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Thursday Outlook: No Inflation? Who Knew?!

David Fry:
Enjoy your posts but wonder about the value of tracking the QQQQ based on David Jackson's analysis of it excerpted below:

"the NASDAQ 100 is a slightly unusual index that makes its popularity baffling. It’s dominated by large capitalization technology stocks, but it’s not a pure technology index. In fact, it excludes some of the largest US technology stocks, such as IBM and HPQ, which are traded on the New York Stock Exchange. As a result, if you want to make a concentrated sector investment in technology stocks you’re better off buying the Technology Sector ETF, ticker (XLK).

Moreover, many NASDAQ 100 stocks also appear in the S&P 500, so if you hold both QQQQ and IVV (or SPY) you have significant overlap in your portfolio.

And finally, a more conceptual point: there seem to be many suitable criteria for inclusion in a stock index (such as market cap, industry sector, or growth/value), but which exchange the stock is traded on doesn’t seem to me to be one of them. QQQQ, which tracks 100 stocks traded on the NASDAQ exchange, is thus a weird beast."
(seekingalpha.com/artic...)

Thursday Outlook: Range-Bound Trading

Blaine- Not Reagan. Bush.
Low volume on most charts.
Chucky no longer relevant. Soylent Green anyone ?