iShares Russell 2000 Index (IWM)

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    omooc
    May 09 09:34 PM
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    ETF Fund Flows (Week Ending 5/2/08) [view article]
    Excellent presentation. It would be even better were it more timely. A minor suggestion: present data in million $ -- this makes reading easier. Thanks for your service. omooc Reply
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    Dave71
    May 09 02:30 PM
    Tuesday Outlook: Unremarkable Volume, Breadth [view article]
    A quick question...

    What happenned to my DBA Powershares? Trading halted? Can't find any info.

    Regards,

    Dave

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    David Fry
    May 07 04:09 PM
    Wednesday Outlook: The Bad News Is the Good News [view article]
    karchad, let's see...........3 year "total return" on DVY 2.2% and 1 year at [15.92%].......how'd you do 10% a year? I'm all ears!

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    karchad
    May 07 01:35 PM
    Wednesday Outlook: The Bad News Is the Good News [view article]
    I've been in DVY since 11/2003, and have an annualized yield still of just over 10%. Like any other investment, if you buy at the top, you suffer. If you buy decently, you can weather the bad times (and in fact buy more at low points). So his comment on DVY is a bit off. Reply
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    Whidbey
    May 07 01:19 PM
    Wednesday Outlook: The Bad News Is the Good News [view article]
    David is overly bearish. Of course things are not looking good, but one must see the potentials in the US market. Personally I am just buying C$ and metals because, will, I am a little fearful the government (read Congress) robbing us again (10 to the 5th time). This can only happen when a corrupt government panders to an even more corrupt electorate. As the bard said, "We met the energy and he is us." Reply
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    steve pluvia
    May 07 01:06 PM
    Wednesday Outlook: The Bad News Is the Good News [view article]
    David, historically you cannot mix TA with fundamental analysis. Use one or the other. Trying to justify TA with fundamentals is [and always has been] a futile exercise. Reply
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    adan
    May 07 12:02 PM
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    Wednesday Outlook: The Bad News Is the Good News [view article]
    throw into the mix that retail sales in europe were reported this morning to have dropped to 1995 levels, and it starts to get interesting for all the de-coupling foreign-earnings bulls

    re Fannie Mae (FNM), i think this is enough nonsense; if they are gonna have public monies to use and as backstop, they need to be reigned in re risk, period
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    Nate C
    May 07 11:41 AM
    Wednesday Outlook: The Bad News Is the Good News [view article]
    As always, thanks David for the charts. I find them really useful. I also appreciate your remarks.

    ps. I am so sick of these dollar bulls saying that the dollar has finally bottomed. Everytime the dollar ticks down I have to hear that we have finally hit a bottom and it is all up from here. LOL! Next stop for euro/dollar 1.65. You have to hadn it to Trichet about holding the line on interest rates and trying to stop inflation.     Reply
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    Rich L
    May 07 11:36 AM
    Wednesday Outlook: The Bad News Is the Good News [view article]
    Ker That's what I'm thinking. Nobody has it on their radar. If they stand pat or even raise rates, dollar will tank, market will tank and bonds will tank. Our FED is in a box and europe might make them defend the dollar. They're tired of dealing with our worldwide inflation campaign. Reply
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    rkc51246
    May 07 09:17 AM
    Wednesday Outlook: The Bad News Is the Good News [view article]
    hook - David is sarcastic most of the time - havent seen anything positive (except the negative) for quite some time Reply
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    hook
    May 07 09:11 AM
    Wednesday Outlook: The Bad News Is the Good News [view article]
    the only thing all these etf charts have in common is the lack of volume on the upmove. care to explain how that's bullish? Reply
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    Ker
    May 07 08:59 AM
    Wednesday Outlook: The Bad News Is the Good News [view article]
    Love it!
    Would the top to be with tomorrows ECB interest rate decision ?     Reply
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    Suzit
    May 06 11:00 PM
    Tuesday Outlook: Unremarkable Volume, Breadth [view article]
    Is that a head and shoulders top I see in GLD? Reply
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    globalmacro
    May 06 12:55 PM
    Tuesday Outlook: Unremarkable Volume, Breadth [view article]
    Head and Shoulders top in India? No way. Only a very short-term analysis would ever jump to that conclusion based on the totally random gyrations of a closed end fund chart. Take a look at the more naturally trading ETF charts please. IFN trades in a very strange way based on supply and demand dynamics that have nothing to do with the underlying value of the companies in the fund. Reply
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    Geoff
    Considine
    May 06 11:13 AM
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    What Is Diversification Worth? [view article]
    To Montag:

    Ahh--but perhaps you have missed my point. I consider Warren Buffett's portfolio to be well diversified. I analyzed top Berkshire holdings using Monte Carlo and the model showed that Berkshire is well diversified. When Buffett talks about diversification he is talking about the 'buying everything' school of diversification. Smater diversification is quite different:

    seekingalpha.com/article/17192-monte-car...

    You can be well-diversified and concentrated--this is not a contradiction in terms. Diversification does not, by any real definition, mean buying some of everything. Diversification means having a portfolio in which the parts exhibit low enough correlation that you can extract more return for a given level of risk than you can with the individual parts. This does not require hundreds of holdings.

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