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Investment Returns on Everything

January 12, 2019 Published by

Okay, maybe not everything but definitely the returns on Real Estate and Stocks.  Often people debate over which is a better investment.
Luckily, I came across an economic study that analyzes a bunch of investments over the last 145 years!   Let me share what I found from it about real estate and stocks.
Real Estate vs. Stocks as an Investment
There are several key metrics to keep an eye on when investing, a couple of which I’m going to discuss below.
Investment return always seems to be the headliner when analyzing investment options so I will start with that one. It’s worth pointing out risk exposure

Palladium Is On A Roll

January 12, 2019 Published by

Palladium is widely used in three-way catalytic converters in car exhaust systems. Palladium is also used jewelry and in dental fillings and crowns.  Another common use for palladium is in multilayer ceramic capacitors. These are an important part of common electronics equipment such as cell phones, laptops, fax machines, etc. Palladium is also used in connector plating for a number of electronics.

If a US-China trade war deal can be reached, Palladium will likely increase in price from a Chinese plan to introduce policies to boost domestic spending on items such as autos and home appliances this year. 

Not only will

Crypto Contest January 12: Status

January 12, 2019 Published by

Status (Bittrex: SNTBTC) has broken out of the triangle pattern in the weekly chart.

(Chart courtesy of Tradingview.com (log scale))
Elliott Wave Analysis
In Elliott Wave terms, Status began a wave one advance in December 2017. The red wave one (blue sub-waves i-ii-iii-iv-v) finished in January 2018, and the red wave two (blue sub-waves a-b-c) correction ended in December 2018. If this wave count is correct, Status should be heading next towards the January 2018 peak in the red wave three.

(Chart courtesy of Tradingview.com (log scale))
Funnymentals
Status is an open source messaging platform and mobile interface to interact with decentralized applications that run on

Macy’s Missing The Mark

January 12, 2019 Published by

The day after Christmas there was a report that talked about spending during the holidays, the time between Black Friday and Christmas:

A robust shopping season from before Thanksgiving through Christmas has given retailers much to cheer about this year. According to Mastercard SpendingPulseTM, which provides insights into overall retail spending trends across all payment types, including cash and check, holiday sales increased 5.1 percent to more than $850 billion this year – the strongest growth in the last six years.

Source

Apparently, Macy’s wasn’t part of that report. Macy’s said its sales slowed after a good start to the holidays, and flagged

Why I’m Trying a Short Trade on SPX

January 10, 2019 Published by

Generally I like to see clear entry signals, but sometimes I try to anticipate a move if it is offering me a low risk proposition with a solid reward.
Taking a Shot on a Spinning Top
There are many names for candlesticks and candlestick patterns.  Spinning top is one of them and it is what I am seeing on the daily chart of the SPX.

After seeing the SPX gap higher three consecutive days and then create a spinning top yesterday I thought why not get short at the close of trading and put in a stop loss at the day’s high.
Basically, for

Forex Analysis Report 1-10-19…Will The USD/CAD Continue To Rise??? – Part 2

January 10, 2019 Published by

Three weeks ago, I wrote about a trade set-up on the USD/CAD,

Forex Analysis Report 12-22-18…Will The USD/CAD Continue To Rise???

However, because momentum is so strong, I would suggest to wait until price shows you it wants to go lower. Meaning, wait for price to make a lower high and a lower low first and short on a pull back.

The strong correlation between the Canadian/U.S. dollar exchange rate and oil prices is due, in large part, to the amount of the nation’s total foreign exchange earnings that’s garnered through crude oil sales. In 2018, Canada was the fourth largest producer and exporter

Crypto Contest January 10: TRON

January 10, 2019 Published by

TRON (Binance: TRXUSD) has broken out of the triangle pattern in the weekly chart.

(Chart courtesy of Tradingview.com (log scale))
Elliott Wave Analysis
In Elliott Wave terms, TRON began a wave one advance in November 2017. The red wave one (blue sub-waves i-ii-iii-iv-v) finished in January 2018, and the red wave two (blue sub-waves a-b-c) correction ended in November 2018. If this wave count is correct, TRON should be heading next towards the January 2018 peak in the red wave three.

(Chart courtesy of Tradingview.com (log scale))
Funnymentals
TRON is dedicated to building the infrastructure for a truly decentralized Internet. Dallas Rushing reviewed the coin in October

Facebook Needs To Do Some Serious Convincing

January 10, 2019 Published by

Facebook had a tough 2018.  There was the Cambridge Analytica scandal where Facebook exposed data on up to 87 million Facebook users to a researcher who worked at Cambridge Analytica, which worked for the Trump campaign.  Then monthly active users in the U.S., Canada and Europe declined.  The most recent public relationship nightmare was news that Facebook shared more user data with third-party companies, like Microsoft, Netflix, Spotify and Amazon.

However, a picture is worth a thousand words, Facebook’s share price fell nearly 30% in 2018.

An article released by CNBC reported that things aren’t peaches and cream inside Facebook either.

More than

The Gold Trade $GLD $GDX $SLV $NUGT

January 10, 2019 Published by

Gold has been absolutely DESTROYED over the past couple years, and quite frankly been a big, fat, waste of mental capital. Well the wind and times may be changing for the pet yellow rock. Take a look…

I am taking a look at the GLD etf to make it easy and it is very liquid for any person who wants gold exposure (I personally advocate buying the physical metal). Notice how the monster rally took place while price was trading ABOVE the 200 weekly MA (blue line). Since the top we have been under this indicator for the majority of time

All Roads Lead to the End of the Dollar as We Know It Today

January 9, 2019 Published by

King Dollar. The World Reserve Currency. The currency that everything is based on, will NOT be the World Reserve in under the next 10 years. You may ask what is my reasoning? Well there are numerous reasons this trend has already began to unfold.
“Besides the fact the Federal Reserve is killing the dollar with QE1, QE2, QE3, QE-Twist, and QE-Forever (soon to be announced lol). Besides the fact that the gold standard which is what the dollar was originally based on no longer exists. Besides the fact that America is no longer the strongest economy in the world and our

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