Expiration week … means high(er) volatility and funny moves … A good example was today … charts looked weak … BUT in today’s world … the “ones who know” … have the power … So what happened … Europe went bid … slowly … but steadily … Then some fundamental news … again all weak [...]

Just some figures, hopefully NOBODY can explain and/or justify … They should give the money to charities … it is a scandal as they proved to be worthless to their shareholders: John Mack (Morgan Stanley) … 2007 earnings … 41.7 mln $ John Thain (Merill Lynch) … 83.9 mln $ Vikram Pandit (Citibank) … 105.16 [...]

Don’t be afraid … I won’t have this as a daily column from now on On the other hand … it could make sense … Especially as all of Wall St. fights to survive the June Expiration and the Q2/H1 end … Today … they created first a bullish chart set up for Europe … [...]

Every day … the PPT tries to hold the market … whenever they see a chance, they bid aggressively … sell into the short squeeze … but still they are not too successful … Today … a good example … In the morning … bidding the market up on 2 reasons … – a good [...]

Why does the market makes me smile? Because it is falling? NOOOOO … The reason is the difference about real reasons … and what the media tells us Here comes the last example … Last Thursday, markets were squeezing higher and totally ignored the bond insurer downgrades … Since then … without being recognized in [...]

ECB and FED are afraid … they talked the truth … at least a bit … The market reacted … that made them scared … them, the stupid cheerleading manipulators Now they start again talking markets up … – We said SMALL rate hikes only – We are in NO HURRY to hike – We [...]

Fed seemingly got the message of the ECB … The message is … We waited long enough … now you should have your problems solved … We will start hiking rates … follow or bury the US $ Reckless naughty french boy … Mr Trichet … his friends call him J.C. Today … two FED [...]

- A very weak economy … not only in the U.S. … – 2 more downgraded bond insurers, pressuring the financials … – An rocketing Oil price as Israel sees a strike against Iran and Libya sees a June price spike … – An hawkish ECB, which makes sure interest rates will rise globally … [...]