Posts made in May, 2018

Credit Squeeze

Posted By Darren Winters on May 28, 2018

Credit is tightening and it would not be eye-deceiving to suggest that a 2018 credit squeeze, similarly to the one experienced almost a decade ago in 2008, is a potential black-swan meandering the lake of risk. A credit squeeze could be imminent, according to market watchers who follow the “credit cycle”, which is the phase of access to credit by borrowers. The beginning of a credit cycle is characterized by funds being relatively...

Bear Markets Have Become Obsolete

Posted By Darren Winters on May 21, 2018

Could bear markets have become obsolete in the post 2008 financial crisis era? In the new age of financial engineering and algorithmic trading zero gravity in prices has become a reality. Zero gravity is making bear markets obsolete. Market cycles have merged into a timeless bull market where prices either float or head upwards in an emptiness of seemingly infinite central bank liquidity. So have bear stock markets become obsolete...

Emerging Market Crisis

Posted By Darren Winters on May 19, 2018

An emerging market crisis is brewing all the stars are aligned, the global economy has peaked, trade war, sanctions, and tariffs have entered the diction, central bank rate hikes are underway and the era of central bank currency creation is being curtailed. So could the mother of all emerging market crisis now be on the horizon? Emerging markets have a higher cliff to fall from this time around because the greatest monetary...

Bigger black swan events

Posted By Darren Winters on May 15, 2018

Bigger black swan events could be on the horizon. The 2008 financial crisis was considered a black swan, an event outside the “ mass mind matrix” that nobody was able to forecast. Bigger black swan events could be lurking in today’s financial market, the world is in a tangle. A US-China trade war is looming, there is a tax war too. There is an ongoing geopolitical crisis in the middle east, Iran/Syria (internal link) with the...

NASA spin-off technologies tend to be a good bet

Posted By Darren Winters on May 11, 2018

Investing in tomorrows billionaire dollar tech unicorn can sometimes be down to luck, a lottery law of averages. Nevertheless, investors can improve their odds of picking a tech unicorn (and hugely prospering in the process) by investing in companies that have NASA spin-off technologies. NASA has been transferring technology to the private sector since 1964, through its Technology Transfer Program. Early publication listing NASA...