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ETF Ideas from Mr. Market

How do you get a sort from "high to low based on 5 DEMA minus 20 DEMA" aren't the srocks with the highest $ prices going to give you the highest scores?

Blame Game Redux: 8 More Things to Blame for This Crisis

23) Investment banks. "They made a lot for a while, and then lost more" Not really, the guys at the IB's who created this mess took tens (in some cases hundreds) of millions in bonus money, then got fired, but their bonus money is in Treasurys and they are left with more money than they or their heirs could spend in a lifetime. Witness the genius at AIG who ran their CDS book. He was paid $230 million over 8 years to drive that company into oblivion. It's the stockholdhers and the taxpayer who lost money

Is There a More Efficient Shorting Tactic?

Interesting, but on a more fundamental level it's curious why any institution or large holder would lend the stocks of these companies at all. Sure they make pennies lending while losing huge $ as the shorts crush the stocks in what has been a can't lose one way trade for a year

Seven Comments on Equity Investing

re: Bill Miller and Bear Stearns. i think it was 1992 when Warren Buffett said that broker dealer financial statements were "totally incomprehensable." Book values there are smoke and mirrors