Dr. F.T. Dao
F.T. Dao is a private investor and recently left the corporate world for technical analysis of stock markets. He holds a PhD degree in physics and has done technical analysis of the market on the side for many years. He welcomes constructive discussion and can be reached at: [email protected] , [email protected]
Dr. F.T. Dao Articles
The equity markets rebounded more than nearly 3% last week, perhaps due to the Happy Mother’s Day weekend and the reopening of some stores. A number of Wall Street analysts are now forecasting the resumption of the equity bull markets,...
This article examines the major factors that caused the rapid decline of the Dow index. We select the 1929 Great Depression model for the study. As we mentioned in our earlier articles, our current crisis situation is most similar to the...
Mankind tends to repeat the same mistakes over and over in time. Often we don’t learn from our past mistakes in order to break the vicious cycles. In this article, we compare the current deep recession triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic...
All the world’s major central banks are engaged in unlimited currency printing, sometimes known as the “Helicopter money”. Normally, one would expect the rate of currency printing runs parallel to economic growth. Now we have economy...
This morning, the 1st quarter GDP number showed an unexpected large drop of -4.8% and with guidance of further large drop of -27.7%. This two quarter drops officially define a deep recession in 2020.
Recently I was asked by a very dear European friend of royal heritage regarding the direction of gold price. Now this gentleman is an astute investor in major global sectors. So I have to do proper research before I can answer him.
We observe that since 2018 there is increasing stock market volatility (VIX) not only in the DOW index but also in other global stock markets. One principal factor for the recent increasing volatility is the trade war between US and China...
Based on the technical cycle and long term historical ratio (Gold to Silver) analyses, I think the following case is very likely to occur for 2019: Gold price to reach $2000/oz and Silver price $60/oz.
With the election of Donald Trump as our President and his views espoused during last year’s election, there is expectation of dramatic changes in 2017 and beyond. His policies of protecting and enhancing manufacturing, together with...
The stock market DOW seems to go up almost every day with the election of Donald Trump as President. The big picture analysis given in our other article indicated otherwise. The “Trump” peak will soon meet the reality of being overvalued...