Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Truth in all things. Even markets.

    Markets are like liars, they believe not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth. Part of that line is from the movie Three Days of the Condor, but it is true of people and what drives our bias to win, be right, and save face. The lie stock markets…

  • Central Banks Buy Indexes To Support World Markets

    Sovereign buy programs supporting market today as they apply the short squeeze to all those to challenge central bank authority.  Index futures are the easiest target as central banks support the indexes and to soften the impact for the other leg of the trade which is to be the raising of U.S. interest rates.  …

  • The Four Quarters of the Apoclypse

    The Four Quarters of the Apoclypse

    Data from CoverRisk.com

  • 2014 Ending So Are Trends

    CoverRisk.com will start recalibrating trend data as this trading year comes to an end.  That goes for the risk rankings as well for AAPL, BAC, GOOG, GS, IBM, MSFT, F, PFE.  Trends have obviously been strong for the indexes as CoverRisk established long positions in February well under 2013 closing levels. Valuations by various measures…

  • Record S&P500 Close

    Record S&P500 Close

    S&P500 record close today.  Beating the indexes is especially hard the last couple of years and John Bogle followers believe they are proving that passive index investing cannot be beat.  But the truth be told, many of us design models which consistently beat passive indexes, including this year, even when considering the equities have been…

  • Yellen: Soccer Mom

    Yellen has delivered her upside asset price spin once again.  The Fed is always caught defending stock prices, shepherding participation like a soccer mom protecting her not so talented child from the true nature of competition.  Down is unacceptable in a world where social interaction is delivered through device and applications molding negative event information…

  • Ruble, Putin, and Game Decisions

    Ruble troubles making markets a bit nervous.  While Russia is certainly taking some major economic hits,  Putin is in a game decision position where he can execute strategies which have a great impact on what the western nations are most concerned about, asset prices.  His accountability rests on a different set of power rules than…

  • Soveriegns and Feds vs Bears

    Bears bringing on the push lower late morning Chicago.  Momentum quants front running order flows keeping the offers coming for now although allegiance can be quickly turned to front running the bids.  Market shall see if the sovereign buy programs along with Fed’s whatever it takes attitude is up to the task of pushing back…

  • Oil Leaks, Markets Adjust

    Markets continue to worry about oil but we shall see how much the Fed on Wednesday will be the supportive element.   After Wednesday it will be a play to see if there is a continued oil leak and just what kind of year end buying shows up.  Current retracement from the December 5th all time…

  • Markets, Oil, and Trends

    It is certainly more fun when decision strategies  are short these indexes and it appears a continued run on the downside would go hand in hand with a further sell off in oil.  To many elements of the economic engine rely on higher oil prices which simply out way any gain the consumer may get…

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