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  • What Investors and Traders Should Do Right Now [View article]
    There are many ways to look at the market. One way is that we have made a 50%+ move on the SPX and should have a correction. Hard to argue with that.

    But, 11 months ago, the week of Sept 15, 2008, Lehman filed bankruptcy on Monday and AIG was taken over by the US Government on Tuesday evening. Things looked scary. The SPX ended the week at 1255 , 25% higher than today.

    The question I ask the bears (and myself) is this: were things better then at SPX 1255 or today at SPX 1007?
    Aug 20 19:05 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • A Buy & Hold Forever Dividend Stock Portfolio [View article]
    Good list.

    Back testing would make no sense since these are all companies that did pretty well in the period back tested. A list from 20 years ago might have included Kodak (EK), last year's list would have probably included AIG.

    For back testing, check the XMI index a group of 20 stocks, many on this list. I do not think there has been many changes over time. WalMart and MSFT were not original in 1983.


    COMPONENTS FOR ^XMI
    Symbol Name Last Trade Change Volume
    AXP AMER EXPRESS INC
    CVX CHEVRON CORP
    DD DU PONT E I DE NEM
    DIS WALT DISNEY
    DOW DOW CHEMICAL
    EK EASTMAN KODAK
    GE GEN ELECTRIC CO
    GM GEN MOTORS
    IBM INTL BUSINESS MACH
    IP INTL PAPER
    JNJ JOHNSON AND JOHNS
    KO COCA COLA CO
    MCD MCDONALDS
    MMM 3M COMPANY
    MO ALTRIA GROUP INC
    MRK MERCK CO INC 27.55
    MSFT Microsoft Corporation
    PG PROCTER GAMBLE CO
    WMT WAL MART STORES
    XOM EXXON MOBIL CP


    Nov 12 08:26 am |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment
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