Investors Could Sure Use a Market Whisperer

Mish Schneider | November 6, 2016

I’m not sure who approached who more cautiously. The horse or me. I made the first move.

I held my hand out in a gesture of friendship. In turn, the horse put her head over the railing and gave my …


Safety in the Herd Until After the Election

Mish Schneider | November 3, 2016

For most of September and October, I reinvented creative ways each day to say the market was in a trading range.

Since Monday, when the trading range broke to the downside, I have another no less creative or inventive task.…


The Market's Trail to the White House

Mish Schneider | November 2, 2016

One of the best known and most dramatic Anasazi cliff dwellings is the White House Ruin located in Canyon de Chelly National Monument.

Named for the white plaster that decorated a long wall in the upper dwelling, the inhabitants abandoned …


Nature Erodes; The Market Corrodes

Mish Schneider | November 1, 2016

What’s the difference between a cavernous hole in a mountain made by Mother Nature and a cavernous hole in the market made by understandable jitters?

A hole made by Mother Nature occurs over hundreds of thousands of years. Erosion.

A …


What Does "Shake it Up" Mean for Your Money?

Mish Schneider | October 31, 2016

These Native American women with closed eyes and opened mouths hold their empty vessels out in prayer. The golden cloths attached to each one’s sleeve is the visual plea to Mother Earth to fill the empty vessels with bounty.

We …


A Giant Rat: The Market's Unexpected Trick or Treater

Mish Schneider | October 28, 2016

Part of the Meow Wolf Art Installation

Last Thursday night, we saw vampire bats overhead as we thought about the possibility of stagflation-the terror and awe of it.

Early Friday, a better than expected GDP of 2.9% helped boost the …


Stagflation: Terror and Awe

Mish Schneider | October 27, 2016

I suspect most of you have never looked up to see a throng of vampire bats overhead. Please imagine if you will, what emotions that sight might evoke. Terror? Awe? Both?

Now substitute bats flying overhead with the image of …


Market's Fighting for Its Life Inside a Thriller

Mish Schneider | October 26, 2016

Today, maybe not so much a Thriller, but definitely a market action Chiller. Or as the song goes, “…share a killer, diller
Chiller Thriller here tonight.”

Typical index, sector and group relationships swayed further from their norms. Nonetheless, none of …


6 Simple Strategies To Trade the Wolf's Meow

Mish Schneider | October 25, 2016

Art Installation in Santa Fe, NM

How many of you are as weary as I am of trying to find yet another creative way of saying the same thing each day about the market?

Oh, for those of you new …


Trading the Market Without an Authorized Guide

Mish Schneider | October 24, 2016

Baffling, as beyond this sign is a shear 600 foot drop into the canyon below. Doesn’t that make you wonder what sort of authorized guide they recommend visitors follow?

Not so different than the market action. Speculators feel prohibited from …