UPDATE ON THE STOCK MARKET . Written Friday, May 23rd, 2008: 6:30 a.m. Stocks normally bounce after two or three days of sharp declines. And the size and cope of a bounce is telling. So yesterday’s “bounce” proved disappointing. For perspective, take the Dow Industrials . The Dow rose...
The Principle of History. Knowing one’s history gives us guidelines and a basis to work from. So yesterday I began to compare the last Papa Bear market we lived through, 1973-1974, which encompassed the first really oil crisis, to today’s ongoing bear market and oil shock. I said I was printing...
UPDATE ON THE STOCK MARKET . Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 We’re back to three days up in row , hoping today proves to be another up day, the fourth in a sequence, triggering Trader Vic’s bullish 4-Day Rule . In spite of more bad economic data yesterday morning, like twice the expected producer price...