by irdadmin | May 22, 2018 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Someone or some entity – likely a hedge fund – bought 4500 September $35-strike puts on XHB on Thursday last week when XHB was trading just above $39. That’s a $225,000 speculative bet that the XHB drops more than 15% by mid-September. This morning...
by irdadmin | Oct 25, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
To paraphrase the highly regarded fund manager and notable bear, John Hussman, you can look like an idiot before a Bubble pops or after it’s popped. I guess I’m squarely in the camp of looking like an idiot before the bubble pops. I might watch “The...
by irdadmin | Sep 28, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Existing Home Sales were released Wednesday and the NAR’s seasonally adjusted annualized rate metric was down 1.7% from July. July was down 1.3% from June. The NAR’s SAAR metric is at its lowest rate since last August. Naturally the hurricane that hit...
by irdadmin | Aug 23, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
There will be numerous excuses issued today by perma-bull analysts and financial tv morons explaining away the nearly 10% drop in new home sales. Wall Street was looking for the number of new homes, as reported by the Census Bureau, to be unchanged from June....
by irdadmin | Jun 23, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Headline monthly reporting of New Home Sales remained of no substance, short term, as seen most frequently here with massive, unstable and continuously shifting revisions to recent history, along with statistically – insignificant monthly and annual changes that...
