A Stuttering Start

January 6th, 2010 admin

While Macro Man intended to unveil the second half of his 2010 non-predictions today, nature has conspired against him. A dozen hours of solid snow has left half a foot on the ground, leaving him stuck at home amidst the Surrey hills. (In fairness, the trains last night were buggered before it started snowing; good to see public transport employees looking ahead for once.) In any event, he left his notes on the second half of the list on his desk last night, and rather than try and hurriedly reconstruct the list this morning, he figured that his time would be better spent scribbling down a few ideas on early-year trading. There seem to be two predominant themes so fur this year: “everything goes up”, and “low volume.” Looking at the charts, …


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