enigmaman

The Real Problem with Washington's Jobs Policy

The admin is not about empowering the people its about empowering themselves, that is why they prefer to hand out checks to people rather then provide them with tax relief, with a check, recipients are beholding to the check provider with tax relief they are beholding to themselves, how they live their lives and spend their money, the Gov wants and demands control everything they are doing is to that end


On Dec 03 12:41 PM User 353732 wrote:

> Less Big Govt = More real jobs
> Less Wall St = More Main St
>
> Why is this a "problem"? It isn't.
> Its a willed choice.

ETF Market Trends: Momentum is Decelerating Despite Stock Trends

Anybody seen the series " Mysterious Diagnosis" it revolves around a person with serious medical issues, problems that doctors and labs just cant figure out, the patient suffers for years because the so called medical experts cant connect the dots and refuse to believe the patient knows more then they do and so misdiagnose the problem and or often consider the patient psychologically unbalanced. We have the same today, with the experts in DC and Wall Street telling main street they know better, that what main street is feeling and experiencing is not what it appears to be, but as in the TV show, its main street that knows better and no matter what the experts say main street is not going along with the experts this time. I know the market technicians, WS pundits, DC crats , mass media will have a problem with this but it is what it is, main street may be simple folk but they are not stupid fool me once same on you fool me twice shame on me. The problem is main street feels scared and hopeless and dont see anything happening to change this, quite an indictment of the Obama administrations hope and change campaign

U.S. Economic Recovery and the Housing Sector Mirage

The housing starts news would be welcome if it wasn't for the fact that the majority were distressed sales to first time subsidizes buyers taking FHA insured loans. So not only are we giving them the down payment we are also insuring their loan against loss to the lender, so the tax payer is taking it on the chin yet again, the Government is setting the pins up to be knocked down one more time.

Recent Weakness in Equities, Commodities Is a Buying Opportunity

Good article and good points for sure, but Im not sure you get the point about this rally, its not that its hated, to a fundamentalist it just makes no sense, sure a certain amount of snap back from the March lows was expected, but fore the market to act as if the March lows never happened is troubling to many. The rally has been on low volume, extremely low VIX and without the benefit of main street participation so you wonder what is behind this move, is it just the falling dollar as everyone seems to believe? Isnt that dangerous, like a farmer planting all its acres betting the entire farm on a nearby drought will last long enough to drive the price of its crop to unprecedented prices? Is that what a prudent farmer would do?

Then the last month the market seemed to catch a cold, stopping going up and started to move sideways, volatility increased, volume increased on down days, serious swings from one day to the next, bad news on Monday is then good news on Tuesday, main street investor no where to be found, happy sitting on cash.

With all the talk about how strong this market is, many ask, is it really, for every + found there is an equal and or more onerous -, then you have the untenable spending, pending increases in taxes, costly legislation as well as everything else and there are serious concerns that this will bring down the economy in a W, it appears the markets will leave that fight for another day and make money while the sun shines, but that doesn't change reality and thats the concern

ETF Market Trends: Bears Emerge from Hibernation in Oversold Market

Every day we get conflicting reports that are slowly eating away at the green shoots scenario, it appears there is a negative bias forming concerning the economy and the big money traders are starting to hedge their bets

So where from here, what are the game plans, lets talk about "what is the opportunity" how do we play this market going forward, is the change coming the kind of change we can believe in and profit from, lets talk strategies

ETF Trends: Weak Rebound in Equities

thank you, its a place to start and learn


On Aug 20 11:32 AM J Clinton Hill wrote:

> enigmaman,
>
> consider the UDN (u.s. dollar bearish etf fund) if you don't want
> to select an alternative currency that is non-correlated to the dollar
>

ETF Trends: Weak Rebound in Equities

Is there an ETF that can be used to trade against the dollars move, not sure if Im phrasing this properly but it seems that this rally has been doing just that.

Credit Crisis Watch: Signs of Progress?

Excellent technicals that actually shows the information that we need to know, forget about what the so called Walstreet Gurus have to say, they are just filling air time with their suspect opinions and predictions. The old adage "believe 1/2 of what you hear and 100% of what you see" fits here perfectly. The charts provided tell us how the Patient (USA) is really doing, how its responding to treatment, while still in the ICU the patients condition has been upgraded from critical to serious not a small matter. Once we find the patients conditon has stabilized we can breath a sign of relief knowing a full recovery is now more likely, knowing the patient will not likely die or not be permanently impaired will be greeted with a slow but sustaintable improvement in consumer confidence reflected on Wall Street. The next few months is critical, a defibubulator has to be available and ready 24/7 to provide the stimulus needed to keep the patient alive in the case of any relapse. We are hopeful for a full recovery of the patient but its not out of the woods yet.