About twenty minutes later we found ourselves tucked away in Café Paradis reading about the latest deep-water oil find off the coast of West Africa. The positive drilling results in the Venus well off the coast of Sierra Leone are not far from the Jubilee field Ghana, which is Africa’s largest deep-water oil field. It could be, so the experts say, the next big off-shore oil bonanza.
September 18th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "gabriel andre"
Important Financial Anniversary: Collapse of Lehman Brothers
Tomorrow is one of the most important financial anniversaries of the last 100 years. But how will investors celebrate? Or will they mourn? Or will even more of them start to buy gold, which traded at around US$1,006 in the futures markets?
September 14th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | Continued
Slipstream Trader: How to find small cap gains from large cap stocks
Editor’s Note: In the article below from Gabriel Andre–editor of the Swarm Trader and Slipstream Trader–you’ll learn how using technical analysis and chart analysis on ASX 200-listed stocks could add to your Australian stock returns. Read what “Operation Slipstream” is all about and how Gabriel plans to use it for the rest of 2009 to generate trading gains from blue chip stocks.
September 9th, 2009 | Gabriel Andre | 6 comments | Continued
Debt and Deficits Do Matter
We are told that for example debt doesn’t matter because if a company takes out a certain level of debt, say a very low level of say 10% debt to equity, that’s irrelevant to the company’s value because the person buying shares in that company can take out 90% debt to equity ratio.
September 9th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
Financial World Has Every Reason to Encourage Government Stimulus
Besides, the limits on executive compensation are window-dressing for public (voter) consumption. With bonuses limited by statute, we reckon more compensation for the financial industry will move back to stock option grants. That means for the financial industry to preserve its privileged status, stock prices have to move higher.
September 8th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 6 comments | Continued
The Inevitable Path Toward Capital Controls in America
This highlights what many people are now saying openly: the end is near for the U.S. dollar as the world’s preferred reserve currency. The dollar isn’t going away, of course. But already the Chinese have set up currency swaps to conduct bi-lateral trade with larger trading partners. These transactions are outside the dollar.
August 21st, 2009 | Dan Denning | 8 comments | Continued
Discussing the Dreaded Fibonacci Retracement
So let’s do that! And actually, it’s not inherently dreadful. Our Swarm trading technician Gabriel Andre uses the Fibonacci numbers to track trends in commodities, currencies, and stocks.
In fact, he’s been muttering to himself in French the last week that September may be a very good month for short sellers.
August 13th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 23 comments | Continued
U.S. Dollar Index Showing All Sorts of Weakness
The U.S. dollar taketh…and the U.S. dollar giveth away. That’s one way of looking at the flurry of activity in markets right now. The Aussie dollar is at a ten-month high. Oil is up 75% since January, with crude trading at $74/barrel. Copper is at a ten-month high. The S&P 500 has cracked 1,000 again.
August 4th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 5 comments | Continued
The Public Still Buys Stocks but the Love is Gone
According to the Australian Share Ownership Study by the ASX, overall share ownership among Australians dropped to 6.7 million in 2008, or just 41%. That was down from 46% ownership near the top of the market in 2006. According to Chris Zappone in The Age, “The study shows risk-wary investors saying they “they preferred blue-chip shares” amid falling confidence in the overall market.”
June 29th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | Continued
Is the Technical Rebound Over Already?
” Most of the market players who made quick and decent money during the past few weeks do not believe in a deep reversal trend on the markets,” Gabriel wrote. “They just took advantage of a technical rebound that already drove the S&P/ASX 200 twenty percent higher than the lows posted early March.
April 7th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 6 comments | Continued
The Road to Weimar
Over at the Wall Street Journal’s European edition (paid subscribers only), Frenchman Jacques Attali reckons we are all on the road to Weimar now. That is, he believes the entire planet may be headed for a depression and massive inflation. We are slouching towards Weimar Germany, where inflation was rampant…
February 16th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 7 comments | Continued
A Pivot Point
It’s at a turning point right now. One thing your editor has learned in the last eleven years of daily market observation is that when public sentiment reaches a point of maximum anxiety, it breaks like a wave crashing on the rocks. This is not as bad as it sounds. What we mean is that though the general trend of the market is obvious-lower stock prices on a weak economy and a confused policy response to the crisis-you will often be surprised at when the rallies come and how high they go…
February 11th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 12 comments | Continued
