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  • Shadows of Prejudice by Keith McCullough
    “It's never too late to give up our prejudices.”-Henry David Thoreau Shorting pullbacks in a market that continues to make higher highs and higher lows is not a strategy that I subscribe to. Selling high and buying low, however, as revolutionary as that might sound,... More »
    May 13, 2009 • XLV, XLK, EWD
  • Five ETFs to Watch in Obama's Second 100 Days by Michael Johnston
    For those of you who haven't heard (and you must've been on the moon if you haven't), President Obama recently marked the end of his first 100 days in office. Ever since FDR pushed through 15 major bills in his first 3+ months on the job, pundits have sold the idea of this period as a meaningful... More »
    May 11, 2009 • PFE, ABT, WYE
  • Broad Category Chart Vectors by Richard Shaw
    In the physical world, movement has two key properties: Direction and Magnitude.  If we think of price patterns shown on charts in a physical world way, we can assign Direction and Magnitude to each chart. In the table below, we show the UP, DN or FLAT Direction of the 5-week, 10-week,... More »
    May 11, 2009 • TLT, TIP, MUB
  • Research Edge's Early Look: Beta Shifting - Down by Keith McCullough
     “Chasing Performance is like driving while looking into a rear view mirror.”-Andrew Barber Over the past week, a number of our Research Edge Macro musings have suggested that the data points being released on housing and jobs is like looking into the rear view... More »
    May 7, 2009 • EWJ, EWW, DIA
  • THE DOLLAR IS DOOMED by Living4Dividends
     We have all heard too much already about the debt crisis: the U.S. Citizen is overextended in consumer loans and mortgage debt. Banks and commercial real estate are overextended.  The Federal Government is printing and lending money at a furious pace, effectively assuming the debt of... More »
    May 6, 2009 • VNQ, SPY, WIP
  • I'm Smarter than my Broker by Ricard
     After reading this article about yet another fund manager talking his book, I became motivated to write this little piece with the aptly named title. Why, you may ask, would I dare write such a piece?  How can the title possibly be true??  After all, these... More »
    May 5, 2009 • SPX, TIP
  • Stock Versus Bond Performance by Richard Shaw
    Bonds have outperformed stocks in the past decade, and over significant periods over the past 200 years. Index Universe published an excellent article by Bob Arnott on bonds performance versus stocks performance.  We recommend reading it.  From the article: “Most observers,... More »
    May 4, 2009 • TLT, MUB, TIP
  • WIP & TIP: Better Than Gold by Living4Dividends
     Since the market’s collapse, there has been a lot of interest in Gold, and for good reason: Very real fears of inflation, deflation and currency devaluation. Investors are looking for a rock-solid way to protect their wealth. This article proposes an alternative to Gold. If your goal... More »
    April 29, 2009 • TIP, WIP
  • TIPS: Good in Deflationary & Inflationary Times by Living4Dividends
    TIPS – Good in both Deflationary and Inflationary TimesPrudent asset allocation tells us that some of our portfolio should be allocated to bonds. While there are some bargains currently in corporate bonds, to protect your principle, the safest bonds are US Treasury Bonds.There are two... More »
    April 27, 2009 • TIP, IPE
  • Swine Flu Resources for Investors by Hedged In
    Here's a list of Swine Flu resources from a trader's perspective. You can see the full list of stocks in the tags at the end; please leave suggestions for updates as a comment: Tracking swineflu developments The CDC website Swineflu from Wikipedia #Swineflu at TwitterFlu tracker at... More »
    April 27, 2009 • IHE, IHF, IYT

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