You will never retire. Get used to it. The last time we started ranting about the evils of the Federal Reserve’s Quantitative Easing program (QE) it was about how the Fed was pushing 50- and 60-year-olds out of the workforce and into “retirement” by creating a business environment that makes it more profitable to manipulate a company’s finances than actually make stuff and sell it. Now here’s the rest of the story: the same process that is pushing you or someone you know out of a job is going to make … Continue reading →

 By Nat February was a terrific month for the stock market, but kind of crummy for everything else. Now we have to face the ides of March, when the weather changes and the world prepares for a reset. For investors, the future is not likely to be nearly so pleasant as the past. The real world vs. the market. In the real economy, February was a bust. The fundamental economic reports that are supposed to drive the market were almost universally dismal. US gross domestic product, up 5% in Q3, … Continue reading →

Outcomes – Jan. 13 Nat’s inflection points, called in yesterday’s trading plan, caught the top and bottom of today’s move very precisely, and captured almost 50 points for anyone trading her calls from the Daily Treading Plan. In the mini-futures, a 50-point move is worth $2,500… for each contract. Her second sell number was just a couple of points from the high of the day, and her second support level was just a couple of points above the bottom. Here’s the intraday chart (five-minute bars):   … Continue reading →