Frank Barbera Bio & Archive
Financial Sense Market Commentator
BIO
Frank Barbera, CMT is currently the editor of the Gold Stock Technician (GST) Newsletter which originally entered publication in 1993. As editor of the GST Letter, Mr. Barbera employs a technical indicators to bring market timing to bear on the highly volatile gold stocks. Included in last year's widely popular book, Master Traders: Strategies for Superior Returns from Today’s Top Traders, the tools employed by The Gold Stock Technician have been tested going back many years.
In addition to writing the Gold Stock Technician Newsletter, Mr. Barbera has also managed private equity capital for a number of years, most notably for the Los Angeles-based Caruso Fund where we earned in excess of 25% to 30% returns during the last bear market.
In his role as a hedge fund manager, Frank sought to regularly trade precious metals, energy, currencies along with the broad stock market indices. Frank began his career
in the early 1980s working with Financial News Network in Los Angeles and later, as the ‘on air’ analyst for KWHY TV. Frank's technical work on Gold and Gold Stocks is considered among the best in the industry and he has spoken at a number of investment conferences and been quoted widely in the Financial Press. Readers interested in subscribing to The Gold Stock Technician can contact Mr. Barbera via email.
WRAPUP ARCHIVES
11/18/2008 Upside Reversal as TBTF Oversold Extremes Abound
11/11/2008 Seeking Neutral Ground
11/04/2008 A Welcome (if only temporary) Return to Stability
10/28/2008 Pizza, Bonds, Burgers and Yen
10/21/2008 Getting Ready for "The Turn" in the Dollar
10/14/2008 The Top 10 Hints of Global Reflation
10/07/2008 Key Signals and the CDS Cascade
09/30/2008 Financial Upheaval & the Ring of Fire
09/23/2008 Pondering the Last Wrench in the Tool Kit: Will RTC(B) contain CDS(R)? We wonder
09/16/2008 What Next for AIG and the Markets?
09/02/2008 Scoping Out the Climate for the Next BIG Stock Market Top
08/26/2008 US Greenback - The Path to Monetization
08/19/2008 GSE Woes and More Fed Easing Ahead
08/12/2008 Commodity Correction - Coming Into an Important Bottom?
08/05/2008 A Word Here, A Word There
07/29/2008 Assessing the Calm
07/22/2008 Action-Reaction & Parameters of Interest
07/15/2008 Numerous Difficulties & Monetary Insurance
07/08/2008 GSE's Falling Into the Abyss
07/01/2008 Danger: Open Trench
06/24/2008 Trouble Ahead for the Four Horsemen and Europe's Not So Sunny Side
06/17/2008 Disco
Balls, Donna Summer, Pipeline Pressures & the Great Housing
Collapse
06/10/2008 Asian
Markets Rumble: The Plunge Toward Global Recession
06/03/2008 Return
of the Credit Crisis - Did It Ever Leave? Time to brace for more
bad news
05/27/2008 Stagflationary
Recession Deepening: Retailers Lining Up in the Crosshairs
05/20/2008 Battlestations!
S&P in Topping Mode
05/06/2008 Mad
Cow & Economics Mumbo-Jumbo Media Babble
04/29/2008 Eternal
Constants and the Eye of the Storm
04/22/2008 'Oreo
Cookies' & the Stock Market
04/15/2008 Revisiting
Some Radioactive Ideas: What's next for U308? - Part II
04/08/2008 Revisiting
Some Radioactive Ideas: What's next for U308?
04/01/2008 Technical
Update: Healthcare Sector
03/25/2008 The
Economy and Crude Oil
03/18/2008 Central
Bankers At Work, And the "Dr. Heckyll and Mr. Jive"
Syndrome
03/11/2008 Iceberg
Ahead...SOS!
03/04/2008 US
Exporting Deflation
02/26/2008 The
Expanding Menu of Horrors
02/19/2008 Decoupling
Discredited and Deflation
02/12/2008 What
Buffett Bounce?
02/05/2008 Rotation,
Rotation, Rotation
01/29/2008 All
Eyes on the Fed
01/22/2008 Bullish
Action in the Bellwethers
01/15/2008 Bear
Market In Force -- C-YA!
01/08/2008 Breakdown
12/18/2007 Monetary
Policy -- Gravely Compromised
12/11/2007 The
End of Denial
12/04/2007 Marathon
Man: Is it Safe?
11/27/2007 Financial
Upheaval: Building Downside Momentum
11/20/2007 Making
Stagflation Your Friend
11/13/2007 Who's
Zoomin' Who?
11/06/2007 Banking
Crisis -- What Banking Crisis?
10/30/2007 Halloween
Scariness in the Financial Sector
10/25/2007 Stock
Market - Update
10/16/2007 Energy
Update - Part Two: Winter on the Horizon
10/09/2007 Energy
Update - Part One
10/02/2007 Mirror, Mirror
09/25/2007 De-Industrialization and the 'Nordstrom's -- Wal-Mart' Economy
09/18/2007 Fed's Reckless Bubble Blowing - Part II: Ben Bernanke and the Missing...
09/11/2007 The View From 30,000 Feet
09/04/2007 The Lull and the Great Inflation-Deflation Debate
08/28/2007 China, Commodities, & U308
08/21/2007 Quiet Meltdowns and the Money Panic
08/14/2007 Revulsion and Discredit
08/07/2007 Chasing Rainbows and the Greatest Hits of 1930!
07/24/2007 Bearish Divergences Abound
07/17/2007 Unforgettable
07/10/2007 Finding Good Value in Energy -- Natural Gas
07/03/2007 The Top Out Parade
06/26/2007 Signs of a Gathering Storm
06/19/2007 The Top Ten Signals That Global Stock Markets Have Topped
06/11/2007 Technical Update - Key Markets
06/05/2007 Will the Real Slim Shady Please Stand Up!
05/29/2007 Tempting Fate: The Return of the Bear -- Part II
05/22/2007 Tales of a Rolling Boulder
05/15/2007 A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That...
05/08/2007 AWASH in Liquidity
05/01/2007 Sell in May and Go Away?
04/24/2007 Several Gauges for Recession
04/17/2007 "The Orangey Sky"
03/27/2007 Market Trend: "Giant Sideways"
03/20/2007 Let the Sunshine In...
03/13/2007 Torpedoed by Sub-Prime -- Again
03/06/2007 Markets Hit Bottom: But Will It Last?
02/27/2007 Tracking the Perfect Storm
02/20/2007 Changes on the Margin
02/13/2007 Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave
02/06/2007 The Home Builders
01/30/2007 The Great Credit Bubble: What Could Go Wrong?
01/23/2007 Getting Bullish on Oil and Oil Stocks
01/16/2007 Don't Worry -- Be Happy!
01/09/2007 2007: The Return of the Bear
10/05/2006 A Major Low in Resource Stocks
08/15/2006 Forward-Looking Outlook
08/08/2006 The Fed May Not Be Done
08/01/2006 Bear Gaining Traction
07/25/2006 Bears and Bulls
04/20/2006 End of Cycle: Collision Course
10/13/2005 What's Ahead for the Energy Bull?
05/03/2005 Energy: Is the Wall of Worry Crumbling
Contact Information
Frank Barbera | The Gold Stock Technician PO BOX 48072 Los Angeles, CA 900048
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