Archive for March, 2012

• Must read for commodity and commodity ETF traders — U.N. paper on the structural changes of markets from HFT
  Posted by PeterLBrandt on March 30th, 2012 at 10:50 am, Comments: 0

    The embedded PDF below is a MUST read for traders of commodities and commodity-related ETFs. This academic paper attempts to analyze the structural and [...]

• Corn flashes major sell signal
  Posted by PeterLBrandt on March 29th, 2012 at 12:52 pm, Comments: 0

    Decline on Mar. 28 makes Corn a candidate for 2012 Best Dressed List I have commented for many weeks that the 6-month congestion in Corn was [...]

• Would Jesse Livermore be looking to go short Apple?
  Posted by PeterLBrandt on March 27th, 2012 at 12:40 pm, Comments: 0

    Apple ($AAPL) is finishing a textbook advance based on trading principles of Jesse Livermore. This advance could lead to a major top. [I thank [...]

• U.S. health care: Highest in the world in cost, 37th in performance. This system has already been declared guilty.
  Posted by PeterLBrandt on March 26th, 2012 at 3:54 pm, Comments: 0

    The health care system in the U.S. is 40% more expensive per capita than the next most expensive OECD developed countries As a country, [...]

• Sound bites from Uncle Benny the Bozo
  Posted by PeterLBrandt on March 23rd, 2012 at 2:06 pm, Comments: 0

    This collection of sound bite clips from Uncle Benny leading up to the financial melt down of 2008 shows just what a bozo he [...]

• Gold ready to attack new highs
  Posted by PeterLBrandt on March 23rd, 2012 at 9:30 am, Comments: 0

    Continuation H&S pattern would have target of $2,042 The daily Gold market chart has been forming a possible continuation inverted H&S pattern. If this [...]

• Copper, stopper, build a topper?
  Posted by PeterLBrandt on March 22nd, 2012 at 8:02 am, Comments: 0

    Some charting evidence of a pending top exists in Copper. This evidence includes the likely build up of a large volume of sell stops [...]

• My dilemma over the prices of corn & soybean meal
  Posted by PeterLBrandt on March 21st, 2012 at 10:45 pm, Comments: 0

    The long-term chart of Soybean Meal is outstandingly bullish. Yet, the chart of Corn is potentially quite bearish. Which one is lying? What does [...]

• Proposal to fix MF Global-type heists through the “Corzine Rule” is too little, too late
  Posted by PeterLBrandt on March 21st, 2012 at 2:38 am, Comments: 0

  The following article is from Wall Street Journal Online. Let me say at the very onset that the headline above is mine, not the WSJ’s. [...]

• Corn — $2.75 per bushel move is pending (very soon)
  Posted by PeterLBrandt on March 19th, 2012 at 11:52 pm, Comments: 0

    The Corn market is beginning to flash a signal of extraordinary magnitude  A number of technical/fundamental factors are lining up that could usher in a [...]