QUESTION: Dear Mr Armstrong … An associate emailed me and asked me if I knew what PPT was? I told him …. I did not and to elaborate. He emailed me back saying PPT = plunge protection team! I then googled it and it seems some people actually believe that the fed/US gov. have some mystical organisation […]

  The dark cloud on the horizon may be far different from what traditional analysis anticipates. The degree of plagiarism with so many people now copying what our forecasts, claiming they are their’s, and touting cycles without ever mentioning our model is really amazing. People are sending in examples from all over the world, and now there […]

Of course those biased toward gold will relay the rally as big volume, as if this were some sort of fresh buying that warrants cheering when in fact it is a short-cover rally. This is the bounce our computer has projected without bias or passion, minus the hyperbole. We can see that the Energy Models […]

The next two months going into September will be both interesting and critical. The NASDAQ Composite made new highs in July, but the S&P500 and the Dow Jones Industrials failed to exceed May highs. The general consensus is that there will be a rate hike in September and another in December, so if we back-off from […]

The French elite are now calling for a German exit from the euro as a solution since the rest of them are heading into Marxist la-la land. The Greek crisis has set in motion severe strains within the EU economy, far worse than the press or the politicians are willing to admit. The French elites see only two possibilities: there […]

The problem with gold has been the gold promoters who use sophistry to sell their product, convincing so many people to lose everything they invest. The hate mail has started again, claiming I am “bashing the gold bugs” as if this were a sport. Sadly, this illustrates how there will always be those who go down with […]

  QUESTION: Martin, Thank you for staying alive and moving forward with Socrates!. I am a big fan of yours. I read your blog everyday and I have reserved to attend your Princeton conference this year. I hope I make it as I think it will be good for me to hear you in person […]

This is the end of an era. The Chicago trading pits have closed after 167 years. What is a shame about this is that great traders need the “feel” and you just do not get that from looking at flashing screens. It is like playing chess against a great opponent vs. the computer or flying […]

Norse Corp’s Live View of Cyber Attacks The FBI testified that they want backdoors to all encryption. The problem with granting the government such access so that no one can have private data means that hackers will also find a way in. You cannot create exclusive access for anyone with backdoors. Government did just fine […]

QUESTION: Dear Martin, Do you expect all markets to align with the 2015.75 turning point (or the few months following, due to false moves)? Would, in this case, such an alignment correspond with high/low reversals in trend, and all markets would then align to the ECM into 2020? Thanks in advance SB ANSWER: The next three […]