Category: Research
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Insiders Are Bailing Out… [Dirty Dozen]
He that would run his company on visible figures alone will soon have neither company nor visible figures to work with. ~ W. Edwards Deming In this week’s Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK] we talk about speculators buying the dip in Qs along with that means for this selloff. We then discuss the very high insider…
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An Industry Primer on Tungsten
80-20 Industry Primer: Tungsten A Pareto Approach to Industry Analysis … Tungsten is the smallest, most opaque commodity market we’ve covered in our 80-20 Industry Primer series. Global supply is ~106,000 tons, with recent spot prices around $305 to $325/mtu. Nobody’s pitching tungsten on Twitter or Seeking Alpha. Almost every tungsten mining company profiled over…
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What Is Going On In Mexico? [Dirty Dozen]
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. ~ Marcus Aurelius In this week’s Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK] we go over the 2023…
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An Industry Primer on Tin
A Pareto Approach to Industry Analysis … Tin is one of the world’s smallest, most obscure commodity markets at $9B in total value. Because of its small size, it remains off the radar to most traders, investors, and institutions. Almost all of the things we love about uranium are present in tin. In fact, we…
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A MAJOR SELL SIGNAL JUST TRIGGERED… [Dirty Dozen]
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. ~ Khalil Gibran In this week’s Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK] we go over the major sell signals triggered last week and discuss what this means for the market. We then talk about the current consensus and how that consensus is wrong, and we…
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A New Bull Market In Smallcaps? [Dirty Dozen]
There’s no reason to take substantial amounts of financial risk ever because you should always be able to find something where you can skew the risk-reward relationship so greatly in your favor that you can take a variety of small investments with great risk-reward opportunities that should give you minimum drawdown pain and maximum upside…
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A Big Breadth Thrust In Financials [Dirty Dozen]
By doubting, we come to examine, and by examining, so we perceive the truth.~ Peter Abelard In this week’s Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK] we look at seasonality, internals, financial breadth thrusts, weakening US labor data, and a bullish setup in corn, plus more… 1. The SPX has a seasonal tendency to dip over the next…
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Market Headed To New All-time Highs? [Dirty Dozen]
That warm sense of everything going well is usually the body temperature at the center of the herd. ~ John Masters In this week’s Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK] we look at monthly charts for the SPX, bonds, gold, DXY, and more… 1. The market saw a strong close for November. It’s now within 5% of…
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Can The Gold Bulls Pull Through? [Dirty Dozen]
If you consider our position as human beings trying to understand the world in which we live, you will find that we cannot confine our thinking to subjects that are independent of our thinking. We must make decisions about our lives and in order to do so we must hold views that do not qualify…
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More Fuel For the Bulls… [Dirty Dozen]
It might seem that if you have an edge, the way to maximize the edge is to trade as big as you can. But that’s not the case, because of risk. As a professional gambler or as a trader, you are constantly walking the line between maximizing edge and minimizing your risk of tapping out.~…