"Dark Matter, Does it Matter?"

Keith Schneider | May 11, 2014

In one of the most difficult markets to trade, highlighted by the disparity between small caps, high flying momentum stocks and big caps, the question remains... what forces have been pulling those stocks down? Will those forces persist and end …


"No Market for Old Fundamentalists"

Keith Schneider | April 28, 2014

If you are looking for logic from the current market action across various asset classes you might have to wait till the Cows come home or Cattle prices retreat. Many traditional inter-market relationships have simply broken down.

For example, Cattle …


Tough Week for the Market, Even Tougher for the Ladies

Keith Schneider | April 14, 2014

This week, women have had a smorgasbord of negativity tossed at them. It ranged from Hillary Clinton dodging a shoe toss while giving a speech and ended with the literal tossing out of Kathleen Sibelius, Secretary of the United States …


The Truth about Flashers

Keith Schneider | April 6, 2014

Considering all the hupala about Michael Lewis’s new book , Flash Boys, I would like to weigh in on the subject matter. Having been an independent floor trader on all the NY Commodities exchanges and having develped several high end …


Old Board Games

Keith Schneider | March 31, 2014

The big news this week is that Putin called Obama to “resolve” the crises is Crimea, actually, make that the Ukraine and Moldova, as Crimea problem has been solved, with a slight re-arrangement of the geo-political chess board. Rumor has …


The Lines In The Sand Are Clear

Mish Schneider | March 24, 2014

Last week the stock market tried to move higher, but by the end of the week it had done little more than trade in a range. The lack of direction, however, has now setup many of the charts in such …


Ruble in a Rubble, and China in Trouble

Keith Schneider | March 17, 2014

This week, out here in the high desert of Santa Fe, New Mexico amid the downdraft in the market, I got chill down my spine. I wasn’t sure whether it was an actual misdirected Artic Blast or something nostalgic, like …


What's The Rush?

Keith Schneider | March 10, 2014

“Canon to the right of them
Canon to the left of them
Canon in front of them
Volley’d and thundered”
Excerpt from Charge of the Light Brigade
By Lord Tennyson-1855

The crisis in Crimea and the Ukraine is the problem …


Talk is Cheap; Messaging is Cheaper

Keith Schneider | February 23, 2014

This week Facebook/Marc Zuckerberg bought a "startup" called Whats App for 19 Billion. Their product is a messaging app that circumvents those nasty text messaging fees imposed by wireless carriers working cross platforms as well. They have almost 55 employees …


2014 is not 1929

Mish Schneider | February 17, 2014

The last couple weeks have seen increasing attention paid to charts suggesting bearish parallels between 1929 and now. The 1929 pattern happens all the time, but the result is not always the same.

Due to the holiday weekend, this week’s …