Mary Ellen Stevens

Why We Over-Weight Emerging Markets

plusonetwo: you are a spammer. you have placed the same irrelevant message everywhere. you and your kind are not welcome. you just mess up something others of us try to make a valuable dialogue. get the Hell of this site.

Constructing a Portfolio from the Top Down

Financial Analyst Hater and ETFnerd,

Both of you are a disgrace. I have reported you to SA management and asked that you be banned from future comments. Your hateful approach is only matched by your lack of content. You damage the good name of Seeking Alpha and you attack authors without basis.

You hide behind your anonymous status and hurl at authors who make serious efforts at sharing ideas, whether right or wrong. You have no ideas. You have only angry, insulting, empty comments.

The sooner Seeking Alpha bans people like you the better for them and for all of us as readers. Go away! You are not welcome here!

Mary

John Hussman: We May Be Seeing a Phase Transition

Would you gentlemen mind taking this tiresome, overdone exchange with it harsh tones and insult offline? There are plenty of chat rooms where personal issues are exchanged, but this is supposed to be a forum of more general interest and hopefully conducted in a more civil manner.

At best, this is a boring thread. At worst, it is a slow motion written brawl.

Please take it somewhere else.

Many ETFs, Few Investment Opportunities: 127 Investable Funds

Mary, I have reported this issue to SeekingAlpha, but need more information to potentially help you. What are you using MAC or PC? That can make a diifferent sometimes. This was done on PC and unfortunately I have MACS, but not at my curren tlocation (on vacation). Just tested SeekingAlpha and my blog and the images open as intended on PC.

There may be (1) a cross-platform file compatability issue, (2) a temporary internet glitch that may not be a problem if you try again now, or (3) some kind of operator error.

If you try again and it fails, email me and I will send you the image files as attachments:

richard.shaw@QVMgroup....

The Ins and Outs of Terror-Free Investing

MPVALUCH

Thanks for responding. The fact is that the article does not "slam" any company.
The article simply reports on the actions of the government and the issues floating around among states and others to try to get a handle on this particular form of social investing that is also being driven in part by government actions.

The article takes no position on any company and does not take a position on whether terror-free investing is a good or bad idea, helpful or hurtful for international outcomes, or suitable or unsuitable for any person. The article reports on the phenomenon and does not promote the matter one way or the other.

You have misread the article and might look at it once again to see that no opinion is expressed about any company.

If anything, the article suggests that the process might in fact create some undesirable to unjust outcomes in the implementation.

You are certainly correct that SEC filings are historical and SEC reviews of filings take some time after the filing, so it is highly likely that the SEC will continue to list certain companies for a limited period of time as having operations that may have been discontinued.

Sorry the article was upsetting to you, but your emotional reaction is misplaced. If you have concerns about how the SEC does its work, you might direct your concerns to them and not to those who report on the work of the SEC.

Richard Shaw
QVM Group LLC

India CEFs Underperforming Since ETF Launched

I would be interested to know if the NAV of the CEFs kept up with INP. If the NAV is falling behind, it is a management issue. If the NAV has kept up while the discount increased, then it may be an investor reaction that may adjust back to par or a premium. In that case going short INP and long an India CEF might be a good market neutral play to capture the discount. Does that make any sense? Do you have the NAV versus price data?

Overbought/Oversold Commodity ETFs

Thank you for this chart. Very helpful. I echo Michael Bommarito on the question of the basis of the classification as OB, OS and Netural. My question is whether there is label error. I am presuming that Red is OB, Green is OS and Yellow is Neutral. However, the legend shows two Yellows, one labeled OB and one labeled Netural.

Knock On Wood: 928 Days Since S&P 500 Had a One-Day 2% Decline

Actually Bill, I had read it and reqret that you did not chose the same sobriety in your comments on SeekingAlpha. My quess is that more people would have read your work, which seems in-depth, if you had expressed simple disagreement with a link to your work instead of saying what you said, the way you said it here.

Congratulations on your study in the article you reference and shame for your continued use of crude and rude descriptives here.

Mary Ellen

Knock On Wood: 928 Days Since S&P 500 Had a One-Day 2% Decline

Mr. NoDooDahs,

You owe more than an apology to PanSkeptic, you owe an apology to SeekingAlpha and its community for compromising the sober and serious tone of this website. The vulgarity you so proudly display does not add value, but reduces this thread to the low level a common chat room, and does nothing to cause readers to consider the possibly meritorious portions of your comments.

It is the way of a coward to debate by arguing against the other person instead of against the other idea. Prefacing your argument against the idea by attacking the competency of those who think differently than you does nothing for your own investment idea. If anything, it brings your idea into question.

Are you so lacking in self-confidence that you must begin your response by attempting to tear down the serious work to which you are responding? Aren't you assured enough of the quality of your own thinking that it could stand on its own without speaking crudely and rudely about article authors?

Those of us interested in a serious exchange of ideas do not want to read attack statements. We want ideas. If enough people like you post enough statements like yours, the ultimate outcome will be that SeekingAlpha may have to eliminate responses altogether or suffer a downward spiral to mere chat room status, and that would be the end of SeekingAlpha.

A serious community respects responses expressing disagreement and who offer substantive alternative data or arguments, but does not respect and does not want to read angry or self-inflated attacks on contributors who are making honest statements of their own views.

Statements like these of yours are unflattering to you, offensive to me and many others, and harmful to the purpose and future of SeekingAlpha.

"This is fairly typical BS, technically true, but meaningless and insight-less."

"No, it means you should consult a frickin' dictionary and get your head out of your butt."

If you wish to be vulgar and angry and to argue ad hominem, then for the sake of the rest of us, please confine your approach to your own website where you are at liberty to be as crude and vulgar as you please.


Mary Ellen