Category Archives: Analysis (Market Calls)
What Does Gold Hedge Against?
“Not inflation”, the gold critics will shout, in one of their go-to arguments. This is what we hear from CNBC’s Mark Haines at every possible chance: since 1980, gold has not kept up with the CPI and so shouldn’t be used as an inflation hedge. One would point out to Mark that this is [...]
Buy the market when it does pull back.
Morgan Keenan’s Mike Gibbs on investing opportunities in the financial markets.
Ben Shannon on his misguided “SELL” stock market call delivered just before the stock market rally
Ben Shannon on his “SELL” market call
Previously: Wiser Than The Stock Market — NOT
UPDATE: Andrew Page + Henry Blodget
Wiser Than The Stock Market — NOT
Ben Shannon (alias “Jesse Livermore”, who blogs at “Wiser Than The Crowd”) claims on his blog to have an uncanny ability at forecasting the future and profiting from it, whether it is speculating on InTrade’s prediction markets or on the US stock market. Here is his stock market call from July 10, 2009:
SELL SELL SELL
REALITY [...]
2008 US electoral college: What I am betting on.
PollTrack:
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I like the way they color this electoral college map —with 5 colors only (simplicity is good). It is very clear and usable, I believe. You can see 6 states in gray (“too close to call”). I am heavily betting on Barack Obama for Florida and North Carolina. There will be a good payoff, next [...]
Arbitraging on InTrade
Sell everything.
Jason Ruspini will probably point the cause of the problem to InTrade’s transaction cost structure.
Free Money On The Table At InTrade
Short that.
Jerry Yang is very solid … relatively solid.
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