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  • Fractured Wall Street Fairy Tales #2: Awful News Is the Same as Good News [View article]
    Ahh sigh. Gotta love these articles about how if you take a short position and the market goes up the reason is manipulation, irrational investor behavior, PPT conspiracy, the volume is too low for it to be a real rally and dammit this thing had better retest the lows according to my technical analysis. Not to mention that the Dow and Gold are going to be equal real soon now.

    Well here is the clue. The market doesn't care about these theories. The market is going to go up or down despite the best intentions and well laid plans of investors.

    What the real story is that you have to be nimble and brave. Get in when the corpses are rotting in the street. And get out when the touts are saying "all in" the market can't ever go down again.
    Jul 23 16:17 pm |Rating: +3 -1 |Link to Comment
  • Bogle: Investors 'Getting Killed' in ETFs [View article]
    OK I give that ETFs as people use them are not working in aggregate.

    However I like them as I can often find ETFs that have lower costs than a mutual fund on the same topic. Many of these low cost ETFs are in fact ETFs offered by Vanguard.

    Leveraged ETFs are a tool for market professionals. All too often they are a means of capturing losses but not gains.
    Jun 19 11:42 am |Rating: +3 0 |Link to Comment
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