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- Nine Months Later: Some Annual Predictions from the Financial Press [view article]
- Concentrated Solar Power & the New ITC: Big Winners of the Bailout Package [view article]
- Year to Date Performance of Dow 30 Members [view article]
- Time For Another Look At Geothermals? [view article]
- Dow Price Targets from Last November [view article]
- Geothermal Power: Beginning To Get The Attention It Deserves [view article]
- 15 Value Hedge Funds - Portfolio Update [view article]
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- Mid-Year Picks and Pans From Barron's Roundtable Part II [view article]
- United Technologies: Attractively Valued Dividend Achiever [view article]
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- Dow Price Targets from Last November
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Nine Months Later: Some Annual Predictions from the Financial Press [view article]
Please just remember that if you are going long that you are truly gambling if you don't have your exit strategy in place from the start. And make sure its adjusting to the market as it needs to. Don't rely on a lame trailing stop which is not at all reflective of that stock's behavior and market conditions. ReplyConcentrated Solar Power & the New ITC: Big Winners of the Bailout Package [view article]
"The technology uses mirrors to concentrate the sun's heat, and that heat is used to create steam to run a turbine, just as the heat from fossil fuels is used to create steam to run a turbine in a conventional gas or coal fired power plant."What is the heat rate compared to gas or coal fired power plants?
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See FOILS 5,6, and 7.
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Concentrated Solar Power & the New ITC: Big Winners of the Bailout Package [view article]
Very good article. Thanks for the big effort putting this together.Reply
Concentrated Solar Power & the New ITC: Big Winners of the Bailout Package [view article]
Geothermal, utility play, CPN 1/3 of electricity is from Geo, emerged from bankruptcy with virtually no debt. Will be able to sell carbon credits for added income.In hand vs pie in the sky. ACXIF is already down...what 2/3rds from its high...no thanks. Reply
Concentrated Solar Power & the New ITC: Big Winners of the Bailout Package [view article]
Excellent article - though you might be panned in the comments for not offering price entry and exit points, I appreciate the background and up-to-the-minute analysis on the legislative side. I don't know about the utilities, but CSP has gotten a LOT of positive attention on the academic side. ReplyConcentrated Solar Power & the New ITC: Big Winners of the Bailout Package [view article]
My only question is how much downside are you willing to take in either stock before you decide to sell? The reason I ask: you won't come back to inform us that you no longer hold these stocks..So what is your worst case scenario? Reply
Year to Date Performance of Dow 30 Members [view article]
General Motors are still included in the list, This only proves that people are still interested in different cars. Which is nowadays, can be easily search in the internet if you want to buy whether it is new or used car just like in www.zibe.comReply
Nine Months Later: Some Annual Predictions from the Financial Press [view article]
I am going back to drunkenly throwing darts at a newspaper. (My monkey got repossessed!) ReplyNine Months Later: Some Annual Predictions from the Financial Press [view article]
Chuck LeBeau's comment is SPAM ReplyNine Months Later: Some Annual Predictions from the Financial Press [view article]
Where is Louis Rukeyser when we need him!He always told the truth about the investment advice record of the big boys:
They are wrong more often than they are right, even in an up market. But that's a truth no one wants to hear. Reply
Nine Months Later: Some Annual Predictions from the Financial Press [view article]
I like what you have to say, and am in full agreement. My thought on investing in SPY and QQQQ is to dollar cost average into these two ETF's. Over the years I feel I will make a better than average return. ReplyNine Months Later: Some Annual Predictions from the Financial Press [view article]
Great article and an always valid point to check performance against the market. Everyone seems to think they are winning until they bother to check the score. ReplyNine Months Later: Some Annual Predictions from the Financial Press [view article]
Avoid Financial Disasters with SmartStopsIn less than a year six widely held financial stocks have cost Buy and Hold investors more than $840 billion dollars. (Yes, that’s “billions” with a “B”).
$840 billion in losses is a number that might even get Warren Buffet’s attention. Think of all the retirement funds and college tuition money that got needlessly flushed down the drain in these few months. It’s a sad scenario but the saddest part is that the investors who lost all these billions could have avoided this disaster by simply using a “SmartStop” trailing exit.
Let’s look at the individual stocks and see what might have happened if some prudent stops were set rather than relying on a “buy and hold”. (You will notice that I did not refer to “buy and hold” as a strategy. It doesn’t qualify to be a strategy – its actually the absence of any intelligent exit strategy.)
Fannie Mae (FNM): The Sept/Oct 2007 high was $68.60 and FNM dropped to a recent low of $6.68. This 97% decline cost investors a total of $66 billion dollars. A SmartStop exit was triggered on Oct. 17, 2007 that would have limited the loss from the peak to less than 10%.
Freddie Mac (FRE): The Sept/Oct 2007 high was $65.88 and in less than 12 months FRE dropped all the way down to a pitiful 36 cents. When Freddie took that leap off the cliff it cost “buy and hold” investors $42 billion dollars. However a SmartStop exit was triggered on Oct. 16, 2007 at a price of $58.05 that might have preserved enough equity to get the grandkids through college.
Lehman Brothers (LEH): The Sept/Oct 2007 high was $66.98 and now they have filed for bankruptcy and the shares recently closed at a value of 21 cents. This painful disaster cost LEH shareholders $46 billion from the referenced high. Where was the SmartStop exit on LEH? It was triggered on Oct. 19th at $57.47 a share. Those funds could have been reinvested and earning money toward a comfortable retirement. Where is all that money now?
American International Group (AIG): The Sept/Oct 2007 high was $70.13 and now the stock is trying to stabilize somewhere below $5 after hitting $3.50. For the unfortunate shareholders who still own AIG that’s a whopping loss of $179 billion (give or take a few dollars). How smart was the SmartStops exit? It was triggered on Oct. 15, 2007 at $66.41 and there have been 28 more SmartStops sell signals since then.
Washington Mutual (WM): The Sept/Oct 2007 high was $39.25 and the SmartStop exit was at $34.30 on Oct. 15th. WM hit a recent low of $1.75; not even enough to buy a Starbucks latte. In less than a year WM shareholders lost more than $63 billion. Maybe if they hold long enough WM will eventually recover. (Although it will require a gain of more than 2000% to make back that 95% loss.)
Bear Stearns (BSC): It’s hard to believe that the Sept/Oct 2007 high for this ancient and respected brokerage firm with over 3 billion shares outstanding was $133.20 a share. Now they are gone and even with the government assisted bailout their unfortunate shareholders have lost more than $440 billion in equity. This one can never recover. That’s $440 billion of hard earned savings that’s now gone forever. (In case you are wondering, the SmartStops exit was at $110.11 on October 24, 2007. There were 17 more SmartStops exit signals prior to the takeover.)
I wonder if the Bear Stearns account executives told their clients that the best way to invest was to buy and hold?
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Nine Months Later: Some Annual Predictions from the Financial Press [view article]
yep - i'm getting spanked - having only invested @ august 1, i've still managed to catch up w/ the rest of the market's hideous downturn by being overly optimistic (and overweight) concerning financials. ReplyTime For Another Look At Geothermals? [view article]
Great article Michael and as Danno pointed out the by-products may be more valuable than the product. As far as corrosive water/steam thats what heat exchangers are for. Reply