Market Pain as Economy Crashes with Michael Oliver

Interview recorded - 13th of March 2025

On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming back Michael Oliver. Michael is the founder of Momentum Structural Analysis.

During our conversation we spoke about the current risk of a recession, what this means for markets, why there could be a long bear market, gold, the commodity super cycle and more. I hope you enjoy!

0:00 - Introduction
1:17 - Thoughts on markets?
6:13 - How do you define a market?
10:51 - Surprised about market strength?
20:51 - Dollar to come down
22:11 - Recession
24:41 - Gold
32:26 - Commodity super cycle?

J. Michael Oliver entered the financial services industry in 1975 on the Futures side, joining E.F. Hutton’s International Commodity Division, headquartered in New York City's Battery Park.  He studied under David Johnston, head of Hutton’s Commodity Division and Chairman of the COMEX.

In the 1980s Mike began to develop his own momentum-based method of technical analysis.  He learned early on that orthodox price chart technical analysis left many unanswered questions and too often deceived those who trusted in price chart breakouts, support/resistance, and so forth.

In 1987 Mike technically anticipated and caught the Crash.  It was then that he decided to develop his structural momentum tools into a full analytic methodology.

In 1992 the Financial VP and head of Wachovia Bank's Trust  Department asked Mike to provide soft dollar research to Wachovia.  Within a year, Mike shifted from brokerage to full-time technical research.  He is also the author of The New Libertarianism: Anarcho-Capitalism.

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