Thursday, August 06, 2020
How to develop your stock trading strategy / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Submissions
Developing a trading strategy from scratch might seem an impossible task for the rookies. But if they know the common terms at trading, they can do so like a pro trader. The successful traders love to use their trading method as it syncs perfectly with their personality. You can buy the most expensive trading method in the marketplace, still, you won’t feel comfortable since the strategy is designed based on someone else personality. The developers design the system in such a way that it syncs with the personality of the developer.
We all know no one shares the same personality. So, those who are looking to become a profitable stock trader must learn to analyze the stock markets with their trading method. Let’s see how we can create a trading system like a pro.
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Wednesday, August 05, 2020
Stock Investors What to do if Trump Bans TikTok / Companies / Corporate News
By: John_Mauldin
By Justin Spittler : It’s the hottest social media platform on the planet. It’s growing faster than Facebook (FB), Twitter (TWTR), and Instagram. And it could come crashing down any day now.
Of course, I’m talking about TikTok. You may have heard of TikTok. You may even have a teenager suddenly singing and dancing around the house because of it.
In short, TikTok is a video sharing app where users can create short dance, lip-sync, comedy, and talent videos.
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Wednesday, August 05, 2020
Gold Trifecta of Key Signals for Gold Mining Stocks / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2020
By: P_Radomski_CFA
Nothing lasts forever, and the brightest flame burns itself out the fastest. That could very well apply to the current situation around PMs.
Speaking of indications pointing to the situation being excessive, let’s take a look at the USD Index.
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Wednesday, August 05, 2020
ARE YOU LOVING YOUR SERVITUDE? / Politics / Coronavirus Depression
By: James_Quinn
“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984
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Tuesday, August 04, 2020
Stock Market Uptrend Continues? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2020
By: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the Market
SPX Long-term trend: For now, the best guesstimate is that we are still in the bull market which started in 2009.
SPX Intermediate trend: We should be approaching an important high, with confirmation coming over the near term.
Analysis of the short-term trend is done daily with the help of hourly charts. It is an important adjunct to the analysis of daily and weekly charts which discuss longer market trends.
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Tuesday, August 04, 2020
The Dimensions of Covid-19: The Hong Kong Flu Redux / Politics / Pandemic
By: Stephen_Merrill
Is the Covid-19 global breakout a deadly pandemic calling for the most extreme measures to avoid a far greater catastrophe?
Or is the dimension of Covid-19 far, far less than stated by the Western media and officialdom?
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Tuesday, August 04, 2020
High Yield Junk Bonds Are Hot Again -- Despite Warning Signs / Interest-Rates / Corporate Bonds
By: EWI
Default rates of low-grade corporate debt are risingThe demand for junk bonds is running high among global investors -- again.
As the Wall Street Journal noted on June 9:
Europe's riskiest corporate debt has rallied to pre-crisis levels.
Elliott Wave International's July Global Market Perspective, a monthly publication which covers 40-plus market worldwide, showed this chart and said:
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Tuesday, August 04, 2020
Gold Stocks Autumn Rally / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2020
By: Zeal_LLC
The gold miners’ stocks have rocketed higher this summer, smashing out of their usual summer-doldrums sideways grind. That atypical strength has been driven by gold steadily marching to major new secular highs, fueled by strong investment demand. This has carried gold stocks and the metal they mine back to their traditional strong season, which begins with robust autumn rallies usually accelerating in late summers.
Seasonality is the tendency for prices to exhibit recurring patterns at certain times during the calendar year. While seasonality doesn’t drive price action, it quantifies annually-repeating behavior driven by sentiment, technicals, and fundamentals. We humans are creatures of habit and herd, which naturally colors our trading decisions. The calendar year’s passage affects the timing and intensity of buying and selling.
Gold stocks exhibit strong seasonality because their price action mirrors that of their dominant primary driver, gold. Gold’s seasonality generally isn’t driven by supply fluctuations like grown commodities see, as its mined supply remains relatively steady year-round. Instead gold’s major seasonality is demand-driven, with global investment demand varying considerably depending on the time in the calendar year.
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Tuesday, August 04, 2020
“Government Sachs” Is Worried About the Federal Reserve Note / Currencies / Fiat Currency
By: MoneyMetals
As July comes to a close, gold is up better than 9% for the month and has advanced nearly 30% for the year.
Gold’s record-setting rise has been driven by Federal Reserve stimulus, dollar weakness, and strong safe-haven investment demand. Even the Wall Street-centric financial media is taking note:
Financial News Anchor #1: Gold is shining once again, this morning. The spot price is touching all-time highs, as the dollar index sits around a two-year low.
Financial News Anchor #2: Those gold prices have hit an all-time high. The spot price of gold reaching a record.
Gold traditionally surges in times of turmoil. In this case, the economic impact of the pandemic, and those US/China tensions. They are sending investors to this safe haven. But the Federal Reserve's monetary easing measures, they also have a part to play in the price of gold.
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Tuesday, August 04, 2020
Gold Miners Still Pushing That Cart of Rocks Up Hill / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2020
By: Gary_Tanashian
Our hard working miner here (we’ll call him Huey) has been pushing his cart of rocks, first gently downhill from 2016 to 2018 and then uphill to a bull market since May 2019.
As tracked in NFTRH, in 2019 the macro backdrop became positive for the gold stock sector as gold entered a bull market by taking out the 1378 level and its ratios to stock markets began to rise. Gold/SPX is among the most important macro indicators to a bullish gold mining case as a gold price rising in terms of stocks is the key factor in drawing larger investment (e.g. institutions) to the sector.
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Tuesday, August 04, 2020
UK Government to Cancel Christmas - Crazy Covid Eid 2020! / Politics / Pandemic
By: Anika_Walayat
Apparenrtly for many British muslims Eid was cancelled due to the governments incompetent handling of the chinese virus that has seen over 65,000 deaths instead of less than 500 as there should have been if the UK had followed the South Korea model.
So ee are living in crazy times when a government minister can shut down whole areas of the nation by tweet, as was the case ahead of the Eid festivities across the Manchester area of the UK totaling some 4 million people which is a population about the size of Scotland!
So what does one do during crazy times for Eid? Have a crazy Eid slime party!
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Tuesday, August 04, 2020
Covid-19 Exposes NHS Institutional Racism Against Black and Asian Staff and Patients / Politics / NHS
By: N_Walayat
Why are black and asians more than twice as likely to die from covid-19 than white patients?
Answer the NHS like much of British society is institutionally racist. This IS the routine experience of staff and patients.
Therefore blacks and asians are warned to avoid NHS Hospitals due to institutional racism, where white staff are more likely to call the police on patients than to treat them as this report by Channel 4 news illustrates where staff call the police to drag an asian father away from his dying 6 year old daughters death bed.
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Monday, August 03, 2020
How Sony Is Fueling the Computer Vision Boom / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Stephen_McBride
He didn’t know it at the time, but in 1990 Eric Fossum started a revolution. In the early ‘90s, NASA was firing rockets into orbit every other month. And to take images of outer space, each spacecraft was equipped with cameras.
The problem was, these cameras were absolutely huge—roughly as big as a double-door fridge. Cameras used on spacecraft are similar to digital cameras, except they have to be a lot tougher. And they required tons of heavy wiring to work.
So NASA hired hotshot engineer Eric Fossum straight from Yale, and tasked him with miniaturizing NASA’s cameras. Within two years, Fossum created a “camera-on-a-chip”—a new type of image sensor that was smaller and consumed 100X less power.
Image sensors are tiny computer chips that essentially give cameras a set of “eyes.” They process light from the outside world and transform it into a bunch of 1s and 0s, allowing cameras to render images. Fossum’s “camera-on-a-chip” helped NASA slash the size of its cameras. But more important, his invention laid the groundwork for digital cameras and camera phones.
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Monday, August 03, 2020
Computer Gaming System Rig Top Tips For 6 Years Future Proofing Build Spec / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Thinking of specking a new system for gaming and productivity work in 2020, well here are my real world experience top tips of what you should do to ensure your PC is future proof for the next 6 years. As we take a loot at my system that cost £2,500 and see how it has fared over time with valuable lessons for our next build this year i.e. what CPU cores, memory and graphics card capability to go for in terms of addressing bottlenecks.
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Monday, August 03, 2020
Cornwwall Bude Caravan Park Holidays 2020 - Look Inside Holiday Resort Caravan / Personal_Finance / Travel & Holidays
By: Anika_Walayat
It's not too late to book a short-break holiday at a UK caravan resort for summer 2019. Here we take look at what to expect from typical caravan at a Cornwall holiday caravan park resort. Where this caravan is on the North coast of Cornwall at the Bude Holiday Resort situated 1 mile north of Bude Town. This is a 2 bedroom caravan, and as you will see it's literally like a tardis, how do they cram so much into such a small space? Find out what to expect in terms of facilities and sleeping arrangements.
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Monday, August 03, 2020
UK Caravan Park Holidays 2020 Review - Hoseasons Cayton Bay North East England / Personal_Finance / Travel & Holidays
By: Anika_Walayat
Thinking of booking a caravan park holiday for summer 2020? Then look no further than our series of videos of what it's like to holiday at a UK caravan park. This is at the Hoseasons Caravan Park at Cayton Bay, North East England, not 10 miles from Scarborough. We cover everything from checking in to use of the various facilities as well as nearby attractions.
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Monday, August 03, 2020
Best Travel Bags for 2020 Summer Holidays , Back Sling packs, water proof, money belt and tactical / Personal_Finance / Holidays
By: HGR
Here's a real world review of what are the best most useful bags for travel holidays 2019. We tested a wide range of bags from tactical bag packs sling shots, camera / gadget pouches, waterproof dry bags , money belts, document holders and more that conclude in what we found to be the most useful and what are not so useful to save you both time and money when considering which bags to to get for your next trip abroad.
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Sunday, August 02, 2020
Corona Crisis Will Have Lasting Impact on Gold Market / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
No matter what shape the recovery is, the epidemic will likely have lasting, positive effects on the gold market.During the most acute phase of the pandemic and the following economic crisis, there was no time to analyze various WGC’s reports on the gold market. Let’s make up for it!
I’ll start with the report “Recovery paths and impact on performance” about the gold mid-year outlook 2020. The World Gold Council notes that gold had a really excellent performance in the first half of 2020, rising almost by 17 percent (see the chart below), much higher than other major asset classes.
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Sunday, August 02, 2020
Precious Metals Warn Of Increased Volatility Ahead / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Our trading team witnessed a big drop in Platinum and Palladium prices early this morning while Gold and Silver continued to push moderately higher. We began to question this move and investigate any historical relevance to previous patterns. Our research team pointed out that both Platinum and Palladium rolled lower just 3 to 4 days before the breakdown in the US stock markets on February 24, 2020, while Gold and Silver were reaching recent price peaks. Could the patterns in precious metals be a warning of another potential volatility spike and price decline in the near future?
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Sunday, August 02, 2020
The Key USDX Sign for Gold and Silver / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: P_Radomski_CFA
Yesterday’s session was indeed volatile around the FOMC, just like we warned, and gold even moved to its previous high, likely forming a double-top pattern. Even though gold moved higher on an intraday basis, it didn’t invalidate its previous breakdown, which was a bearish sign. Gold was likely to decline, and it is declining so far in today’s pre-market trading.
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