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Systematic Trading Plan: Current 50 Day Moving Average Signals November 20, 2009 by Mark Seleznov
Systematic Trader’s will use the 50 day Simple Moving Average as their trading plan. The 50 day moving average is a good trading plan for indexes and ETF’s that have trend following characteristics. It can produce disastrous results if used for every index or ETF.Other... More »
November 20, 2009 • SPY, DIA, QQQQ
Ethanol Versus Natural Gas or Coal: Not Even Close! by Joseph L. Shaefer
The twisted, tortuous tale of ethanol as the great hope for an energy-independent America holds an object lesson for us all. What I wrote in my most recent article for SA, on a different subject, holds equally true here… “Entrepreneurs make money; early investors... More »
November 18, 2009 • ECA, IMO, XOM
Old Normal Allocation Becomes New Normal? by Richard Shaw
The old normal allocation between the three most basic classes (Cash, Bonds and Stocks) is currently the new normal. While the old normal return expectations for U.S. securities, and the allocation between U.S. securities and global securities (particularly emerging market securities) is not... More »
November 17, 2009 • SPY, MDY, EWU
Systematic Trading of the 200 day simple moving average, ETF’s (QQQQ) by Mark Seleznov
Systematic trading using the 200 day simple moving average is used by many of the largest college endowments, money managers and registered investment advisors. I am opposed to using one system for all assets, but the 200 day simple moving average system and versions of it is an excellent... More »
November 13, 2009 • SPY, ILF, IYM
All Roads Lead To Commodities by Dr. Stephen Leeb
Three seemingly disparate news items last week strongly suggest that the investment world is bifurcating into commodity and non-commodity investments – or if you will long-term winners and long-term losers. First, India's central bank announced that it had bought 200 tons of gold from the... More »
November 11, 2009 • GLD, SLV, EWZ
The Top 20 High-Yield ETFs by Scott's Investments
Below is a list of the 20 best performing "high yield" ETFs over the past 6 months. ETFs were ranked by 6 month performance and were required to have a 3% minimum dividend yield.The list for the middle of October has a strong global theme -nearly all of the ETFs on the list have... More »
October 17, 2009 • FGD, DEW, DGS
Commodity Linked Currencies Are Recovering With Global Economy by Anna Fedec
During the last few months, commodity linked currencies, have seen an unprecedented rise in their exchange rate against the dollar. For instance, the Australian Dollar and the Brazilian Real are among those currencies that gained the most. But can those currencies sustain its current... More »
October 8, 2009 • EWZ, BZF, FXA
Australia Becomes First G20 Nation To Raise Rates by Terence Chan
How quickly the tide turns. After cutting their benchmark lending rates by a record 425 bps from September 2008 to April 2009, the Australian central bank unexpectedly raised its key rate by 25bps overnight. The overnight cash rate now stands at 3.25%. As reported by Bloomberg:"Governor... More »
October 6, 2009 • EWA
Stimulus Watch: I hope the Aussies are saving their pennies by Lockstep Investing
Is Australia about to take shot on the chin? Currently the country is navigating the global downturn with exports of raw commodities to China. Is that about to turn?Australia, which has benefited greatly from China's increased manufacturing consumption of iron ore. China has gone from consuming... More »
September 17, 2009 • FXA, EWA, FXI
Does the Aussie Dollar continue it's Advance? by Edward Rooster
We have a buy/long signal at this time for the Australian dollar. And the question in our minds is whether the Australian Dollar rise continues, after more than six (in fact soon to be more than seven) months up? We don't know but this favorite "risk-trade" proxy (i.e.... More »
August 31, 2009 • FXA, EWA

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iShares MSCI Australia Index (EWA)

Instablog posts on EWA

Systematic Trading Plan: Current 50 Day Moving Average Signals November 20, 2009 by Mark Seleznov

Ethanol Versus Natural Gas or Coal: Not Even Close! by Joseph L. Shaefer

Old Normal Allocation Becomes New Normal? by Richard Shaw

Systematic Trading of the 200 day simple moving average, ETF’s (QQQQ) by Mark Seleznov

All Roads Lead To Commodities by Dr. Stephen Leeb

The Top 20 High-Yield ETFs by Scott's Investments

Commodity Linked Currencies Are Recovering With Global Economy by Anna Fedec

Australia Becomes First G20 Nation To Raise Rates by Terence Chan

Stimulus Watch: I hope the Aussies are saving their pennies by Lockstep Investing

Does the Aussie Dollar continue it's Advance? by Edward Rooster

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