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S&P500 Short: Update

Posted on January 23, 2019 by macromon

Selling 5 contracts at the open of the overnight session.  Back to you with levels. Update:    Sold 5 March S&P e-minis at 2635.50.  Stop at 2680.00. Comment: Looks like good news on China deal is pushed out,  less of … Continue reading →

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Getting Short S&P500

Posted on January 23, 2019 by macromon

Selling 5 contracts at the open of the overnight session.  Back to you with levels.

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Reskilling The American Workforce

Posted on January 23, 2019 by macromon

The future is here, folks. We better start thinking big and bold, beginning with huge investments in human capital.  A new Marshall Plan for the American educational system. Python is not a difficult coding language to learn and the basics … Continue reading →

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This Day In Financial History – Jan 23

Posted on January 23, 2019 by macromon

From the Great Jason Zweig January 23: 1987: Daily trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange exceeds 300 million for the first time, as 302.4 million shares change hands. Museum of American Financial History; http://www.nyse.com/marketinfo 1932: The Reconstruction Finance Corp. is created … Continue reading →

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Global Risks 2019 – World Economic Forum

Posted on January 22, 2019 by macromon

Nice chart and table of what the World Economic Forum (WEF) deems as the major risks with their respective probabilities for the coming year.  Environmental, global warming and cyber are the most likely high impact events, complicated by a backdrop … Continue reading →

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Bolsonaro speaks at Davos, World Economic Forum

Posted on January 22, 2019 by macromon
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S&P500 Key Levels

Posted on January 22, 2019 by macromon

The S&P gave up 22 percent of its 6.54 percent YTD gain today. We nailed it in our 3 AM post, The Increasing Risk of A Major China Trade Debacle, Look to the government shutdown as your template as to how Trump … Continue reading →

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The Increasing Risk of A Major China Trade Debacle

Posted on January 22, 2019 by macromon

In case you missed our Week In Review, let us reiterate our concern about a potential major debacle in the U.S.-China trade negotiations. It appears President Trump and his negotiating team have, once again, painted themselves into a corner with … Continue reading →

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The Greatest MLK Weekend Of All-Time

Posted on January 21, 2019 by macromon

During my Lehman days as a bond strategist, the firm’s research group would do a January roadshow in many of America’s major cities to present our ideas to institutional investors.   One particular year, we were in Atlanta at the end … Continue reading →

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QOTD: MLK

Posted on January 21, 2019 by macromon

Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, circa 1958 QOTD … Continue reading →

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