by Rafael Rosa on March 18, 2010
It seems like the U.S. Dollar (specifically the US Dollar index) will be tanking in the near-term, at least according to Goldman Sachs, Jim Rogers, SocGen, and many others. Here is a pie chart showing the currency composition of the US dollar index: As we can see, if the expectation is for Euro appreciation, it [...]
by admin on July 20, 2009
Excessive risk-taking with no effective risk-management can kill the bull. The current crisis is a good case-in-point. Nevertheless, to make a higher return on your investments, you need to take more risks. If you want to make $6.65 billion in bonuses in one quarter year (or a boat load of money), you need to go [...]
by admin on September 24, 2008
The Dow Jones has closed negative in the last two days and now stands slightly lower than 11,000 points. However, as illustrated by my top quality graph, the downtrend should have been higher and more intense than it has been. This inflation in the prices of securities is probably a result of the ban of [...]
by admin on September 18, 2008
As stated in a previous post, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has stayed in a very consistent up-down cycle for the last few months. It goes up for a day or two and then loses those gains in the next day or so. In the last three days it has also kept a similar pattern; [...]