All Blog Posts by Matt Mccracken

I stopped to fill up my car at an HEB in San Antonio and, while I was paying $1.99 for gas, I saw the following and thought I must have just traveled back to 1998. A pay telephone. At a gas station. I hadn’t seen one of those in years. And it...Read more

Not many people, including myself, expected the upset last night. One guy did. And he seems to always get these things right some how. I have followed several elections in both the US and Europe and everytime he takes the opposite view of the polls...Read more

We all know Wall Street desperately wanted Hillary to be President and tried using scare tactics saying the market would plunge 10+% in the event of a Trump victory. And futures are down, but no where near the 10% they promised. The thinly veiled...Read more

After how many years, I have no idea, natural gas is finally trading in backwardation. This means the price of contracts expiring far into the future are actually trading at a discount to the spot price (or at least contracts expiring in the near...Read more

Should it bother us that the adjective "almighty" is used to describe the US dollar. In America, is the dollar really more almighty than the actual Almighty? Here is an article just posted by the "omniscient" financial media explaining just how...Read more

CNBC headline story of the day... "Dollar forms bullish 'golden cross' - here's how to trade it" The article explains how whenever a 50 day moving average of an index's price crosses over the 200 day moving average, it's a signal the index is going...Read more