Markets Shake and Jump, like riding a bull at The Hedge Funds Weblog

Over the Weekend the "Big Question" was being asked , is the bull market dead . Funny how a few hundred points make people soul search. Well the answer I see after 900 pts off the top is ..Yeah the Oct 2002 bull is dead..but it died up around 11000.So we are near the end of the sell off.When I say near,I mean we have seen 2/3 rds of the sell [...] Read More


Eilliott`s wave , Meets bloger short week in US Markets. at The Hedge Funds Weblog

There are many tools used by traders.... Most wont talk about them,and for a few reasons. One, every trader who looks for the best indicators and hopes they found one doesn't want anyone else to use it. It is like hunting for the fountain of youth or a gold mine. The hunters don't want a crowd watching. The Second reason is Technical tools are considered more voodoo then science, in most firms.They don't [...] Read More


Emerging Markets In The Headlines at The Hedge Funds Weblog

Wall Street Journal- Hedge fund JANA Partners has agreed to pay 1.01 billion yuan, or about $132 million, for the equity stake in Shenyang Machine Tool (Group) Co., China's largest lathe maker. Investment News- Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission is simplifying the licensing agreements for overseas hedge-fund managers looking to set up shop in the territory. Reuters- Schroders said on Wednesday its fund-of-hedge-funds division had opened a research office in Hong [...] Read More


The phoney bull market at Sox First

Is this a bull market or a bear market rally? Commentators like Clem Chambers at Forbes say the market rally seems to have all the hallmarks of a bull market."Another good augur for a bull market is that no one is calling this,'' Chambers writes. "You really know the end is nigh when everyone is calling out that the good times will go on forever. This is clearly not the [...] Read More


Brit Wins San Diego Red Bull Air Race For Second Time at The Aviation Weblog

Finley The Red Bull Air Race World Series left over 100,000 San Diegans with a crick in their neck and plenty to talk about for weeks to come. Paul Bonhomme from England took his second San Diego win in as many years. Defending champion Mike Mangold from the United States gave Paul a run for his money up until the very end, when he beat Mangold by nearly 2 seconds. Bonhomme [...] Read More