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My first-ever feature-length article written for a print publication is now available online, and I hope you'll read it. The article, the title of which speaks for itself, ran in the February print edition of The American Spectator. Please click on the… more »

It's been an insane few days at work for me, as I've been trading, with something quite unlike success, the VIX. The VIX is the CBOE Volatility Index, and you can trade futures or options on it. So, stay with me here for a minute: The Standard and Poo… more »

I'm very pleased to let you know that the Colorado Springs Gazette ran (in their Sunday edition) an guest column by me which I wrote in response to Barack Obama's exclusive piece in that same paper calling for a Homeowner's Bill of Rights. Obama's soci… more »

Housing and employment are perhaps two of the most interconnected and politically important economic statistics. Thus, Wednesday's various housing-related data releases -- all of which are positive -- are a welcome sign of things to come, should Europ… more »

The SEC is suing the former CEOs of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for misrepresenting the percentages of those firms investment portfolios which were held in sub-prime loans. While Daniel Mudd and Richard Syron are being named individually, the firms wi… more »

In December, 2010, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission considered a rule change which would have prevented futures brokers from investing their firm's money or borrowed client money in foreign sovereign debt. Jon Corzine, then CEO of MF Global, lo… more »

On Monday, I sent the following note to a friend of mine who also pays close attention to financial markets (though he's not trading every day like I am): Now they're going to go from worrying about Greece to worrying about Italy...which is a m… more »

Following the passage of the "Durbin Amendment" to the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill -- an amendment which cut the fees that debit card providers can charge merchants per transaction -- Bank of America created a furor by announcing a $5 per month… more »

In July, Netflix stock neared $300 per share. Then they announced a price hike, raising both their DVD-by-mail and Internet-based streaming movie service from about $10 per month to about $16 per month. Their customers revolted, and the stock price wen… more »

Yesterday, I e-mailed a friend of mine who is also a trader and told him that I thought wherever the S&P 500 stock index futures were with 30 minutes to go in the trading day would point to where they would go in the last half hour.  In the fifteen… more »