Six years since last post and GLD hasn't changed!  A good investment?  Good enough to appreciate in value relative to CAD, however it wo...

Key indicators - S&P GSCI Index The only commodity holding up YTD appears to be Grains, and only because it's up almost 8% MTD.  A...

10 ways to download historical stock quotes data for free : Sounds a bit spammy but this is an oldish list from 2009 to download stock data...

ABX - Graphical P&F - Charting Tools - StockCharts.com : "ABX" Odd chart, almost looks like it's been programmed to look...

After months (or perhaps years) of uncertainty, Greece has restructured their debt and therefore defaulted, though some may try to avoid tha...

Bank’s don’t want your money.  They have the benefit of cheaper wholesale money vs. retail money, and just like a self-storage locker it cos...

How is it that the City of Peterborough, Ontario gets the same rating (actually, better) than the US Government? Nikola Swann was the secon...

Bunch of Canadian stock screeners. Top Canadian Stock Screeners Top Canadian Stock Screeners | Million Dollar Journey

As time progresses, options become riskier and riskier to hold.  Good Traders, like good drivers, look as far ahead as possible.   But wh...

Using VIX in combination with CDS premiums (how much a company has to pay to borrow) indicates to me volatility in the market and risk of ow...

Top of 2010 Josh Brown, writer of The Reformed Broker blog, this year again compiled a table of financial bloggers. Investment Postcar...

Warren's letter to investors was released last month.  My 1 share of Berkshire Class B stock has taken a big hit since September, pri...

  How Low Can It Go? Stocks Bear Market How Low Could it Go? :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting Free W...

For the billionaire who's stock portfolio now compels him or her to car-pool, comes a new 4-door Lambo sedan. Baby seat optional. ...

  Ugly chart. $XAU:GLD - SharpCharts from StockCharts.com

How many of you as investors have requested paper copies of annual reports? So the 3 of you that have, how many got beyond the glossy phot...

Kidz don't play wit 2 many knives Wish I listened to this before buying into the markets last week.

This article is from February, 2008.  It applies now more than ever after the FRE/FNM bailout. Strange that the 2 entities weren't ha...

  The breakdown left traders in Europe's financial capital in limbo as equities around the world rallied on the U.S. government...

  This is a good reason not to buy HP stock. Unless they charge for shipping! Leading the stupid shipping gang takes creative incompeten...

ING has started marketing a tax free account for Canadians... whenever the budget for 2008 gets approved. So what does this really mean? S...

Another one bites the dust - to the tune of $1 billion in uninsured deposits. On July 11, 2008, IndyMac Bank, F.S.B., Pasadena, CA was ...

Things are getting messy out there.  It used to be that $33k or $66k would have been okay for swap insurance.  Then it was $100k.  Risk-fre...

Berkshire's philosophy for financial metrics. CM: One metric catches people. We prefer businesses that drown in cash. An example of a ...

Financial investment advice for small amounts of money. For someone with $50+ billion dollars in the bank, I wonder what a small amount re...

Charlie Munger is one of my mentors.  Here's a good tidbit from the latest AGM for Berkshire that pretty much sums up the subprime cris...

I always enjoy a good conspiracy story.  This one takes the cake.  Put on your tinfoil hat... cause there's lots of it in this one. B...

Crystallex has been a speculative stock for years... the permit has always been "one month away". No longer...  10:39AM Crystall...

People following price in stock investments will appreciate this. University of Florida marketing professors Chris Janiszewski and Dan Uy ...

FinancialCalendar.com is the source of worldwide calendar data. There are similar year-to-year variations in the number of weekends, wit...

High-end graphics card GPUs like Nvidia's 8800 are hundreds of times more powerful than Intel Duo-Core CPUs.  So why not use them for so...

Large list of credit rating agencies.  According to Moody's site, the Chicago Fed index reveals a recession may end by Q3.  What did I s...

  Suncor's looking like it's hit some downward resistance from it's big drop and bigger recovery today.  Looks like a $92-$100...

"We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say 'It's not my child, not my community, not...

  ``There is a good analogy to Long-Term Capital,'' said Anthony Sanders , a former director of mortgage-bond research at Deutsche...

So what happens when all spreads become equal? Fire sale... High correlation is one of those weird things which pops out of the financ...

I wonder what would happen if you click HELP for explanation?  What do the red lines mean?  Can't be good. Mish has the scoop here. ...

  So whether you transfer $100,000 once or 10 transactions of $9,999, the Feds will have no trouble picking you out of a line up. Accord...

The Fed's offering 28-day term lending with bad mortgages as collateral, in a $200 billion dollar temporary bailout. Today's step...

Once upon a time, CDS premiums were in the $30k to $50k range. That was a long time ago... Credit default swaps on Lehman Brothers'(...

Ever since GLD, USO, MOO, PBW, PHO, etc. have come on the market, I have noticed an increase in the prices of underlying commodities.  Chica...

Gold hit $990/oz today before dropping back to $983... still on it's way to $1000? Gold, sitting at $975/oz is getting dangerously clo...

Gold, sitting at $975/oz is getting dangerously close to my "1 month or so" $1000/oz call. We can see this with the price of gol...

Volatility isn't always a bad thing. In the volatile market, I have about $700 more in my account than if the market was steady. Ei...

DANGEROUS VISUALIZATIONS In other cases, there may be good ways to visualize something but it is not clear that they should be visualized....

This speech resonates today's economic woes.  "We must Whip Inflation Right Now." from Gerald Ford, 1974. "A stable Ame...

As banks are unwilling to take risks or leave capital on the table, investors in 'cash-equivalent' preferred shares receive no bids...

I have turned into somewhat of a technical analyst, though I still have a lot to learn about when to sell and how to control losses.  Back ...

For the technical analyst, Excel is the #1 tool in the toolbox. A particular model I want to highlight is the EPS_Estimates_MultiSource...

 I wonder if they will offer job loss insurance for $2 per month, or Air Miles on their bonds if they end up paying 14% credit card-style in...