But What's Confusing You Is Just The Nature Of My Game

Mish Schneider | April 8, 2015

“Sympathy For The Devil” The Rolling Stones

Please allow me to espouse on the state of the Fed, the market and how I sift through it all.

Concerning Federal Reserve Policy and Interest Rates, I believe the economic numbers take …


They Rally Round Tha Family! With a Pocket Full of Shells

Mish Schneider | April 7, 2015

Rage Against The Machine: Bulls on Parade

With about an hour to go before Tuesday’s close, I tweeted that our delicate sibling, Transportation (IYT), needed to finish out the session over 124.94 or higher in order to give us a …


Let It Goat

Mish Schneider | April 6, 2015

Disney’s Frozen’ Mash-Up With Goats Bleating

Market two-faced? Wearer of many masks? Nah!!! Is it a comedy, tragedy or a little of both? Yeah!!!

What about the word "tragedy" derived as a compound of two Greek words: (tragos) or "goat" …


Comedy Is Tragedy Plus Time

Mish Schneider | April 5, 2015

Carol Burnett

As a part-time actor in our local community theaters, I think a lot about the iconic Comedy and Tragedy Mask. The masks were taken from Greek Mythology and were worn in the Greek theater to distinguish the different …


Constantly In The Darkness, Where's That At?

Mish Schneider | April 1, 2015

Joni Mitchell, A Case of You (Joni-Get Well Soon!)

“I am a lonely painter, I live in a box of paints,
I’m frightened by the devil, And I’m drawn to those ones that ain’t afraid.”

I hope my last 2 …


I Saw Carmen And The Devil Walkin' Side By Side

Mish Schneider | March 31, 2015

The Band, Music From Big Pink 1968

Could it be that there really was “Terror at 18,000 in the Dow?”
Okay, so maybe the word “terror” is a bit of a hyperbole; but, we saw that level scraped on Monday …


My Invincible Opponent and No Finishing Line

Mish Schneider | March 30, 2015

Time Got No Time To Wait For Me Hellacopters

With regard to the Simpson’s episode from the mid 90’s “Terror at 5 1/5 Feet", I wrote a weekend homage about the similar scenario playing out in the overall market or …


Treehouse Of Horror IV

Mish Schneider | March 29, 2015

The Simpsons

Happily, we began last week corking the champagne and staying sober. Then, on Thursday night I watched a rerun of The Simpsons that goes back to the 1990’s called “Terror at 5 1/5 Feet". That show was an …


The Bird of Hermes Is My Name, Eating My Wings To Make Me Tame

Mish Schneider | March 26, 2015

Kohta Hirano Japanese Manga Artist

Do we regard the 3 day sell-off beginning Monday in the S&P 500 as short-lived considering the marginal 4th day red close on Thursday?

Trading conditions were choppy to say the least as the 4 …


If Little Boy Blue Had Had A Dog

Mish Schneider | March 25, 2015

If this year patterns in the same way it has patterned since it began, then we can assume that the 3 day sell-off beginning Monday in the S&P 500, placing it just below the 50 DMA but above the 100 …