Predicting is difficult as many experts have learned from their own past experience..

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  fuller version of this article of mine appeard in retuers under this heading: The Meltdown’ What to do?   As a colleague in the office told me, if you want to fail and you are expecting a storm, fail first! So some of the “early birds” got protection, and then the protection vanished! The […]

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What a move by the US regulator and followed by the European regulator. Great. Now you cannot short sell. However, please remember you can always buy put options and make money. Unless regulators around the world allow free markets to play, there is no cribbing about how the market behaves. If somebody has short sold […]

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Welcome the Bear Markets! Although we saw a furious short-term rally last fortnight, we have entered into official bear markets territory as of early this month. (In the US bear markets are defined as a drop of 20% or more from a previous high.) This is a good thing. Smart and Legendary investors understand this. […]

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