4 Ways to Discover an Elephant Bull Market

4 Ways to Discover an Elephant Bull Market   The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes connecting the East to West for centuries. Named after the lucrative silk trade, the route was forged in 200 BCE by the Han dynasty. Its usefulness extended into th...

Why Gratitude Leads Down the Road to Riches

Why Gratitude Leads Down the Road to Riches     “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” —Mike Tyson   Soweto is a township in Johannesburg, South Africa that borders the city’s mining belt to the south. Its name is...

3 Strange Clandestine Operations

3 Strange Clandestine Operations     The Third Rail   During the ‘Death Throws” of Apartheid in South Africa in the early 90s a common term came about – Third Force or Third Rail. A seemingly invisible violent faction emerged during political pro...

2 Reasons Why the Odds are Stacked Against the Fed

2 Reasons Why the Odds are Stacked Against the Fed     We continue to hew to our favorite scenario of a market downturn in the intermediate future …   In 2 Painstaking Reasons the Market can expect a Midlife Crisis we show how total business sales have...

2 Painstaking Reasons the Market can expect a Midlife Crisis

2 Painstaking Reasons the Market can expect a Midlife Crisis     Could the markets be facing a stock market crisis? In our last market note (How to Unleash a Dragon) we commented that a rally in March was expected given the degree of selling in January and ...

Bear Market Investing Strategies to Unleash a Dragon

Bear Market Investing Strategies to Unleash a Dragon   Read about how our strategy shifted to one of capital preservation using bear market investing strategies versus capital growth. Mounting macro headwinds that, in our estimation, shifted probabilities toward...

Why a Southern Hemisphere Trip Changes Your Investment Perception   Thursday, October 01, 2015   They rent the babies a friend told me!   I just returned back from a 2 week trip to South Africa with my youngest daughter. I spent all my time in Johannes...

Bear Market Investing Strategies to Unleash a Dragon

Read about how our strategy shifted to one of capital preservation using bear market investing strategies versus capital growth. Mounting macro headwinds that, in our estimation, shifted probabilities towards a pending equity bear market. We executed this strategy by...