Technical analysis is a key component of the stock market on a number of scales. Traders can use it to pick good stocks to trade and to predict and forecast future stock prices. It can also be used to identify entry and exit points which enables good returns. In this blog post, you are… Continue reading Why Technical Analysis Is So Important To Day Traders
Confessing to a Cat? Satanic Panic? Bodily Mortification? Baptismal Tea? & More Weird Questions
Podcast: Download MYS134: Merry Christmas! Jimmy Akin is answering more weird questions, including whether an insane person confessing sins to a cat could result in forgiveness; whether one could baptize with tea in emergency; and whether some bodily mortification is spiritually healthy. Get all new episodes automatically and for free:Subscribe using the RSS feed | Subscribe using Apple Podcasts… Continue reading Confessing to a Cat? Satanic Panic? Bodily Mortification? Baptismal Tea? & More Weird Questions
A Random Walk through the English Language
Here’s a game Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory, invented in 1948. He was trying to model the English language as a random process. Go to your bookshelf, pick up a random book, open it and point to a random spot on the page, and mark the first two letters you see. Say they’re… Continue reading A Random Walk through the English Language
Origin Story: How Did the Coronavirus Emerge?
President Joe Biden has called for the U.S. intelligence community to “redouble efforts to determine the origins of the COVID-19” pandemic. This mandate is based on a new U.S. intelligence report that indicated several of the lab workers at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick in autumn 2019 “with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19… Continue reading Origin Story: How Did the Coronavirus Emerge?
On Praying and Fighting Against Evil
One of the most formative experiences in my own journey with the Lord was an opportunity I had to go to the Holy Land on a twenty-four-day pilgrimage for seminarians with the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre US Eastern Lieutenancy in July – August 2011. During our second tour of the city of Jerusalem… Continue reading On Praying and Fighting Against Evil
Markets Have Bought The Fed’s “Transitory” Narrative Hook, Line, & Sinker
Authored by Jesse Felder via TheFelderReport.com, April’s inflation figures came in hotter than expected and [today’s hotter than expected CPI] only adds to that trend. As a result, you might think that markets may begin to price in an inflationary consensus. You would be wrong. As Nordea’s Mikael Sarwe tweeted last week: 🇺🇸 I note… Continue reading Markets Have Bought The Fed’s “Transitory” Narrative Hook, Line, & Sinker
New SEC Rule Effectively Bans Retail Investors from the OTC Gray Market
The SEC just disrupted a niche corner of the stock market and their involvement could potentially lock retail investors out of areas of significant opportunity. To put it shortly, the SEC is not allowing broker-dealers to quote non-reporting or “dark” companies. In other words, if a company doesn’t report timely financial statements and reports… Continue reading New SEC Rule Effectively Bans Retail Investors from the OTC Gray Market
Alien Demons, Alien Souls, Cremated Incorruptibles, Unintentional Indulgences & More Weird Questions
Podcast: Download MYS135: Happy New Year! Jimmy Akin is answering more weird questions, including whether indulgences can be retroactively applied; if UFO aliens could be demons; what happens to cremated saints who should be incorruptible; and whether aliens could have souls. Get all new episodes automatically and for free:Subscribe using the RSS feed | Subscribe using Apple Podcasts |… Continue reading Alien Demons, Alien Souls, Cremated Incorruptibles, Unintentional Indulgences & More Weird Questions
How Computationally Complex Is a Single Neuron?
Our mushy brains seem a far cry from the solid silicon chips in computer processors, but scientists have a long history of comparing the two. As Alan Turing put it in 1952: “We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.” In other words, the medium doesn’t matter,… Continue reading How Computationally Complex Is a Single Neuron?
Electoral Reform, Trust & the Future of Post-Election Demagoguery
The second of two parts (to read Part 1, click here) Both parties made significant contributions to the post-election conflicts that culminated in the Capitol riots on Jan. 6. The Republican contribution was obvious: the demagoguery of Donald Trump and the willingness of so many Republicans to associate themselves with his claims. The Democratic contribution… Continue reading Electoral Reform, Trust & the Future of Post-Election Demagoguery