• GoldCore
    01/13/2016 - 12:23
    John Hathaway, respected authority on the gold market and senior portfolio manager with Tocqueville Asset Management has written an excellent research paper on the fundamentals driving...
  • EconMatters
    01/13/2016 - 14:32
    After all, in yesterday’s oil trading there were over 600,000 contracts trading hands on the Globex exchange Tuesday with over 1 million in estimated total volume at settlement.

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What Do Falling Corporate Profits Mean With Stocks Near Their Highs?

quarter and are now down 16% from their peak in the 3rd quarter of 2013. Perhaps we don’t run in the ... which continues to trade near its all-time highs. Perhaps that’s a good thing considering we’ve found ... there were any, may have had on the stock market. This is what we looked for: Quarters when ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 05/30/2015 - 14:35 - 11 comments - 0 attachments

Will Putin's Next Step Be To Sell Gold?

third quarter of this year to strengthen its central bank as the ruble dove under the weight of Western ... on Sept. 6, 2011, but has dropped more than 35 percent since. It’s currently trading at around $1,100 ... I'm  All I know is that I'm gently averaging into MICEX fund trades.  I feel comfortable with this ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 12/17/2014 - 22:01 - 362 comments - 0 attachments

Bloodbath

stress crushed carry trades and sucked liquidity out of the world, slamming USDJPY, US stocks, bond ... BUYING WALMART IN THE LAST 30 MINUTES OF TRADING TO LIFT THE DOW MAGICALLY OFF THE LOWS ON A DAY WHEN CHINA YET AGAIN HALTS TRADING AND DEVALUES ITS YUAN???? AMERIDUMBS R BROKE AS A FUCKING JOKE BUT ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 01/07/2016 - 19:05 - 264 comments - 0 attachments

Q3 GDP Misses Expectations, Tumbles To 1.5% On Sliding Inventories

3.9% reported in the second quarter as the quarterly volatility continues at an unprecedented pace. This was the second lowest quarterly GDP print since Q1 2014 excluding the "double seasonal adjustment" ... GDP number, down from 2.42% last quarter. Once again the biggest contributor to spending growth was ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 10/29/2015 - 07:43 - 43 comments - 0 attachments

Stocks Slide On Dreary Draghi, Crude Clobbering, & Brazilian Battering

collapse...(which oddly retraced perfectly to gold for the week)   Crude has been moronically ... done’ Did you know this helps everything I trade for? Fading bonds on the CME floor Every ... quarter reports start coming out and the bond makret begins barfing its guts...... In memory of ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 09/23/2015 - 15:08 - 25 comments - 0 attachments

Rogue (Goldman) Algo Exposes Cracks In The Options Market

options contracts? There was no fine. Worse, they were able to get the trades busted. As in, pretend we ... Shortly after market open (9:30 ET) on August 20, 2013, a rogue High Frequency Trading (HFT) algo appeared ... There was no fine. Worse, they were able to get the trades busted. As in, pretend we ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 09/11/2013 - 20:23 - 27 comments - 0 attachments

How One "Lucky" Options Trader Made A 60,000% Return Over The Weekend

Perfect for paying off a congressman who can trade on inside info Perfect for paying off a Perfect ... With Keurig Green Mountain trading around $51 late on Friday, one "hopeful" ... options?   Probably a 20 something with a little account that thinks he knows everything about trading ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 12/07/2015 - 10:58 - 67 comments - 0 attachments

US Equities Are Crashing Again - Dow Futures Down 430, AAPL -2.75%; NYSE Unleashes Rule 48 (Again)

Perfect 50 fibo retrace, Now Perfect 50 fibo retrace, Now we start drowning. Almost too easy. ... value and profit expectations going forward. They are giant casinos, manipulated and traded in ... war booms .... coins ? He is just using his He is just using his "personal" trading account. ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 09/01/2015 - 08:10 - 120 comments - 0 attachments

Goldman Is Baaack: Slide In Trading Volume Offset By Second Highest "Prop" Trading Revenue Since Lehman

drove this? Clearly not a pick up in trading volumes: FICC declined 10% Y/Y and 22% from a quarter ago, ... answer: Goldman's prop trading group is baaaaack. With total revenue for the "Investment and Lending" group, aka "Prop", this was a whopping 46% surge in revenue Y/Y and up 36% from past quarter . ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 07/15/2014 - 07:18 - 40 comments - 0 attachments

The New New York Housing Bubble: Park Avenue "Maids Quarters" Studio For $3.9 Million

cease trading tomorrow? Anyone have info on this? Maid's quarters, huh? To Maid's ... for a maid's quarters studio (no really), something far more profound is going on beneath the ... apartment. Luckily, there are maids' quarters studios in the same building for nearly $4 million, ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 05/19/2013 - 13:40 - 122 comments - 0 attachments

Nigerian Currency Collapses After Central Bank Halts Dollar Sales To Stall "Hyperinflation Monster"

also been criticised at the World Trade Organisation by the United States and the European Union. The CDS market gives the clearest picture of what traded levels for the Naira may be like... ... stolen Africa's whole allotment of paper and ink. pods This is the perfect This is the ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 01/12/2016 - 09:03 - 70 comments - 0 attachments

For HFTs It's All About FX: Trading Currencies Is Now Virtu's Biggest Source Of Revenue

Which asset class was responsible for Virtu's trading perfection for yet another year.  It wasn't stocks ... period. Total trading profit in the quarter climbed 40 percent to $148 million." And as we predicted ... ignited stop hunt, for HFTs this is nothing but pure trading perfection as Virtu's result continues to ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 05/06/2015 - 06:43 - 15 comments - 0 attachments

Trannies Turmoil Amid Crude Chaos As Credit Crashes To 6 Year Lows

four-quarters-in-a-row drop in Transports since 1994 and the worst year since 2008...   As they caught ... with crude having a wild ride today...   A lot of chatter in the crude oil trading ... Stocks hit a 2 year lows... playing out 2008/9 perfectly... and heres todays market ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 12/08/2015 - 16:06 - 57 comments - 0 attachments

China's Hard Landing To Trigger Meltdown In India: "We Will See Another Crisis"

external trade likely fell for second consecutive year in FY16E, with both exports and imports contracting ... India’s exports and imports was even sharper than the global trade which contracted by 12- 13%YoY.” On Friday, in the wake of China's continued devaluation of the yuan, Indian Trade Minister Nirmala ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 01/11/2016 - 14:16 - 60 comments - 0 attachments

"Nothing Is Moving," Baltic Dry Crashes As Insiders Warn "Commerce Has Come To A Halt"

thing.  Not a ship in transit… If true, this would be catastrophic for world trade. Even if ... life support. Only healthy trade in the world right now making any money is inter Asia. This ... marched-on saying "a quarter of a point is nothing, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING - NO IMPACT AT ALL!!!" they ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 01/11/2016 - 13:05 - 164 comments - 0 attachments

Yellen, You Have A Problem: The "Rate Hike Corridor" Just Broke

structural failure of the rate hike corridor, it also reflect the quarter and year-end window dressing we ... dropped at month-end for all of 2015, with some of the larger of these moves occurring at quarter end, ... sheets for the quarter or year-end. However, the fact that there is this kind of major ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 12/31/2015 - 16:52 - 140 comments - 0 attachments

Goldman Admits It Was Wrong Forecasting 3% Yields For 2015 As It Forecasts A 3% Yield For 2016

the mantra of Goldman's credit strategists, who one year ago when the 10Y was trading right around ... where the 10 Year will trade: We are ending the year with the benchmark ... structure will steepen over the next couple of quarters. To be sure, the high volatility and downward ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 12/30/2015 - 11:10 - 29 comments - 0 attachments

Why The Chinese Admire "Putin The Great"

Union, still its biggest trading partners. Moscow's and Beijing's interests ... averaging  I just started averaging into a long rub/usd trade last week. The carry is reasonable, and the ... a quarter of its But a quarter of its population. Hence, 16 incarceration when adjusted. Land ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 10/03/2014 - 20:41 - 228 comments - 0 attachments

"America's Equity Markets Are Broken" Yale CIO Admits "Rigged Markets" Hurt Individuals

favoring short-term players. The root cause of the problem is that stocks trade on numerous venues, ... at the expense of long-term investors. Individual investors, trading through brokers like Charles Schwab, E-Trade and TD Ameritrade, suffer first as the brokers profit by hundreds of millions of ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 12/25/2015 - 13:00 - 47 comments - 0 attachments

Global Stocks, Futures Continue Surge On Lingering Rate Hike Euphoria

higher in early trade, following sharp gains across Asian markets and a higher close on Wall Street in ... Composite: 1.8%). 10yr JGBs traded flat after paring earlier gains following the weaker than prior 20yr JGB ... US and Asia-Pacific counterparts to trade firmly in the green, benefitting from the FOMC assumption ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 12/17/2015 - 06:59 - 36 comments - 0 attachments

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