Cobra's Market View

updated this post another look at the iShares TSX 60 vs capped vs equal weight. adjusted for dividends - not quite. adjust for dividends is selected but the TSX doesn't provide total return info for these indexes i realize direction is the primary concern so what's the big deal Canadian investors wi...

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thanks, that worked

TSX 60 large caps. on an intraday basis at least the capped index making new low. iShares XIU has intraday low from Aug not broken

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is there an issue with some pics not being clickable, and being cut off at right side. Andasgy is the pic ending at Feb '13. and TSF is the pic ending at 3/3/14. other pics fine but these cant click these to expand. trying with two browsers. thanks

thanks Fehro!

lots of uncertainty for copper due to Chinese carry trades which are backed by physical copper. after currency devaluation recently would unwind cause dumpage and secondly how much demand was for non industrial use in the first place

one year uranium spiked at Nov 17, 2014 but this might be a single event driven outlier. since then three failed attempts to fall below 35 but on a non USD basis the price is rising. seasonality is positive but looking at the five year no idea

uranium tends to rise from Oct 1 to the end of February. this coincides with junior fall financing and winter drilling season and the hype that goes along with that. the price then pulls back along with drilling results and selling of shares at the end of hold period. maybe some higher lows on this ...

on Sept 19 Austin Galt reported suggesting a copper double bottom with a bear market rally to 2.78 or higher to 2.87. a week earlier Elliotwave reported a possible trend change but that may have become invalidated. on the Kitco charts, a price bottom was reached Aug 26 and inventory topped on Sept 1...

dont like the supply narrative. what about price leadership, can make money if the price leader lets you. seems more like politics and the dollar. completely unrelated but US is no longer exporting as many dollars for oil which is reverberating everywhere else, not in oil markets just in terms of re...

is the rising dollar is now built into some mining stocks? thinking about mid cap Canadians in the next few weeks. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-06/credit-suisse-tears-up-some-of-the-biggest-consensus-trades-in-the-market "Consensus: The U.S. dollar bull will continue in full f...

hi all, the TSX and TSXV are closed Monday - its FAMILY DAY, the day Ontarians spend in celebration of FAMILIES, sponsored by Johnson & Johnson, a FAMILY COMPANY its also Family Day in BC, Alberta and Sask but in Manitoba its Louis Reil Day, in PEI its of course Islander day which is spent being...

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Monday afternoon and Tuesday may see lower than usual activity due to a religious holiday

Why does the need for health care and jobs lead to the conclusion that less regulation is best. Proof that the regulated Canadian public system is better are the winter retirees who go to Florida but come back in spring to maintain eligibility for free care. A friend is going through chemo and radia...

hi folks, i hope this might be of interest: Capital Markets Institute @ Rotman Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 9:00am – 12:00pm - Event Hall (2F/South Building) Rotman School of Management, 105 St George St., Event Hall 2nd floor Toronto, Ontario TOPIC: High Frequency Trading: Devil or Angel.  MODERAT...

From Sentimentrader.com: "There used to be an old market adage about buying stocks on the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah and selling on Yom Kippur. That worked for awhile, but recent market history has proved that the opposite is a better bet. If we buy the S&P on Rosh Hashanah and sell on Y...

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Copper daily chart closed above 200 day average. Copper weekly chart closed above 50 week average.

last Sunday night / early Monday morning copper kissed the 200 week moving average (causing ding ding ding bells in my brain). might this be a piece of bottom evidence...

once again got it fixed. was on my side. thanks

hi, sorry i just fixed it on my end. occasionally i add an avatar if its especially annoying (sorry folks) and yesterday i guess i messed up when doing so and accidently blocked the whole downloads directory. again, sorry and please disregard.