Market Blog

20081103 Timer Commentary

…The only commodity reported in short supply is caustic soda, perhaps due to the current political climate…

20081027 Timer Commentary

…After hearing some sad stories from friends about their retirement savings being savaged by this bear market, we decided to offer a very simple, free timing signal…

20081020 Timer Commentary

…Facing the new normal for the next two to four years may be very boring for market adrenaline junkies…

20081013 Timer Commentary

…Investors who usually only pay attention to their mutual funds when they get their month-end statements are now skittish and on full alert…

20080902 Timer Commentary

…The 1000-day MA is also close to starting its own downtrend. The last time this happened was in 2002, when the market rolled over for another leg down…

20080818 Timer Commentary

…the market has crawled up through several levels of resistance and taken up line-dancing along the downward-sloping 50-day moving average…

20080804 Timer Commentary

…If you had been asked what would happen to the stock market if oil prices fell 18%, what would you have said?…

20080728 Timer Commentary

…Maybe this is a better way to frame the investigation: do we have an average set of problems riding this correction?…

20080721 Timer Commentary

…we read about the strong inverse correlation between oil and stocks – don’t be surprised to see oil come down and stocks not respond all that well…

20080715 Timer Commentary

…There’s nothing like pictures of people waiting in line to pull money out of their banks to create fear and uncertainty…

20080707 Timer Commentary

…Both of our long-only models continue to jump around a sideways trendline – confirming behavior for bear market action…