Sunday, June 21, 2020

Quick Overview is up to date

Otherwise still working on updates.....


  • (Reuters) - Systemic racism and high unemployment levels among black and Hispanic Americans create a drag on the U.S. economy, Dallas Federal Reserve President Robert Kaplan said on Sunday.


  • Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, or TIPS,  dropped to a new low for the year. Now at -0.6%





  • Beijing  implements localized lockdowns on a second wave of COVID-19 – while the Bank of China is taking further steps to ease policy.

  • Top members of coronavirus task force advised against Trump's Tulsa rally.

  • Apple said it's going to close some stores…


  • The WHO warns the pandemic is accelerating…


  • Brazil reported a record one-day increase for any country in the world since the pandemic began of 54,771 new cases  and 1,206 new deaths, raising total to more than 1 million cases and 48,954 dead.



  • Goldman Sachs upped its 12-month gold forecast to $2,000 from $1,800, mentioning low interest rates and worries over currency debasement. The above TIPS chart probably  helps a bit.

  • Now Schwab etc. let you buy fractional shares – for $5. Perhaps fractional options trading (facetious) can be expected next.


  • From Spam to Corned Beef, Sales of Canned Meat AreBooming

  • 6/20/2020 World Climate Service Preliminary all-time record of 38.0°C (100.4°F) at Verkhoyansk in Siberia, and a contender for hottest on record within the Arctic Circle. Temperatures expected in 2100 appear to be arriving 80 years early…



Saturday, June 13, 2020

Quick Overview is up to date

Otherwise still working on updates.....




  •            Mnuchin said the U.S. shouldn’t shut down the economy again even if there is     another surge in coronavirus cases.

·      Jerome Powell said:
our principal focus though is on the state of the economy and on the labor market and on inflation. Now inflation of course is low, and we think it’s very likely to remain low for some time below our target…. that the central bank will keep pumping stimulus into the U.S. economy until its traumatized labor market has healed from the harm of the coronavirus pandemic. “We’re not even thinking about thinking about raising rates,”
·      On Tuesday, DR. Fauci said that COVID-19 is his “worst nightmare,” In a period of four months, it has devastated the whole world,” Fauci said. “And it isn’t over yet.”
·      Coronavirus cases in the U.S. are raising alarms as new infections push the overall count past 2 million and the DJIA drops by 1861 points (6.9%) or almost  $ 2 trillion on Thursday.
·      One pretty good site to tack this nasty thing   
·      Some countries that seem to be doing better than others are Hong Kong with a Death per 1 mill population of 0.5, Singapore 4, and New Zealand declares itself Covid Free
·      Some countries doing poorly with a death per 1 million population are Belgium at 832, UK 608, Sweden 477, and the US with 350.
·      Researchers find that over 1,000 metric tons of microplastic fall on 11 protected areas in the US annually, equivalent to over 120 million plastic water bottles. 
·      MoM Britain's economy shrank by a record 20.4% in April.·       

Sunday, June 07, 2020

Making a bit of progress. But remember many charts are still not up to date.

Daily  Breadth group is up to date. For example see NYSE Advance Decline line making new high.
Section 4 in Daily Chart Book

Futures point and figure chart group is up to date. For example see Rice P&F , what is going on?
Section 3 in Daily Chart Book 

Equity point and figure chart group is up to date. For example see Nasdaq P&F. Where to next?
Section 5 in Daily Chart Book

Saturday, June 06, 2020

Wednesday, June 03, 2020

InvestmentTools is still inactive. However I "may" become more active. After all these years of inactivity this will involve quite a bit of cleaning up.  So stay tuned.

In the mean time, I'm planning to post items I find of interest from time to time.

With this in mind, here for laughs and giggles, is the latest Fed Model. Perhaps you'll note that it sees the DJIA at $181,061. Sure go ahead and laugh, but realize that there is quite a bit of  reasoning behind the #.

Fed Model