Mike Landfair

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Adam Hewison at MarketClub is going to be doing something a little bit different today as he analyzes the forex markets. Examining the forex markets is nothing new, but he has never gone through 13 pairs of cross rates on the fly. He also shows you a quick and effective way to analyze the dollar index at the same time.

In his new video he looks at all the major cross rates in a way to quickly tell if you should be in or out of the market.

He’s basing his forex observations on the “Trade Triangle” technology and will gladly show you how he applies them to any currency cross rate. It is a quick and easy lesson that will show you exactly what he looks for when he’s going to go into a market.

The video is free to watch and there is no need to register. I would love to get your feedback about this video on our blog.

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Caterpillar CEO James Owens admitted Wednesday at his company's annual stockholder meeting that the carbon caps his company supports could hurt the U.S., U.S. heavy industry and Caterpillar itself.

Owens made the admission in response to questioning by Tom Borelli, director of the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project, who attended the meeting on behalf of the Free Enterprise Action Fund.

Owens told Borelli and stockholders that the U.S. and Caterpillar will be harmed if carbon caps are adopted by the U.S. but not adopted by the rest of the world.

The key industrial nations of China and India are extremely unlikely to adopt carbon caps.

Borelli also asked Owens how Owens would be held accountable if Caterpillar's lobbying led to "a regulatory avalanche leaving the U.S. in an uncompetitive situation." Owens responded by telling Borelli to just sell his stock.

I am continually puzzled by seemingly intelligent people who vote against their own interests. Owens is literally, flipping you off. You, the workers of America, are being sold a bill of goods about cap-and-trade, presumably to protect the environment from CO2 and (gasp) global warming. Nevermind that the connection between the rise of CO2 and global temperature rise has been severed.

To vote for Cap-and-Trade knowing your business will suffer as will business in America, is committing suicide. How dare this man, who has to know how Obama works by now, put his shareholders last.
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The Traders Blog has a warning about this market written by Tony of KhronoStock.com.

He writes that the four most important factors that caused the Great Depression are present in the economy today. In the most scathing attack on the government's reaction to the crisis he writes:

Perhaps the major difference between the current economic recession and the Great Depression is the unprecedented intervention from the Federal government and the Federal Reserve. However, it is our view that such actions will only prolong the inevitable 2nd Great Depression rather than solving it.

He warns that the massive shorting that led to the rally since March, has now shifted with investors believing the worst is over. That road will be littered with heartbreak.

Please enjoy the article and comment below, email me at landfair3554@comcast.net or follow me @movermike
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UPDATE On Gold And The USD

May 14th 2009 17:54
Let's review where we are. The USD has broken through it's last major low, Silver has broken out as has Gold and now we are getting all sorts of experts warning of inflation.

China was the first to worry about its U.S. Dollar holdings. Afraid that their holdings will decline further in value, it has stopped buying Treasurys and has added over 450 tons of Gold to reserves, at the same time indicating it wants to increase that amount to 5,000 tons of Gold, a five fold increase


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British Pound, Making Moves?

May 9th 2009 15:13
British Pound


Adam Hewison last looked at the British Pound (GBP) on April 8th, and produced a short video explaining why he thought that this market was ready to move


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USO & Crude Oil On The Move

May 9th 2009 15:03
Offshore drilling rig. (Credit: Minerals Management Service, US Department of the Interior)

Offshore drilling rig.
(Credit: Minerals Management Service, US Department of the Interior


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UPDATE On SLV, GLD And USD

May 4th 2009 17:35
It appears that we have a breakout in Silver and the ETF SLV. SLV has broken out of a reverse head and shoulders bottom and looks like we are going to be testing the highs. The weekly chart is particularly exciting. It's breaking out of a flag formation, a continuation formation and the target would be back to the highs of $19 to $20. (See Chart).

The Gold RTF GLD is lagging silver, but the chart formation looks similar. GLD Needs to trade above 90 for a breakout to signal a test of its highs. (See Chart)
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The Canary In The Coal Mine

April 25th 2009 16:18
S&P:Gold


I don't know whose FaceBook site I'm on, but this chart tells us everything we need to know to survive the next 10 to 15 years. The Government doesn't want you to know this, and seems content to have you continue losing money by suppressing Gold so you don't hear the alarms sounding


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When Ineptitude Reigns

March 26th 2009 05:34


Imagine, our Treasury Secretary Geithner saying he's open to the idea that the Chinese floated about needing a new currency. The fools are running the insane asylum. After years of our government officials talking about our desire for a strong dollar, it has come to this


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Analyzing The S&P And Oil

March 20th 2009 01:13
Yesterday, I pointed out that there was a train coming at us. Today, I invite you to take a look at the great video Adam Hewison of Market Club has made a analyzing the S&P and Crude Oil charts. This WILL be the last video with the old charts. You'll soon see a huge change in the charts used in the videos shortly!

I've previewed the new charting system from Market Club. It is fantastic and even easier to use than before. Try it for 30 days for free. Do your own work to protect your assets. Few will have as much interest in you staying solvent as you do


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Recent Comments

Comment by Mike Landfair
on The Train That's Coming!

March 20th 2009 05:16
ZZMike, Actually when the FED buys bonds it floods the system with dollars. Maybe the Chinese are selling.

Comment by Mike Landfair
on ARE THE CONSUMERS TO BLAME?

September 23rd 2008 05:15
Cibbuano, think what you want. The point of my post is:

"So what! Are we taxpayers supposed to rush in and make everyone whole? I say to heck with them all. I don't have much sympathy for victims. I think everyone should have the right to fail."

Comment by Mike Landfair
on How to make a career as a writer and get published

September 23rd 2008 05:06
I want to be a freelance writer and earn enough so that I will be able to write from somewhere warm with my toes in the sand.

Your first point, THE POWER OF CLARITY, cuts right to the heart of my problem. I have been vague about coming up with topics for querys. By the end of this month. I will have a list of topics and by the end of October, I will have submitted five queries to magazines.

Comment by Mike Landfair
on ARE THE CONSUMERS TO BLAME?

September 23rd 2008 00:31
I think there were a lot of borrowers that knew the papers they signed were fraudulent, yet they signed anyway.

I think there were a lot of brokers that made a ton of money winking at the rules and allowed or encouraged those borrowers to sign, and there were a lot of banks that loaned money knowing the papers were fraudulent..

So what! Are we taxpayers supposed to rush in and make everyone whole? I say to heck with them all. I don't have much sympathy for victims. I think everyone should have the right to fail.

Comment by Mike Landfair
on Paris preview: Saab 9X Air Concept

September 21st 2008 03:35
I drive a 1999 Saab now, and I would surely trade up to this. I like how Saab has pushed the wheels out to the corners like Mini Cooper and the Volvo C30

Comment by Mike Landfair
on The Oil Bull Resumes

August 21st 2008 23:27
Market Newbie, I enjoy your blog. It inspires me to write.

I don't agree with everything you say, but who does. You had a kernel of truth about the market and I took it in an another direction. If there's controversy, it only increases our readership and maybe we both learn something.

Thanks for stopping by.

Comment by Mike Landfair
on A GULLIBLE MARKET

August 21st 2008 05:30
Careful with your prognostications, Punk, my studies show that OIl is still trading above its long term trendline. Major support is at $100 to 105.

As for Gold, its trendline is in no danger of being broken. In fact the last major pullback was 22% and that's about where we are at this time. Painful, but no big deal.

Comment by Mike Landfair
on Just In: Russia ends its operation in Georgia

August 12th 2008 17:43
I made an illusion to Sudenteland, and was told that the comparison is not valid. Here's what US Army Col (ret) alph Peters, author of 23 books, including the new adventure-travel memoir, Looking for Trouble, which features several chapters of his experiences in Georgia and the Caucasus, said on the subject:

"Oh, and as for those Russian claims that it "had to protect its citizens," well, the Russians simply handed out passports to South Ossetians over the years in a de facto annexation the world ignored. Those "Russian citizens" are about as Russian as the citizens of Tulsa, Oklahoma."

He also writes about the oil pipeline:
As of this writing, at least a dozen attempts have been made to hit the crucial Caspian-Black Sea gas pipeline from the air-without success thus far.

This shows how inept was the performance of the air force, Putin's pride.

NATO should step up to the plate, BUT they are alll or soon to be dependent on Russia for oil and natural gas. It doesn't give them much leverage. We could freeze Russian assets in banks???

As far as leaping into the headlines quickly, I've read you don't do what Russia did without a lot of planning, so someone on ourside was caught with his pants down, or maybe we allowed Russia to fix its problem and they will allow us to fix our Iran problem.

Russia, BTW, doesn't seem too concerned about collateral damage!

I reject this premise:
"The expectation of unconditional NATO support for Georgia actions due to its loyalty to the West may have been the biggest mistake that the Georgian President made. When sent tanks he possibly saw Russia as a sleeping bear too tired be a world power in comparison to his new best friend the USA. Unfortunately this perception was wrong and Russia immediately retaliated with over whelming force."

What just happened? According to U.S. Army Col. (ret.) Ralph Peters' whose latest book, "Looking For Trouble," takes readers through Georgia, "The Russians ordered North Ossetian militiamen, backed by Russian "peacekeepers" and mercenaries, to provoke the Georgians earlier this month.

Weary of the Russian presence on their soil, the Georgians took the bait. President Mikheil Saakashvili ordered his US-trained military to respond.

That was the excuse the Kremlin wanted. Immediately, a tank brigade from Russia's 58th Army (the butchers of Chechnya) crossed the international border into Georgia."

We should be sticking up for the Georgians. This was engineered by Russia to put them in their place and send notice to anyone else thinking of joining NATO.