Category Archives: MN Gordon

Price Rebound Speculating for the Calculated Profit Seeker

Posted on February 18, 2014 by MN Gordon

Markets grow stranger by the day. The more you follow them the more befuddling they become. When it comes to the stock market’s day to day movements, there’s no sense to be had at all. It ambles about however it … Continue reading →

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Ventures Into Sophism

Posted on February 11, 2014 by MN Gordon

Last week, while everyone was busy watching the stock market wildly convulse about, something noteworthy occurred. Oil prices eclipsed $100 per barrel. Moreover, oil prices are up about 5 percent so far this year. “Oil futures rallied on Friday, tacking … Continue reading →

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How to Retire a Decade Early

Posted on February 7, 2014 by MN Gordon

The stock market’s got ants in its pants. After crashing 326 point on Monday, the DOW jumped up 72 points on Tuesday. Then, on Wednesday, after dropping 100 points early on, the DOW finished the day about where it started. … Continue reading →

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Pray for Rain

Posted on February 4, 2014 by MN Gordon

Here in the Golden State everything’s brown. The hillsides are dry and the scrubland vegetation’s a giant tinderbox. Sierra snowpack is only 12 percent of normal…the lowest it’s ever been since California began keeping records in 1960. The wildfires don’t … Continue reading →