My brother lives in the former Soviet Republics, and I talk to him to see how things are going. I asked, "how are things." He replied, "me I am doing actually pretty well, our company [x] is shutting down for about 3 months." He was telling me that his company has a huge number of cancellations and...

I have been watching less and less of CNBC. I can barely watch the FastMoney weenies. I try for 10 minutes and get so disgusted that I can only turn it off. But today I thought I would watch Squawkbox, and Squawk on the Street again. David Faber talked about something that I feel crossed the line....

In March of 2007 I said that Magna buying Chrysler would be a good thing. And I specifically said that private equity would botch this up. > Magna knows the car parts industry through and through. Thus unlike other private equity companies there is a good chance that Chrysler would survive and...

I am developing this platform called HippoTrader. It is an Excel based market environment tool that is the result of working with my traders. One of the things that this tool allows is the scanning of the market as the market moves. So I decided to watch the market for the bear raid algorithm....

Ok, I write trading systems, and as such watch the market quite closely. Well for the past few couple of months an interesting algo has revealed itself. I am thinking it is revealing itself because many are using it. Here is the trick and it is really apparent in pre-hours or after-hours. Find an...

Today I noticed something interesting going on. I noticed how there were buyers, but they were overwhelmed. And that got me to thinking. Who on earth would sell now? Seriously let's think about this a bit. If you are in deep do-do with your portfolio would you sell? Probably not. Are there...

I read this article and it said, "oh there is a descending triangle forming and that spells bad news. Really? It does? Why? Because analysts say so? > "We know only that 'triangles' such as this one tend to resolve themselves to the downside,'' writes Dennis Gartman this morning in The Gartman...

I keep hearing Fast Money and its rants! They keep saying, "oh the automotive industry is not doing any changes" Well I am going to keep the FastMoney crew honest! GM Labor Deal 2007 > GM, Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler have a combined $90.5 billion in unfunded retiree healthcare obligations on their...

I have to admit that my statistics model was walloped. Hey I was wrong, and that happens. About a year ago I did simple trend analysis of the long term DOW (since 1929) and what I saw I did not like. It said that we would reach levels that we are at now. So why did I not talk about that? Because I...

So I watched Meet the Press with Tom Friedman, and here is what he says: > Remember, what was Detroit's plan two years ago when they, when they confronted this problem?  It was to subsidize gasoline at a $1.99 a gallon if you bought a Hummer or Suburban or a big truck--that was their idea of...