Saudi Index leaves Investors Shell Shocked

The Saudi markets have lost more than half its value since the beginning of the year. How much more pain can they bear? Looks like there is scope to fall by at least another 12%. Check out this chart.

Stay short in Sterling for now

The Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, has said today that the UK is probably in recession now and 2009 is going to be difficult. He also asserted that he stands ready to cut interest rates again if that is required. Clearly, we need to remain short in...

S&P 500 and Citi

If my analysis of S&P500 (and Nasdaq) suggest that we will get a 5th wave move down, then how can I recommend buying Citi from $11.54? This is a valid question, and any good analyst should have thought that through. What I did, instead, was to look at the index...

Dubai Index

On 15th October, when Dubai was trading at 3427 I warned that we could see 2760 if it started to come off quickly. Today it reached 2343, and a lot of investors are worried. A safe level to buy will be around 1860 in the index. As always, when one is trying to pick a...

SNP500 revisited

On November 3, a day before the US election, I wrote that the S&P index was still in a downtrend and we should use any recovery to the prior high of 1045 to get out of longs. I also suggested that should we reach 1136, we should turn short there. As it turned out,...