The Bonddad Blog

I got this from Tim Knight's Slope of Hope blog. I still think this is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I'll be back...

From Bloomberg: High-yield, high-risk bond sales almost tripled to $2.38 billion this week, the most in seven months, as borrowers took adva...

From the WSJ: German economic growth posted its sharpest quarterly fall since 1987, as machinery investment and exports nose-dived, data fro...

The main issue on the weekly chart is that dollar prices have not risen to previous highs. They still could, but they haven't gotten th...

Click on all images for a larger picture. The main issue on yesterday's chart was the huge rally at the end that forced a bunch of short...

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Click on all images for a larger image The oil service holders trust is in the middle of a triangle consolidation pattern and has been for o...

From Bernanke's testimony yesterday: The Federal Reserve is engaged in an ongoing assessment of the effectiveness of its credit-related ...

Click for a larger image Not much has changed since last week's update. The market is still technically oversold, as indicated by the e...

Click for a larger image. The main issue today is the markets didn't go any lower after yesterday's swoon. The spy was up about .6%...

The markets tanked yesterday after Geitner announced the Treasury's plan to clean up the banks. The general complaint was a lack of spe...

From Marketwatch: Executives of Mead Johnson Nutrition Company will ring the opening bell to celebrate the baby formula maker's initial ...

Click on all images for a larger image After a major rally from 2007 to 2008 when prices increased about 2.5 times, prices have come down in...

Click for a larger image Prices are still within the consolidation pattern. However The daily chart shows a big and nasty drop. Prices tri...

It's been a long time since I have written anything about Dow Theory. Here is a rough explanation: A theory which says the market is in...

Start about two minutes in Here's the central point: I was there when the secretary and the chairman of the Federal Reserve came those d...

Click to get a larger image On the weekly chart, notice that prices have sold considerably from their peak at the beginning of this year. A...

Click on all images for a larger image The main story today is there really wasn't a major story. As the chart shows the market has ral...

Click on all images for a larger image From Reuters Nissan Motor Co said it would cut 20,000 jobs and joined a growing list of automakers wa...

From the WSJ: The administration's plans have evolved over the past several weeks as it has considered and discarded a host of ideas, wi...