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29 Aug: BRK/B

Berkshire Hathaway is a holding company owning subsidiaries engaged in various business activities that acts much like an ETF. Its segments include Insurance, railroad system, Energy, which includes regulated electric and gas utility; Manufacturing, Service and retailing, aviation pilot training and various retailing businesses, and Finance and financial products, transportation equipment, manufacturing and leasing, and furniture leasing.

29 Aug: AMD

AMD is a global semiconductor engaged in offering x86 microprocessors / accelerated processing unit (APU), chipsets, discrete graphics processing units (GPUs) and professional graphics, and server and embedded processors and semi-custom System-on-Chip (SoC) products and technology for game consoles. The Company’s segments include the Computing and Graphics segment, and the Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom segment.

28 Aug: SP500 Weekly

The S&P 500 Index, or the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, is a market-capitalization-weighted index of the 500 largest publicly-traded companies in the U.S. It is not an exact list of the top 500 U.S. companies by market capitalization because there are other criteria to be included in the index. The index is widely regarded as the best gauge of large-cap U.S. equities.

26 Aug: USD Weekly

DXY is the USD Index which is a basket of currencies of the largest currencies relative to the USD: EUR, GBP, JPY, AUD, CAD and a few smaller others. This collection of currencies makes up the bulk of global currency reserves and is an accurate barometer of the relative performance of the US Dollar.

26 Aug: EURUSD

The Currency Pair EUR/USD is the shortened term for the euro against U.S. dollar pair, or cross for the currencies of the European Union (EU) and the United States (USD). The currency pair indicates how many U.S. dollars (the quote currency) are needed to purchase one euro (the base currency). Trading the EUR/USD currency pair is also known as trading the “euro.” The value of the EUR/USD pair is quoted as 1 euro per x U.S. dollars. For example, if the pair is trading at 1.50, it means it takes 1.5 U.S. dollars to buy 1 euro.

26 Aug: Gold/Silver Ratio

The gold-silver ratio, also known as the mint ratio, refers to the relative value of an ounce of silver to an equal weight of gold. Put simply, it is the quantity of silver in ounces needed to buy a single ounce of gold. Traders can use it to diversify the amount of precious metal they hold in their portfolio.

26 Aug: Gold/DXY Ratio

The “Global Price” of Gold, this ratio compared Gold to the entire basket of USD currencies.  As I have proved earlier this year Gold had already broken the DXY ratio relationship, and this usually happens at major peaks of this ratio (hence why it breaks).  If you notice this peak was at a lower level of 22:1