Author Archives: Chris Tate

There Are Good Rules And There Are Bad Rules

Whilst having breakfast I came across this blurb from an individual who is wanting to move from the sell side of the industry to the advisory/money management. These are his rules for investing – Industries are under-analyzed, relative to the market on the whole, and relative to individual companies. Spend time trying to find good…

How Do You Know?

Someone bounced me the following quote from a newsletter by Richard Russell who is regarded in the US as somewhat of a doyen of predictive technical analysis. The worst kind of market is a market that goes down on good news. As I write, optimism is in the air, and the Dow is down 95…

Its Friday

WTF?…Sauna Pants……

The Mayans just might be onto something – I have seen the coming apocalypse.

Active Investment

Dilbert on active portfolio management

I Know What We Are Doing At The Next Mentor Program

The Ultimate Tazer Ball league – where players use 300,000-volt Tasers as part of the game – is coming to Toronto. Think of it as a combination of football, rugby and stinging electric currents zapping you at every turn. Canada’s contribution, the Toronto Terror, is now beginning to form its six-person roster.

The Year So Far

An interesting year so far with all the usual suspects popping up. The one that interests me is Lumber since it can be viewed as a leading indicator in terms of economic recovery if you are into that sort of thing. You can see from the chart below that lumber collapsed before the US housing…