Category: Research – Alex
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Musings: The Market, To Be Commanded, Must Be Obeyed
Alex here with your latest Friday Macro Musings. Latest Articles — Your Monday Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK] — We look at the trend in global PMIs and what that’s meant for sector returns going forward, plus we look at falling oil demand and dropping rig counts, and end with a look at some lending data…
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Musings: A Physicist Who Trounced the Market and “a Sh*t in the IPO Pond”
Alex here with your latest Friday Macro Musings. Latest Articles — Your Monday Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK] — We look at more short-term sell signals indicating further downside ahead, a massive collapse in global auto demand, a profit contraction in Germany and a possible recession in Mexico, plus some unprofitable IPOs and 230-years of global…
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Musings: Murder, Regression to the Mean, and a Stock Ripe for a Short…
Alex here with your latest Friday Macro Musings. Latest Articles — Your Monday Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK] — We look at MORE bearish positioning across equities, fund managers buying protection against a fall at a record rate, signs of an intermediate top in gold, and macro indicators that say a recession is still a long…
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Musings: Bubble or Nothing, a Major Regime Change, and a DEEP Value Energy Pick
Alex here with your latest Friday Macro Musings. Latest Articles — A Monday Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK] — We look at technical and sentiment indicators showing short-term overbought levels in US equities, incredibly low hedge fund exposure to stocks, the ‘pain points’ for CTAs in bonds, really cheap European banks and more.Oh, How Quickly The…
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Musings: Wealth, War & Wisdom and Japan’s Time to Shine
Alex here with your latest Friday Macro Musings. Latest Articles — A Monday Dozen — I take a look at bitcoin’s technicals, small-caps nearing a relative performance 70yr+ trendline, easy Q3 earnings hurdles, spiking global economic uncertainty and more.Welcome To The Value Hive — Our pseudonymous value expert, Mr. Bean, put out his first of…
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Musings: Hide Yo Kids… Economists Are Predicting a Recession! Plus, other Fun Facts
Alex here with your latest Friday Macro Musings. Latest Articles — A Monday Dozen [CHART PACK] – In this week’s Monday Dozen we take a look at short-term sentiment (still too bullish!), longer-term sentiment (getting pretty bearish), indications of a weakening US economy, credit stress, a long opportunity in the pound, a crowded consensus, and 250-years of…
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Musings: Memes and Violence, India on the Ropes, and Vol Talk
Alex here with your latest Friday Macro Musings. Latest Articles — A Monday Dozen [CHART PACK] – In this week’s Monday Dozen I take a look at anxious markets and discuss the fuss over the inverted yield curve, plus we check in on liquidity, sentiment, and relative valuations and end with a sector that has all three…
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Musings: President Ivanka, Recession Hysteria, and How Honeybees Make Decisions
Alex here with your latest Friday Macro Musings. Articles I’m reading — “The year is 2030 and the S&P just broke the 1 million level following an algo-induced short squeeze after Trump tweets, “President Ivanka headed to China to negotiate an even better deal for USA. Chinese seriously intimidated because she’s hot.” It has now…
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The “Renewable Energy” Misnomer and Bond RSI Lower Than 08′
Alex here with your latest Friday Macro Musings. This week’s Musings are shorter than usual as I’m currently on a plane to Cuba for a 3-day trip. It’s my first time visiting the small commie island. If any of you have suggestions for things to do or restaurants to eat at, shoot me a reply…
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Musings: Internet Growth Hitting its Limit, A Teetering Tech Stock, and Some Bear Porn
Alex here with your latest Friday Macro Musings…Latest Articles — A Monday Dozen [CHART PACK] – I take a look at CROWDED trades, some of the worst earnings guidance in a decade, the US joining in on the manufacturing recession and more…There Are No Limits — I share a story about Bruce Lee and his…