all claim there is no “real problem” with...

Courtesy of rcwhalen, writing at Zero Hedge The Institutional Risk Analyst In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, we speak to Michael Whalen, award winning composer and new media observer about the outlook for the business of creating and delivering content.  Since graduating from Berklee College of Music, Michael has taught a business...

By: John Darsie of T3Live The January effect is a term to describe a phenomenon in the financial market where securities prices increase during the month of January, often following a decrease at the end of the previous year. The concept was firstintroduced in 1942 through a paper by Sidney Wachtel. The phenomenon, which effects small cap stocks more...

By Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT In past commentaries, I’ve written about my favorite form of technical analysis. That is intermarket analysis. Intermarket analysis takes traditional technical analysis much further. Normally, we’d look at a market by itself. We’d look at its price action, potential patterns and its momentum. Intermarket analysis...

Courtesy of Mish President Obama has agreed to a tax deal that’s bound to please deficit-hawk hypocrites on both sides of the aisle. The cost is a mere $30 billion spread over 10 years. Spreading the cost over 10 years is an interesting concept given that the extensions are “temporary” for only 2 years. Of course the last extension...

Courtesy of Tyler Durden released in The Australian Don’t shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths IN 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide’s The News, wrote: “In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win.” His observation perhaps reflected his father Keith...

The volume on Citi is wild. Tyler Durden writes: Following last night’s sale of Citi Treasury shares, we have learned that S&P will increase the float factor of Citigroup in the S&P after the close from 88% to 100%. As a trading desk reports: “We estimate S&P index funds have up to 374 mln shares to buy today (~89% of ADV), assuming...

Tim Iacono This starts out like some loopy morning show, but Jim Rogers does have some common sense wisdom about some of the things he sees in the world today. On QE2, QE3, QE4…: It is dumbfounding and stupefying to me that we have a central bank in the United States that thinks all they have to do is print money. That has never worked, never anywhere...

This is a special announcement. If you’ve been a trader for ANY length of time, you know what it feels like to miss a trade your trading system signaled you to take, only to see the huge winner you were waiting for go by. Or how about watching all of your built-up profit for the week evaporate in one “bonehead” trade where you lifted...

By John Townsend, The TSI Trader Many investors are aware of the price movement in gold and silver of late, but have you looked at Palladium?  Palladium has exploded right past the entire field of commodities along with the little sister of Gold, which is Silver. Both precious metals have logged sizzling 80%+ gains, year to date.  Palladium related...

By Sam Kirtley www.skoptionstrading.com Gold investors tend to focus overwhelmingly on the relationship between the US dollar and gold, citing that a lower dollar leads to higher gold prices in US dollars. Whilst this may be generally true, there is another relationship that does not get as much attention as we believe it deserves, and that is...