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    • Sat Oct 11th 18:33 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Largest Bond ETF Now Trading At a Massive Discount
      From a typical bond fund disclaimer:

      "Risks include interest-rate risk, market risk, credit risk, foreign security risk, and prepayment risk. A decrease in interest rates usually causes an increase in value of bonds. An increase, or the expectation of an increase in interest rates generally causes a decrease in the value of bonds."

      I'm sure there are other bond funds that depend on other specific conditions. Anyone wish to add to this thread?
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    • Sat Oct 11th 18:28 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Largest Bond ETF Now Trading At a Massive Discount
      I'm surprised that the author did not review the conditions under which a bond fund would drop in value. Just like the brokers that sell municipal bonds to retirees, baiting them with tax advantages and interest rates, they imply that bonds do not lose their face value. Everything can lose value, and this article's failure to review that undermines the author's assertion.
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    • Sat Oct 11th 18:09 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Is Gold A Sucker's Bet?
      As "Not Sure" detailed so well, the author is a contrary indicator, and I'm looking forward to the rise in PM value. Thanks in advance, AB.
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    • Sat Oct 11th 17:32 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Is Gold A Sucker's Bet?
      Central Banks are not selling their gold reserves any longer. Why? The same reason that gold, silver and energy plummeted at 2pm EST on Friday, when the margin clerks forced the sell. This is the last thing a hedge fund or broker would sell under pressure. They sold everything else first, and these items last. How do we know? If Friday was not the "final capitulation", then I am wrong. As a clarification, I am not including market indexes (filled with about-to-be slaughtered financial stocks) as the reference. I'm using the various collection of commodity indexes found on Bloomberg.

      www.bloomberg.com/mark...

      Even oil sold off before gold. Strange, no?
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    • Sat Oct 11th 13:47 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      How to Handle a Snap-Back Rally (If We Get One)
      What I meant by saying to react to a rally by buying an ultra-inverse fund is that you expect the rally is a relief rally and has no legs. Something like SDS goes down in price and you start a position, adding to it in increasing increments as the rally continues. If the rally results in another major down-leg, your position in SDS helps lessen the blow to your portfolio of other holdings.
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    • Sat Oct 11th 13:44 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      How to Handle a Snap-Back Rally (If We Get One)
      I like the run down and graphics, but you never answered the title (teaser) of your post. Obviously you can handle a rally by buying inverse ETF's of various degrees, like SDS, MZZ, SRS etc. You can hedge against inflation by buying GLD, SLV or if you think we're in deflation, go against gold with DZZ. If oil drops and you think it has bottomed at some magical number, say $50/barrel, buy DIG or USO. If you think it's headed for $30, buy DUG.

      Maybe you just want to keep it simple and go "short"
      www.proshares.com/fund...=

      or long....
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      It may be a good time for investors to sit down and lay out their options which is something I had hoped this article would have a little more of.
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    • Fri Oct 10th 20:23 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Bulls Take a Stand - Cramer's Stop Trading! (10/10/08)
      BTW, the title has Tuesday. Don't you dare send me back in time to experience that week over again! As for Cramer, I actually canceled premium cable so that I would no longer even accidentally see his face screaming idiot advice on CNBC. I do check in here to see what lunacy he's pitching though, as logic would dictate that when he announced to "sell this market" and "don't buy stocks for five years" if you need to keep your money safe, all of his shows should end. It's not like he's dispensing gardening tips, or teaching you how to drywall. What use is he now? Sure, what use was he before? He kept us all in the game so his Wall Street buddies could slaughter our 401K's, IRA's, and stock trading accounts. Bravo, my good man. Bravo....
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    • Thu Oct 9th 15:26 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      IBM's Quarter Can Lead the Equity Market Recovery
      Judging by today's action, you, like almost every contributor to this website, are wrong.
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    • Thu Oct 9th 14:07 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      100% Cash and Out of Sample Returns
      That post was very similar to the message board posts that I see everyday. ...like....

      "how to really pick stocks"
      "stop wasting your money"
      "amazing results"
      "I doubled my money in two days"
      "wow can you believe this"
      "double your money, just visit!"

      and my favorite.....

      "this program is blowing my mind"
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    • Thu Oct 9th 00:32 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Torpedo Dry Ships - Cramer's Lightning Round (10/8/08)
      These stocks are selling for 20-80% off of the prices that Cramer advised to buy them and now he cannot recommend this market. I guarantee you that once the market recovers, he'll stand there with his hands on his hips bragging about how he "kept you in the game". Oh, it's a game alright.
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    • Thu Oct 9th 00:28 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Clueless - Cramer's Mad Money (10/8/08)
      So the first part of his show was spend chastising Bernanke and admitting that stocks were to be avoided, while the rest of the show, and his programming schedule for the remainder of the year will have him touting one sector after another. If he remains true to form, he'll push each sector after it has already moved while telling his viewers to sell any sector that has bottomed. The man's a menace. I'd love to know how many investors he has bankrupted over the past year-and-a-half, that he has known we are in a bear market cycle.
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    • Sat Oct 4th 21:26 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Ups and Downs of Drips
      DRIPS were my favorite way to invest, for a decade, and I blogged about them extensively. When the stock market became a casino, around the summer of 2007, I realized that no one could handle investing for years, with month after month of dollar-value investing, only to see their nest egg crushed within three trading sessions, by hedge fund hooligans "outwitting" one another. It's like trying to grow a victory garden while a bunch of idiotic teen-agers "backyard wrestle" in your plantings.
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    • Sat Oct 4th 21:07 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Real Reasons Fertilizer Stocks Are In the Dirt
      I know, company's should have been companies...I was laughing too hard and my eyes were all teary.
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    • Sat Oct 4th 21:05 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Real Reasons Fertilizer Stocks Are In the Dirt
      The readers are once again, infinitely more intelligent than the poster. This article and the responses were reminiscent of Professor Mark Perry's, idiotic musings. I think back to December 2007, when the nutty Professor wondered how a world with a market capitalization of $63T could care about a silly $300B sub-prime problem?

      mjperry.blogspot.com/2...

      Oh god, how I laughed. Sure, why would an economics professor know about capital ratios, "mark-to-market&q... etc. The Professor thought we collectively created three times the world's wealth, by working our butts off from 2002-2007! Now we are told to believe that company's that continue to generate vast sums of money, based on feeding hungry people, are worth a third of what they were two months ago. There are some Seeking Alpha authors that have missed their true journalistic calling. Children's fiction.
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    • Sat Oct 4th 15:29 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Ongoing Market Sell-Off: It's Not The Short Sellers
      It was the hedge fund redemption. They got creamed in September, after getting slaughtered in August. Also, since when are market indexes a thermometer? Every pundit this weekend is pushing their unique observation that the market went down after the TARP was passed. From this single dynamic, they are extracting a never-ending series of self-serving political stances, and economic predictions. Did someone tell you that the moment the President's ink hit the page that everyone's credit problem would miraculously vanish? Our economy's the QE2, not an airboat.
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