2018-01-06 12:04
Soooooooooooooo it has been a while since I last posted--personal health issues and the death of a loved one was the reason.During the last 9 yrs you (and I) have missed the single best inve… Read More
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2014-05-22 18:14
Not new to BSI readers, but Janet Yellen the new head of the Fed admits that the best way to build credibility is to lie to the idiot public. At least she is honest about it, unlike Banana B… Read More
2014-05-21 18:40
Having a good credit score is essential in order to obtain financing at affordable rates and can save you thousands of dollars in terms of interest charges. Here are 7 easy steps to improve… Read More
2014-05-20 23:59
Lying is wrong mckay. Don't do it. It is not right and it is dishonest. So says the mainstream world.Fuck that nonsense. Done properly, lying can help you improve your life (career wise, rel… Read More
2014-05-18 21:39
Not new to BSI readers, but Janet Yellen the new head of the Fed admits that the best way to build credibility is to lie to the idiot public. At least she is honest about it, unlike Banana B… Read More
2013-08-08 20:11
OVERVIEW[insert attention grabbing sentence ha ha] Sick of making payments to your credit cards company? Would you like to have a credit card company pay you $… Read More
2013-08-07 22:21
OVERVIEWWith the widespread acceptance of using credit cards for everyday purchases, credit card fraud has become a ubiquitous and ever increasing problem. In the last 2 weeks I have pe… Read More
2013-08-05 19:58
OVERVIEWEverywhere I go I see more and more creative weight loss solutions offered to more and more gullible fat Americans. Whether it is spot fat remover, supplements, book… Read More
2013-08-05 18:28
As many readers will know, I am a great aficionado of tobacco stocks and believe they have the single best business model of all-time. They sell an addictive product to loyal customers… Read More
2013-04-24 18:49
A quick blurb about Apple's earnings. Apple reported earnings last night which beat already lowered expectations. Little surprise. Under-promise over deliver as usual. However, guidance was… Read More
2013-04-23 21:59
Historically, most terrorism was committed for ideological reasons, but now a new form of terrorism may be emerging: for-profit terrorism.On April 23 2013 AP's widely followed Twitter a… Read More
2013-03-19 01:27
Well. I am finally back to the blog after a very long and pleasurable hiatus.I am going to begin publishing a weekly survey of the current macro environment with my various trading positions… Read More
2012-05-08 23:00
Back from hiatus. As frequent readers will remember, gold remains a core part of my portfolio (since the beginning of QE madness from the FED). However, from time to time I will take a tradi… Read More
2011-10-02 22:54
My silver bug friends are going to hate me for this, but it looks like Silver Wheaton (SLW) is completing a massive 11 month head and shoulders top formation. If this pans out, the price tar… Read More
2011-09-29 19:16
Considering that the market has done nothing for the last few weeks, except bounce up and down in a very tight range, one would think that sentiment has cooled off from August's market crash… Read More
2011-09-27 18:11
All good trades must come to and end as they say. The time has come for my Sugar short. I caught a nice 14% downside move that was pretty much straight down. It would be piggish of me to pre… Read More
2011-09-26 20:47
The endless and increasingly desperate rumors of an EU bailout was enough to juice the stock market higher today. The Dow closed up over 270 points. To me, this has ominous parallels to the… Read More
2011-09-21 20:42
A few days ago I mentioned that Sugar was a good short from both a fundamental and technical view. So far the trade has done well. The longs are currently in liquidation mode as market senti… Read More
2011-09-16 18:22
With the market gyrating back and forth with no real conviction either way, I have been looking for uncorrelated trades, which can protect me from the non-stop risk on/risk off algo controll… Read More
2011-09-09 18:21
With the recent chaos in global markets, merger arbitrage spreads have widened considerably. This has made the risk/reward more favorable, allowing enterprising investors to take advantage… Read More
2011-08-31 04:00
Marc Faber is out with the latest issue of his famous Gloom, Boom, and Doom Report which is always a must read for serious investors. Unlike most of the other talking heads, Faber has an… Read More
2011-08-23 18:36
The last time this indicator fell by so much was back on June 13 2011 when the NASDAQ sentiment index hit -194. We mentioned (see Negative Sentiment Suggests A Near-Term Bottom) t… Read More
2011-08-14 22:19
Find out what the word's top investors are doing with their money during these tumultuous times.Bill Gross of PIMCO-- "Our best idea therefore is a 10-year Australian or Canadian bond. A 10… Read More
2011-08-09 17:24
Last night was a strange trading session. The Asian markets followed the US down. The Nikkei was off 4.5%, Kospi down 8%, and the ASX 200 was down 5%. As a result SP 500 futures plummeted an… Read More
2011-08-09 00:01
Amazing charts show the massive carnage.Here is a chart of the % of S&P 500 stocks above their 50 day moving average. We are at the same crash levels back in October of 2008.S… Read More
2011-08-08 20:15
With the Fed meeting tomorrow, everyone wants to know what the Fed's next move after this dramatic crash. This is a re post of a previous article which explains the Fed's options during a li… Read More
2011-08-08 19:20
No, I am not insane. The markets are in free-fall, crash mode, whatever term you want to use. Fear reigns supreme as everyone is talking about another recession, depression, etc. Hedge funds… Read More
2011-08-06 18:09
Back in Jan of 2011 Black Swan Insights predicted that the S&P 500 when priced in gold would decline. So far in 2011 this has been the case. The following chart shows just how poorly the… Read More
2011-08-06 04:49
Well it happened--after markets closed, S&P officially downgraded the credit rating of the US. This is a truly historic occurrence which will have far reaching impact on the economy and… Read More
2011-08-04 21:26
That little EU debt crisis we have been warning about for over a year is finally hitting the fan. The market has fallen over 10% percent in the last 9 trading days, which is similar to a min… Read More
2011-08-02 19:50
With Spain having crossed the thin red line into bankruptcy, with its 5 YR CDS surging above 400 bps and Italian 10 year yields rising over 6%, the next chapter in the EU debt crisis is… Read More
2011-07-31 20:07
It always sickens me when corrupt politicians say we can't cut the federal budget. They say we have to keep spending our way into bankruptcy to save the economy. Here are 8 si… Read More
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