Silver Slaughter
We wrote earlier about Gold taking it on the chin, but what has been going on over the past two days in Silver (-12% today, -35% from 2011 highs, and going after 2011 lows) and, to a lesser extent, Platinum (-5% today and at new 2011 lows) is enough to make you scared to ever go […]
Turns out E*Trade doesn’t like being called out…
Earlier this year, we criticized E*Trade for their “it’s-so-easy-a-baby-can-do-it” rendering of trading. In our mind, it’s definitely misleading material- at best. But we weren’t the only ones who thought so… CollegeHumor.com, known for their humorous videos and articles that rely on parody to get a laugh, put together a video called “E-Trade Baby Loses Everything.” […]
Weekend Reads
Just when you think things might settle down… the Fed twists everyone up, stocks swing like a pendulum on a mission, Europe’s game of “Let’s Pretend” loses its luster, commodities take a nose dive, the barbarous relic drops faster than stocks after an Obama speech… and we still have two weeks to go until the […]
A Gold Exchange Closed!??!
If you’re looking for another signal that we’re facing dire economic straits, just check out the news today. A GOLD EXCHANGE WENT OUT OF BUSINESS. That’s crazy, right? Between that, and learning that Goldman Sachs rules the world, it’s obvious that things are going downhill in a hurry. Totally insane. And totally not what it […]
Unsurprising 10 Sigma Surprises
Great data graphic out from Reuters yesterday showing the historical 4 statistical moments (mean, standard deviation, skew, and kurtosis) of the major commodity futures markets. Anyone looking at dabbling in any of these markets would be well served to study this data for a bit. The first realization should be that not a single one of […]
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