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Observations and Stocks for Tuesday
Teresa is in and out of the office this week; blogging will resume soon.
And the Winners Are…
The stock scan conducted after the close on Monday found 50 winners and 43 losers.
The winners are listed in alphabetical order below. Click on the column headers to sort the list. Our scan criteria incorporates price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average of 1.5 million).
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Rubin Advises Quick Action to Fix Economic Crises
Citigroup executive Robert Rubin says proposals by the top three presidential candidates and others to attempt to fix the housing and [...]
Mad Money Stocks for Tuesday
ATN and BAP were added today. The Booyah list is comprised of featured and game plan stocks mentioned by Jim Cramer on Mad Money. The stocks are listed in alphabetical order below. Click on the headers to sort by column.
Observations and Stocks for Monday
I will be in and out of the office this week; blogging will resume soon.
And the Winners Are…
The stock scan conducted after the close on Friday found 16 winners and 74 losers.
The winners are listed in alphabetical order below. Click on the column headers to sort the list. Our scan criteria incorporates price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average of 1.5 million).
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Bagehot, central banking, and the financial crisis
The current crisis is a modern form of a traditional banking crisis. The 125-year-old Bagehot’s doctrine tells us how governments should [...]
Mad Money Stocks for Monday
TXT was added today. The Booyah list is comprised of featured and game plan stocks mentioned by Jim Cramer on Mad Money. The stocks are listed in alphabetical order below. Click on the headers to sort by column.
Maintaining a “strong” Icelandic Krona
Pundits have spent the last months beating on U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson over his apparent oxymoronic comments about “a strong Dollar”, but can you imagine what would have happened if they pursued the course Iceland has chosen?
Bloomberg reports:
Iceland’s central bank raised its key interest rate by a record 1.25 percentage points at an emergency meeting to halt a slump in the krona and a surge in inflation. The currency made its biggest ever jump against the euro.
Sedlabanki raised the repo rate to 15 percent, the Reykjavik-based bank said on its Web site today. It hadn’t planned to hold a [...]
Observations and Stocks for Wednesday
I was out of the office today.
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And the Winners Are…
The stock scan conducted after the close on Tuesday found 49 winners and 8 losers.
The winners are listed in alphabetical order below. Click on the column headers to sort the list. Our scan criteria incorporates price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average of 1.5 million).
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Media Digest
Yamakawa Expects BOJ to Cut Rates by 25 Basis Points
Tetsufumi Yamakawa, chief Japan economist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., talked with Bloomberg’s Mike Firn in [...]
Mad Money Stocks for Wednesday
HCP and UBS were added today. The Booyah list is comprised of featured and game plan stocks mentioned by Jim Cramer on Mad Money. The stocks are listed in alphabetical order below. Click on the headers to sort by column.
Observations and Stocks for Tuesday
I won’t elaborate on the irony in the timing of this “special report” by The Economist.
FYI: Part 8 of Build Your Own Investment Portfolio was uploaded yesterday. We also took a look at how one old trader transformed himself into a quant.
Jeff asked about Ed Thorp’s book Beat The Street which was mentioned in a weekend WSJ article. Forget the book: I will upload his important research papers and discuss the Kelly Criterion in tonight’s podcast for subscribers.
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And the Winners Are…
The stock scan conducted after [...]
David Aronson: Re-Education of a Trader
Before the oopsie of 2007, Victor Niederhoffer and his Matador Fund Ltd. won the 2006 MARHedge Annual European Performance Award in the CTA category. I will never forget watching a number of clips on MARHedgeTV where he touted Steve Wisdom’s expertise in “multivariate statistics”, all the while telling the audience that in America, it is tradition to give second chances. It was brilliant.
So you can imagine my amazement this morning when I saw Jeffrey Saut’s investment strategy [PDF]:
According to professor David Aronson, as reprised by Mark Hulbert, “[we used] data from the beginning of 1942 through [...]
Mad Money Stocks for Tuesday
HRB and WY were added today. The Booyah list is comprised of featured and game plan stocks mentioned by Jim Cramer on Mad Money. The stocks are listed in alphabetical order below. Click on the headers to sort by column.
Building Your Investment Portfolio, Part 8
In Part 7, we reviewed two principles upon which portfolios are built.
Let’s construct a portfolio for our archetype client, defined in Part 5: professional, owns a house, 15-20 years from retirement, takes full advantage of an employer-matched plan, has 3 dollars in the retirement account for every dollar in the trading account.
The Core Portfolio
Employer-matched plans tend to offer investment choices among traditional asset classes. Virtually all plans offer the equivalent of the following four exchange traded funds:
U.S. Equities: S&P 500 (SPY), inception date 1993.01.29
International Equities: MSCI EAFE Index Fund (EFA), inception date 2001.08.14
U.S. Treasury Bonds: Lehman [...]
Observations and Stocks for Monday
Hope everyone is enjoying a good and safe long weekend.
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And the Winners Are…
The stock scan conducted after the close on Thursday found 46 winners and 50 losers.
The winners are listed in alphabetical order below. Click on the column headers to sort the list. Our scan criteria incorporates price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average of 1.5 million).
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McGuire of Commodity Warrants [...]
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