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 …


Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep

Mish Schneider | March 24, 2015

Retail XRT holds the honor of matriarch. Transportation IYT slipped back to an unconfirmed warning phase in its role as the temperamental spawn. Biotechnology IBB, began the week naughty, but does appear to be finding some stability with the underlying, …