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  • Low Risk yet Reasonable Return Strategies Using Long Term Stock Market Timing Indicators by ValidFi
    What? Are you Madoff? These days, anything related to 'low risk' or 'steady' returns generates skepticism. It is very understandable and perfectly reasonable for investors to have such a feeling, given what have happened in the financial industries. However, if an investor does follow sound and... More »
    November 22, 2009 • CIU, CSJ, DBA
  • The Long View of Asia by Mad Hedge Fund Trader
    I have long sat beside the table of Mckinsey & Co., the best management consulting company in Asia, hoping to catch some crumbs of wisdom. So I jumped at the chance to have breakfast with Shanghai based Worldwide Managing Director Dominic Barton when he passed through San Francisco visiting... More »
    November 20, 2009 • FXI, DBC, DYY
  • The ETN Universe is Shrinking by Don Dion
    When exchange-traded notes first appeared on the market in 2006, investors rushed to invest in what was heralded as the next generation of exchange traded products. Three years later, the ETN universe is contracting. Are ETNs a portfolio risk, or simply underutilized and misunderstood? According... More »
    November 19, 2009 • UNG, USO, DJP
  • ETFDesk Daily 11/18/2009 by ETFdesk.com
     Sign up for Daily email and feed at etfdesk.comToday's market-moving headlines, macro trade ideas and more...Confronting the China-U.S. Economic ImbalanceFreshest Data Shows The Recovery Is Nowhere Near V-ShapedDave Rosenberg 11/17/2009Gold - the next bubble?Goldman Sachs:... More »
    November 18, 2009 • UNG, FCG, PPR
  • ETFDesk Daily 11/18/2009 by ETFdesk.com
     Sign up for Daily email and feed at etfdesk.comToday's market-moving headlines, macro trade ideas and more...Confronting the China-U.S. Economic ImbalanceFreshest Data Shows The Recovery Is Nowhere Near V-ShapedDave Rosenberg 11/17/2009Gold - the next bubble?Goldman Sachs:... More »
    November 18, 2009 • UNG, FCG, PPR
  • US Treasuries in a Bubble, Not Commodities by Daily Trading
    US Treasuries are not behaving the way that they "normally" should. We say this looking at strong equity, commodity, and precious metal prices. The price  of US Treasuries should be falling, or at best not rising. Rising gold, silver, platinum, copper, equites, et al, seemingly... More »
    November 18, 2009 • DBC, TBT, SLV
  • Ag Boom Is Igniting by Bruce Pile
    When anyone asks Jim Rogers for his best advice nowadays, he says "become a farmer".  He is busy buying up farming operations all over the globe.  It is the farmer, he says, that will be driving the Maseratis of the future, not the growers of creative debt instruments on Wall... More »
    November 17, 2009 • DBA, DBC, SGG
  • Financial Markets in Eight Charts by Daily Trading
    In this series we present a simplistic view of the internal process we go through to determine our market outlook. Each week we go through a discipline process of reviewing our outlook, reviewing & rebalancing our positions etc..Regular readers will note that up and until last week our... More »
    November 16, 2009 • EEM, GWX, JNK
  • John Hussman's Peak PE Ratio as a Long Term Stock Market Indicator by ValidFi
    John Hussman, manager of Hussman Strategy Growth Fund (HSGFX) proposed price to peak 10 year average earnings as a long term stock market valuation metric. Compared with the normal one year price to earning ratio, Price to Peak Earnings would eliminate short term noise. This is similar to... More »
    November 15, 2009 • SPY, EFA, EEM
  • Some ETFs Hit Breaking Point by Don Dion
    As investors digest news of the latest trading troubles in PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish ETF (UUP), they should take note of an alarming new trend in the ETF industry. As investors flood into funds to take advantage of the latest market trends, some ETFs have reached…READ MORE To... More »
    November 9, 2009 • UUP, UNG, DBA

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