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  • 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
  • ETFDesk Daily 11/12/2009 by ETFdesk.com
     Sign up for Daily email and feed at www.etfdesk.comNuveen Investments to Offer New Mortgage Opportunity Term FundChina Signals That It May Allow Currency to Rise Against DollarTFC October Monthly UpdateIllinois speeding toward budget disaster, study saysHow the middle class are... More »
    November 12, 2009 • CNY, CYB, TFC
  • Correlations to VXX (Not to the market but to VXX ) by talld
    The following graph from my home developed software depicts the way that large funds synchronize their trading of VXX with UUP, SPY, XLY, AUY and IYR.   The graphs show correlations.  Rather amazing how it is as if one large computer program is doing all the trading.(What is depicted... More »
    November 10, 2009 • VXX, SPY, IYR
  • ETFDesk Daily 11/10/2009 by ETFdesk.com
     Sign up for Daily email and feed at www.etfdesk.comMedia DayTIPS: Inflation Is Coming! Inflation Is Coming!Media DayGold - a six thousand year-old bubbleFed Survey Finds Banks Are Squeezing Consumer Even TighterThe Zweig Total Return Fund IncBanks Choosing Treasury Bonds Over LoansAs... More »
    November 10, 2009 • GCH, TIPZ, TIP
  • ETFDesk Top News and Investment Ideas 11/1/2009 by ETFdesk.com
     Sign up for Daily email and live feed at etfdesk.comConsumer Cutbacks: Temporary or Permanent?Posted: 31 Oct 2009 01:56 AM PDTA recent Gallup poll asked consumers whether they were reducing their spending and/or increasing their saving, and if so, whether they expected those... More »
    November 1, 2009 • ROB, XLY, XRT
  • Consumer Confidence Dips Due to Jobs–But what of Price of Oil? by Beacon Asset Managers
     U.S. consumers turned decidedly more pessimistic in October, according to a report released Tuesday, with households increasingly worried about job prospects. The Conference Board, a private research group, said its monthly Consumer Confidence Index fell to 47.7 this month, from a revised... More »
    October 27, 2009 • OIL, XLE, SPY
  • Gold shifts its trading position by talld
    According to my system, Gold shifted around 10/7/2009 and is now trading much more directly (but opposite) on the same factors the US dollar changes on, and much less on all other factors.As you can see, these ETFs normally trade together as if they are a braided rope, and... More »
    October 25, 2009 • GLD, UUP, XLK
  • U.S. Generational Shift is Key to Future Consumer Spending by Beacon Asset Managers
     We admit there are many reasons why the U.S. could enter into a "Lost Decade" similar to that experienced by Japan starting in the 1990s. However, demographics is not one of them. By studying the generational makeup and growth of the U.S. and Japanese consumer (ages 15 to... More »
    October 22, 2009 • ARO, AMZN, AAPL
  • US Sector ETF October Portfolio by Scott's Investments
    Please see the right hand side of Scott's Investments for the October update to the US Sector ETFs. A summary of the data is listed below, including the percent each ETF is above the 200 day moving average. Of note: All of the US sector ETFs are above their 200 day moving average,The top three... More »
    October 1, 2009 • XLB, XLE, XLF
  • MDabbles: Daily Log and Journal for 9/29/09 by FINZ.tv
    Reading Assignments: Risk of an Oil Price SpikeCandidates for 09/29/09World Blank Head See’s Dollar’s Role DiminishingCrude Oil Breaks Trendline (Technical analysis) Market: 3:57 PM RINO Closing on strong volume. I’m holding overnight. 3:08 PM The market has struggled since the... More »
    September 30, 2009 • RINO, DIA, CLI

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