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Key ETFs Furthest Above and Below Their 50-Day Moving Averages [view article]
What is the point? Sell the overboughts? Buy the oversolds? What kind of historical record of buy/sell signals can you get from this info? Dave ReplyHousing Affordability Proves Elusive [view article]
Well, it all depends where you live. For instance, here in the Western New York area, there was no boom to speak of, so now there has been no bust....just slow and steady growth, which earned this area 3 of the top 10 rankings for best real estate markets(Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse). Our housing prices are among the most affordable in the nation, with many nice houses available for under $125,000. I cannot for the life of me understand why people decide its better for them to move elsewhere so they can earn an extra $1000 per month, only to pay that much or more back out of their pocket due to the higher cost of living in a lot of places, which in some places borders on the absurd.Reply
Housing Affordability Proves Elusive [view article]
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Housing Affordability Proves Elusive [view article]
We've been here before - happily for some of you, you weren't there or you don't wish to remember - wasn't fun then and it ain't now. ReplyHousing Affordability Proves Elusive [view article]
"Thirty-year Fixed Mortgage rates remain at 6.0%." Sometimes I jokingly tell my colleagues that I feel we are headed back to the 1950's, overall, in this country. But I noticed a chart, today, which displayed a bank mortgage rate average of 5.00%, for the date, September 1, 1959. Glancing further at the chart, I noticed that the 5.00% rate (and lower) was fairly constant, in those times. Yes, I am fully cognizant of the fact that rates fluctuate all the time. Still, home prices are headed lower and lower and lower, and interest rates are doing same. Mortgage loans, even for well-qualified borrowers are getting harder and harder to get. People are already beginning to keep their old cars, longer. Grocery shoppers are getting more careful about their food purchases; a butcher in a large grocery store remarked to me, this week, that the cheaper cuts of meat are selling well, but sales of the expensive cuts are suffering. An auto mechanic advised me that I would have to leave my car with him for at least two days, for what amounts to a tune-up. "I'm workin' on 'em as fast as I can," he told me. His point was that he is swamped with work. He also mentioned that he is getting more work orders for full rebuilding of engines, which suggests to me that more people are going to drive that car a long time, instead of trading it. The last figures I saw for new car sales showed a 15% decrease, year-over-year. I realize that what I am relating is a microcosm, but we all live in microcosms. I am also aware that these actions could be a short-term reaction to a relatively short-term recession. Still, this one does not FEEL like a short-term problem. What I am seeing and hearing is indicative of a sea-change in the way people are reacting to their new circumstances. They are digging in. Maybe the indicators, such as interest rates, sales of new cars, and shopping habits are finding their way back to the fifties. Oh, I can hear the howls, now. Those who thought the bubbles were going to float us, forever, are going to insist that it's all short-term, but I am not sure of that, at all. I'm still watching, and listening. ReplyHousing Affordability Proves Elusive [view article]
There's nothing "lost" here. It's just a transfer of wealth from the foolish or the comfortable to the smart or lucky brave ones who found the courage to bail before the thing blew up (or in the case of realtors, brokers and bankers ... the crooked made $). Dumping my Pasadena, CA house in 2005 turned me into a millionaire (but a million dollars isn't what it used to be). ReplyHousing Affordability Proves Elusive [view article]
A generation lost to greed and bad bankers. ReplyExchange-Traded Funds and Closed-End Funds by Asset Class, Type and Provider [view article]
can you please update this list? thanks. ReplyTiedeman
A Good Time to Cover Bank of America [view article]
Some think BAC will be cutting its dividend. The same for WFC. ReplyBullish on the Market, With Caution [view article]
Try 34% and 30%, respectively, (i.e., comma before and after respectively. ReplyBullish on the Market, With Caution [view article]
Bull trap! Bull trap! This rally has no volume. The institutions are tricking the public so they can get out at higher prices. With oil at $120 equities need a 50% haircut before they can hold their own. Since oil is probably going to $150 I think buy and hold only makes since if the investor is six years old. ReplyHawthorne
Bullish on the Market, With Caution [view article]
Whoa! This is nonsense!Tell me, if "the market was at unsustainably high levels and was due for a pullback" last summer as you say, what on earth has happened to make "the market ever more attractive" since then?
Today, we can say we've had about an 8.6% pullback from the October highs (which were every bit as unsustainable as the highs of last June BTW).
I think you'd better come right out and admit that your valuation methodology has absolutely zip to do with any conventional concept of value investing and appears to be totally based on price action.
This is like forecasting that it's going to sunny outside because we've had a little rain!
I hope you're right, of course, but I fear the consequences of a classic "bull trap" at this time! Reply
The Credit Crunch Is Far From Over [view article]
"the pros knew this 1 year ago". HELLOOO??NOBODY of these pros expected this kind of mess, not to speak of KNOWING it. Many of the young guys working at the IBs and driving around in their expensive cars HAVE ZERO CLUES about the economy, about the stock and credit markets. they have never ever witnessed a real crisis, they DO NOT KNOW fair valuations or rock-bottom valuations because they have mostly grown up in a bubble environment where everything only went up. And this applies to almost all assets. Did these golden-parachute-overp... CEOs at C, Mer, BSC, etc. even have a remote understanding of risk? Or worse, DID THEY EVER REALLY BOTHER AT ALL? No, they didn't. Otherwise a lot of these deals and the business would have NEVER been done in the first place! So don't tell me the pros knew anything. some smart one imagined what could happen.
But nobody really knows how things will play out and how bad it may become before it gets really better.
@ johnnybigspenad and apppro: Do you have any understanding what leverage means, what a pyramide of leverage means and what deleveraging of that means? Trillions in perceived "assets" today do ONLY exist because excessive leverage brought them into being. But they are to a large extent just thin air that will go out along with the leverage. How bad the overall economy and everybody will be affected depends on the pace and the way of the deleveraging process. The slower and more "orderly" it can be done, the less harm will be inflicted. NOBODY can forecast how this will play out. It's unprecedented. So how shall the market have "priced it in" - when not one single market player really has a clue? Reply
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The Real Threat of the Housing Bubble [view article]
How does the Fed raise nominal incomes? Is there any limit to the Fed's powers, or is he the wizard of OZ? ReplyThe Credit Crunch Is Far From Over [view article]
Kudos! For reiterating that this is a bear market! The banks and the trading firms are living on FED money, and create the market RISE and FALLS violently. Many investors are make money in one day and losing the next day. The RISE and FALL have no logical reasoning except wild guesses by the MARKET SPECIALISTS. This is similar to horse racing! Reply