The Bonddad Blog

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Consider the news from this week. From Zillow: Almost one-third of U.S. homeowners who bought in the last five years now owe more on their m...

Big news in dollar land -- we have a trend reversal (which was first called by Corey over at Afraid to Trade ) Notice the following: -- Pric...

Swamped at work today, so this will be a quick one. I'll be using the daily chart. notice the following: -- The uptrend that started in...

From Marketwatch: The U.S. trade deficit narrowed by 4.1% to $56.8 billion in June on record exports and a decline in non-oil imports, the C...

For reasons unknown the St. Louis Federal Reserve has yet to update their real retail sales graph. So I pilfered Calculated Risks: This cha...

The P&F chart is very revealing. Looking carefully at the rally that led to the recent top in oil prices we see a clear pattern of risi...

I'm going to use the daily chart today in order to clear out the noise of the day to day chart. Notice the following: -- Prices are stil...

The financial sector stands at the middle of the economy. They take individual savings and investment, pool it, and then make loans or unde...

First, let's start with a P&F chart as this type of chart shows pure price movement. This will give us an idea of where we really ...

The market has been in a rally for the last week, so now's a good time to take a look at the longer minute charts to see what they look ...

From Bloomberg: Banks' losses from the U.S. subprime crisis and the ensuing credit crunch crossed the $500 billion mark as writedowns sp...

From Bloomberg: Banks' losses from the U.S. subprime crisis and the ensuing credit crunch crossed the $500 billion mark as writedowns sp...

Corey at Afraid to Trade is one of the best chart readers on the web. His analysis of the dollar's recent moves is very insightful and...

From Bloomberg: Almost one-third of U.S. homeowners who bought in the last five years now owe more on their mortgages than their properties ...

Let's start with the "super-long" view to get an idea about where we are in the big picture. Prices meandered from 2003-2005 a...

The market opened a bit lower today, briefly falling through the 50 minute SMA. But it quickly recovered and moved through the 50, 20 and 1...

From Bloomberg: U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said there are no plans to use his new authority to inject capital into mortgage compa...

From the UK's Telegraph: The United States remains firmly in an economic recession in spite of economic growth figures to the contrary, ...

Let's start with a really long-term look at the market -- a 5 year look. This will give us an indication of where we are in the bull/be...