- Indices Break Out of October Downtrend, Showing Signs of Life Ahead of Election
The indices finally began to show some signs of life last week with a firm break of the October downtrend. While I have been increasingly bullish on this market, I did not expect the market to rally with such force as it did on Tuesday ahead of the GDP number, the Fed decision and [...]
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- Historic Volatility
Here a graph which shows some not so surprising news, the current market is the most volatile the U.S. market has been over the last 80 years (based on the S&P 500). The volatility last month makes the 1987 crash look like nothing.
There are a lot more interesting stats in the article that a more
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- A painful squeeze on short sellers
Still looking for a last-minute Halloween costume to scare those trick-or-treaters knocking on your door? Just put on a suit and tie and start bashing bank stocks. Eek! A short seller!
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- Captain's Blog, Stardate: 3/3/08
THE SHOW: Are we having fun yet? Me neither. My old pal Deep Blue keeps writing me about various stocks and such that might have upside, but then acknowledges it's hard to imagine much of anything working this year. Except cash, and you better hope that's real cash and not some sort of 'cash equival more
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- Backtesting Can Help Improve Your Manual Trading
When I started automated trading a few months ago, I jumped head first into backtesting with the thought that it was essential to automated trading. While there’s no doubt that automated trading and backtesting go hand in hand, what I’ve discovered over time is that learning what makes more
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- Hong Kong leads Asia markets higher
Hong Kong shares led Asia Pacific markets higher on Monday by rising as much as 5.6 per cent early in the morning session, making a good start to the trading month after October's big losses across the region more
Source: FT.com - Asia Pacific Equities Market Data
- Bond markets
Now David Rosenberg, a well-respected economist at Merrill Lynch, thinks the current Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, may introduce a “Bernanke put”, this time for the bond market. The topic arises because of the Fed’s recent cut in interest rates to 1%, posing the question of what the more
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- Spooky Stocks 2008
It's time to celebrate Halloween by revealing this year's Spooky Stocks - i.e. the stocks most likely to scare investors and blow away their returns. Before we do so, let's first take a look at the performance of previous spooky... more
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- America will find opportunity in scarcity
We need a leader who understands the importance of investment in ideas and technology for our future, writes Eric Schmidt more
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- The Show Must Go On
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- Observations for Monday
As we go to press, Asian markets are extending gains from last week.
Sex, Religion and … Politics
All eyes are on Tuesday’s election. What I find most interesting are the poll numbers juxtaposed to world opinion. With most of the planet pulling for regime change (in Britain and even more
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- Monday Watch
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- China: Killer Balance Sheets Striking Terror
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- A 'short' look at Proshares ETFs
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- Links for 2008-10-31 [del.icio.us]
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- Spain’s Economy, ETF Back-Pedal
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- Marsh on Monday: Mervyn the governor and his tales of doom
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The British are nothing if not insouciant at times of crisis. Bank of England Governor Mervyn King opened a recent rather severe speech on the economic unrest with a gentle anecdote about schoolboy cricket. David Blanchflower, the most bearish of the central bank's monetary p more
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- In the Shadow of FDR and Reagan
Will stocks rally with a new face in the White House? History offers no clear lessons, but that doesn't stop investors from looking for signs in Tuesday's vote.
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PMCGX has followed the overall market and resumed its ascending. Currently, it's in overbought condition indicated by both RSI and Stochastic. As we can see from prior history, the overbought or oversold condition could stay there for a while. I do plan to close or at least to square some money off the table next week as our 401(k) plan will have a week of black out period when the plan is to be adjusted with a few changes. As we all knew from history such as Enron debacle, black out period could be very risky although the mutual funds are much more diversified in this regard. One company imploding would not make a fund to plummet.
