Bill Cara

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Thoughts about Fidel

Havana Cuba November 26, 2016 Being Canadians living full-time in Havana Cuba for almost 10 of the past 20 months, my wife and I have a perspective on life here that is not possible for in-and-out tourists to acquire. With the death of Fidel Castro on Friday night, I know

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A second market index and investment strategy from WMA Cara

As previously noted, on January 1, my portfolio management services will be combined with those of Dr. Owen Williams of Williams Market Analytics in a new South Carolina-based WMA Cara partnership. Together, we will be offering a much wider range of capital management services. As we all know, an unfortunate

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A new market index and related investment strategy from WMA Cara

In combination with Dr. Owen Williams of Williams Market Analytics, the new WMA Cara partnership will be offering a wide range of capital management services. Officially, WMA Cara starts business on January 1; however, Owen and I have already laid the groundwork for the partnership. Our first dually managed investment

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A letter to President Trump regarding the need for free capital markets

As you know, we the people created and developed our capital markets over many years to facilitate the process of fair and transparent price discovery among independent and objective investors and traders. For too many years now, this much-needed service has not been available and the nation is suffering because

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Bill Cara’s Thinking: November 12, 2016

Benjamin Graham said: “To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.” Graham was a value investor who studied, in detail, the companies worthy of investing. I never met Ben Graham, but at university where I was fortunate to

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Bill’s Current Thinking: November 9, 2016

The US election yesterday is an historic event that has massive repercussions for every part of what makes America. And, without further ado, I wish to make my own announcement, which is that I have a new partner. Together, Dr. Owen Williams and I will start 2017 as an American

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Bill’s Current Thinking: November 4, 2016

About Oil Prices Academians like Prof. Burton Malkiel have long argued that prices are random; however, as every professional trader knows, they are anything but. For almost 40 years, I argued that prices occurred in trends and cycles based on macroeconomic price drivers such as demand and supply, interest rates,

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Bill Cara’s Current Thinking: October 23, 2016

A crowded trade is when buyers have no cash remaining to buy more. Trades are uncrowded if they have cash on hand to push prices higher. So, when the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock with $4.9 trillion assets under management (AUM), says the world today is flush with cash —

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Bill’s Current Thinking: October 16, 2016

Based on the numerous mini-flash crashes that have been occurring recently in stocks, I have to think the next two years will be extremely volatile in capital markets. There have been many forecasts by so-called experts that 2014… 2015…2016… and on and on… will see the mother of all Bear

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Bill’s Current Thinking: October 12, 2016

Martin Armstrong, a favorite read of many people here, has written extreme views about the Presidential election, calling it People versus Capitol Hill. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/category/international-news/north_america/2016-u-s-presidential-election/ Ugly stuff, and clearly biased for Trump. Lot’s to come (I hope) re Libya’s $1.2 billion lawsuit against Goldman Sachs. Why are the major media publishers

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