Archive for November, 2011

• Regret
  Posted by Robert Sinn on November 30th, 2011 at 7:49 pm, Comments: 0

  Today was the kind of day that fills the majority of market participants with regret. People are asking themselves questions such as: Why didn’t I [...]

• The Euro is Done
  Posted by Robert Sinn on November 30th, 2011 at 1:38 pm, Comments: 0

  This is the current front cover of The Economist:   This is the front cover of Der Spiegel (Und jetzt? translates to “And now?”):   [...]

• Trying to Make Sense of the Hysteria
  Posted by Robert Sinn on November 30th, 2011 at 11:11 am, Comments: 0

  I have a million thoughts this morning, all of which I won’t be able to express in a short blog post but I figured I [...]

• Do the Financials Even Matter Anymore?
  Posted by Robert Sinn on November 29th, 2011 at 7:36 pm, Comments: 0

  This afternoon’s mass downgrade of the financials by Standard & Poor’s caused a small dip after-hours in $ES_F $XLF etc. However, it was certainly nothing [...]

• Yellen Chides Washington
  Posted by Robert Sinn on November 29th, 2011 at 12:01 pm, Comments: 0

  Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen just issued a speech which addresses many key issues facing the US & global economies – The heart of the [...]

• Elite Bonds?
  Posted by Robert Sinn on November 29th, 2011 at 7:00 am, Comments: 0

  Der Spiegel is out with a story that Germany is considering issuing “elite bonds” along with other “strong” eurozone (EZ) member states Austria, Luxembourg, Holland, [...]

• The Low Volume Reset
  Posted by Robert Sinn on November 28th, 2011 at 5:20 pm, Comments: 0

  Today’s market “reset” on news that the eurozone will probably still be around in 10 days left many market participants clueless as to which trade [...]

• What Changed Overnight?
  Posted by Robert Sinn on November 28th, 2011 at 10:51 am, Comments: 0

  Saturday I showed two very simple probability weighted scenarios for determining the expected value of the S&P 500 ($ES_F, $SPY, $SPX). This morning market participants [...]

• Sage Weekly Letter
  Posted by Robert Sinn on November 26th, 2011 at 10:48 am, Comments: 0

  What Happened to the Berlusconi Rally? Less than two weeks ago I was at the swank Fontainebleau hotel on South Beach attending the Bank of [...]

• Heavy
  Posted by Robert Sinn on November 25th, 2011 at 1:16 pm, Comments: 0

  Heavy is probably the best word to describe today’s equity market action: The dollar ($DX_F, $UUP) went out at the highs and equities ($ES_F, $SPY) [...]