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Fool Me Once, Shame on You. Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me

Clients just have to make 78% plus to make up their losses. Without expenses.

Challenging the Headlines

Some insiders are good..we never hear about them until they are busted. Most insiders that we hear of are not that good and behind the curve.

Country Inflation Rates

Will be of even more value if compared against GDP (last year and last 3-5 years) of each country

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The Top 10 ETF Model Portfolio

US stocks are favored during increasing dollar, else european or emerging countries. During commodity favored and risk taking envirnment emerging countires and commodity rich countries favored. Some of the risks associated with US favor portfolio when using equal weight top 10 assets based etfs (10% each) can be mitigated by 5% equal weight in top 20 etfs which includes small cap, mid, cap, emerging, brazil (commodity, BRIC) and short term treasury.

If you are relative strength fanatics, you can rank top 20 by relative strength and invest in top 3 to 5 etfs! When SHY is at top, shy away from market !!

Strategists Continue to Lower Year-End S&P 500 Price Targets

Good summary but we also need 'confidence level' for each firm and analyst.

U.S. Dollar: Still No Good Alternative

It works both ways.

1. Many currencies specially for emerging region lost their value against dollar in last decade or so, even after we factor in devaluation of dollar (within reasonable limit). No body can tell those countries are faired better by holding dollar reserves instead of their native currencies and reap additional benefit of diversification and risk mitigation.

2. In case of china, their US dollar reserves and their export business that help build those reserves are two sides of same coin. No body can tell where china would have been today without those exports and dollar rserves.

Friday the 13th... Again

Luckily, moon is only 92% full today :-)

The Miracle of the Market Economy

We work more to buy more...

GE Can't Catch a Break

Have heard about falling knives before, but falling sword?

Where Are They Now? A Look at Stocks on 10/10/96

T (ATT is acquired by SWBell)...they just kept ATT name (because of brand recognization..T should be compared with (some form of ) SBC+T combination..

A Look at 10-Year Market Returns

Let's not look at 10 year returns...

The Final Market Bubble

No bubble is 'final' :-(

Don't Be Scammed by Madoff Investor Sob Stories

Good Point. All investors should have same level of protection.

NovaGold Dangerously Close to Broke

First of many ?

Buffett's Gamble: $40 Billion Bet on Volatility

Buffet got close to 11.25% ($4.5B for $40B)premium for the insurance he sold. CDS for Berkshire comes out to be ($440K for $10M) 4.4%. Even if Buffest buys CDS for full amount for Berkshire default he makes 6.85 and gets off the hook ! :-)