- Back in November we talked about crude being in a down trend, but it looks like that could be in jeapordy on shorter time frames. This week crude hit a three-week high.
Oil Hits Fresh 3-Week Highs on US-China Trade talks, Dovish Central Bank Signals (The Street)
- A “flash crash,” conventionally, means that some stock or bond or currency or whatever drops by a large amount very quickly, and then recovers a lot of that amount very quickly. Are algos to blame for this?
The Computers Are Sorry About the Flash Crashes (Bloomberg)
- Something that basically did not exist last month, the word on the street is that the Federal Reserve is going to raise rates again in March.
Options Traders Are Putting a March Fed Rate Hike Back in Play (Bloomberg)
- The state of crypto in 2019.
Crypto Theses for 2019 (Medium)
- #WayBackWednesday. The stock market over the past 12 months is most closely correlated to a period running from October 1956 – October 1957.
This Chart Shows How Closely the Stock Market is Tracking a Selloff from the 1950s (MarketWatch)
- David and Goliath, who? This is a battle of two different kinds of beasts.
Apple and Microsoft Battle to be Largest Public Company (Investopedia)

