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Profits In Currency Options Better Than Stocks

| April 16, 2008 | 0 Comments

Have you looked at the S&P 500 lately?  The S&P 500 is an index of the top 500 companies in the stock market.  It’s supposed to measure how well the market is performing.  Yesterday it closed at 1,334.  This is a stunning number. You see, the S&P 500 first reached the 1,334 level in May […]

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Falling Dollar Benefits Large U.S. Multinational Companies

| March 3, 2008 | 0 Comments

Who would want the US Dollar (USD)?  This is a question investors and traders ask themselves all the time.  The US Dollar continues to fall and nobody can see the light at the end of the tunnel.  Look at the chart below.  This is an index of the US dollar against a basket of currencies.  […]

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Falling Dollar’s Effect On Stock Market

| February 20, 2008 | 0 Comments

Lately, the US markets have been whipsawing back and forth.  Up 100, down 100, up 100.  It’s hard to find a trend in markets like these, but I’ve found one . . . the US dollar.  It seems like the US dollar has fallen every day for the last few months. For some people this […]

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Gold Prices Should Continue To Rise In 2008

| January 16, 2008 | 0 Comments

2008 is off to quite a start.  In the first 10 trading days the Dow has fallen more than 5%.  The Nasdaq and S&P 500 haven’t fared much better. Gold, however, is up more than 6%. If gold were to continue increasing like this for the year it would be worth more than $2,200 per […]

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US Dollar – Trends For 2008

| December 19, 2007 | 0 Comments

We find ourselves less than 2 weeks away from the end of 2007.  It seems like thoughts of what 2008 will bring are already seeping into the consciousness of investors these days. CNBC has started taking suggestions from various fund managers on what they see for the new year.  I’m still waiting for my call […]

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The Price of Gold Continues To Rise!

| November 5, 2007 | 0 Comments

A few months ago in my article “Has the bug bitten you yet?” I wrote the following: “This is truly one of those buy and hold instances.  A perfect storm is brewing in the gold world, and there is only one way for this precious metal to move – and that is UP.  There are […]

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US Dollar Continues To Weaken

| July 18, 2007 | 0 Comments

I was at a party a short while back where the big topic of conversation was the markets.  I sat back and listened with interest about how these investors viewed the markets.  Interestingly, and as a total aside, 18 months ago real estate was the hot topic, now it’s the market. Anyway, this well educated bunch spent most […]

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