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Mini Monthly Trend Report Market Update

March 1, 2012
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Mini Monthly Trend Report Market Update

Money is pouring into stocks, particularly financials right now, Central Banks are buying US equities, oil is set on fire and the stocks, especially the leaders held up strong in the face of metals like Copper and Gold and Silver tanking yesterday. Well the market also gets pushed further into risk with the low...

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Historic Investing Valuation Extremes Point To Real Estate In 2012

February 22, 2012
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Historic Investing Valuation Extremes Point To Real Estate In 2012

Let’s have a look at housing. Investing In Real estate in 2012 looks like a good investment idea in the US. So why exactly might buying real estate as an investment in 2012 be a good idea? According to Shadowstats, inflation adjusted income is at 1950 levels. Of course, production has been high and...

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Investment Strategy And Philosophy

February 20, 2012
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I would like to say a bit on a matter of investment strategy and philosophy, sometimes repeating something that seems simple in isolation makes a world of a difference in how you perceive the big picture. There is a great guide to investing in stocks here that piggy backs off of many of these...

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Identifying Upwards Earnings Revisions

February 14, 2012
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There is an excellent effect of earnings revisions on stock prices. I believe these are also some of the major factor behind the Zack’s ranting system. The PPT has a screener that can help you with this as well, to go with the Fly’s updates and the communities comments on stocks, and of course...

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Februrary Trend Trader

February 6, 2012
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I decided to go with the posts titled “trend trader” for use explaining the individual industries and stock and etf selections and their weightings. The Trend Report will instead just analyze the market, the economy, etc. When you expect the market to move strongly to the upside, and present high upside, limited downside with...

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February Trend Report

February 6, 2012
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February Trend Report

Mutual fund cash levels July 2011 3.3% cash August 2011: 3.4% cash Sept 2011 3.8%R Oct 2011 3.5% Nov 2011 3.5% December 2011 3.5% historically very low 10 year PE 22.47 (EP yield 4.45%) Historically slightly higher but still reasonable. S&P div yield 1.97 (historically low) 10 year treasury around 2% (historically near all time...

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Pull back likely

January 23, 2012
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Pull back likely

With markets severely overbought now, you have entered in the area where the return is likely to be less going forward and the risk is likely to be higher. The reason being that the more people that buy, the less on the sideline and elsewhere available to fuel the rally. Of course in the...

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The Guide To Investing In Stocks

January 16, 2012
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The Guide To Investing In Stocks

In investing you want to seek individual investments that are the outliers, that represent low risk, and high return. Additionally you may consider betting against those that represent high risk, low return for investors. In any case, you want to seek out the “outliers” of the following chart. Although everyone wants a higher return,...

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2012 investment plan

January 12, 2012
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If you are to invest in the stock market, it is wise to have a plan, this guide to investing in 2012 should prove worthy as any. How do you invest in 2012? The key concepts remain the same, only the variables change. Intelligent investing requires understanding all market conditions that can possibly exist,...

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Predictions For 2012 Part 2

January 1, 2012
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1) (space reserved to insert something that happens in 2012 after the act to appear prophetic) 2)The increased leveraged in the euro to try to save it will be like an atom in nuclear fission with 1 too many protons… It becomes unstable until it causes a chain reaction. We’ve seen it happen time...

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