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Mad Money Stocks for Monday
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 7
In Part 6, we analyzed what investors might consider to be an advanced article on portfolio construction and asset allocation.
Let’s review the two core principles upon which we build a portfolio:
Principle #1: Asset Classes Defined According to Function
David Swensen said it best, stating “Careful investors define asset classes in terms of function, relating security characteristics to the role expected from a particular group of investments.” Furthermore:
Purity of asset class represents a rarely achieved ideal. Carried to an extreme, investors define dozens of asset classes, creating an unmanageable multiplicity of alternatives. While market participants disagree on [...]
Observations and Stocks for Thursday
It was another roller coaster day in the capital markets with commodities taking it on chin, price action unfolding according to script. In the meantime, we published Part 5 and Part 6 of our Build Your Own Investment Portfolio series.
The interview of the day is with James Hamilton. He “spoke with Bloomberg’s Tom Keene on March 18 about the Federal Reserve’s decision to lower its benchmark interest rate by three quarters of a percentage point to 2.25 percent, Fed funds futures, and oil and gold prices.” [DOWNLOAD PODCAST]
P.S. Yes, I have read Hamilton’s Time Series Analysis. ;-)
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Mad Money Stocks for Thursday
JPM and OI 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 6
In Part 5, we reviewed the two major roadblocks to achieving one’s goals. In this article, we will analyze a typical article that investors have come to accept as gospel.
The critic — no doubt with good intentions designed to set me straight — submitted two articles:
An Easier Path to Real Returns
The Benefits of Low Correlation
After reading them, may I suggest:
1. Avoid The Rear View Mirror
The problem with both articles is that they emphasize inflation protection. As recently as 2003, the investment world was focused on deflation.
Commodities were not in vogue until the last year [...]
Building Your Investment Portfolio, Part 5
I had expected Part 4 to be the last of the series, but after it was published, two things happened to warrant more articles:
A (presumably) well-meaning skeptic wrote to me and ended up giving me all sorts of grief about portfolio construction. I didn’t think it was possible for the world of investing is an even bigger sideshow than trading, but then again, there is a lot more commission and advisory dollars at stake so anything goes. In trading, they always use the “well chosen example”; with portfolios, they dazzle and blind ‘em with statistics. Asset [...]
Observations and Stocks for Wednesday
Ever since the Bear Sterns news hit the wires on Sunday, I have read blogs and email echoing the financial armageddon theme:
The banks are cooked; the Fed is cooked. And there was Dr. Ron Paul telling it like it is. I hope you watch the video of his exchange yesterday with Chairman Bernanke. In fact, watch any time this man speaks if you want to know why America is in trouble today.
Now is the time to start focusing on where you intend to place your assets at the appropriate time. . . today you should be at a 90-95% [...]
Mad Money Stocks for Wednesday
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.
The Morning After Reality Check
I am so disappointed with Jimmy Rogers and the tinfoil hat gurus. Even though I understand that fear is a powerful marketing tool used to sell newsletters, books and canned food, their predatory practices strike me as being extremely opportunist and unethical in times like this.
Their actions compel me to act as a ballast, and with that in mind, check out the following items. For starters, Bear Sterns was NOT bailed out:
Market Bailouts and the “Fed Put”
The Federal Reserve has no funds and no authority to provide capital or guarantees to firms to provide a bailout in [...]
What’s the Story? AEM, VLO and VMC
We have been posting the winners of the Keynesian Beauty Contest daily for some time, a daily stock scan that incorporates price movement, range and liquidity.
The scan is the first cut. As Teresa has said in the past, stock trading is also a seasonal activity: at the firm, they traded “story” stocks with volume, stuff that was “in play”, the bubbles of the month. They didn’t pick the stocks; the market did it for them. Once the game was over, they moved on to other ticker symbols.
Today we will look at the ’stories’ behind of a few [...]
Observations and Stocks for Tuesday
Senator Chuck Schumer has never been the sharpest tool in the shed, but today he sounded like a Nobel laureate on the vanguard of modern economic thought [SEE VIDEO] compared to Jim “Investment Biker” Rogers [SEE VIDEO]. Has anyone told Mr. Rogers that his view is consensus opinion? Methinks there is mass hysteria going on…
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And the Winners Are…
The stock scan conducted after the close on Monday found 6 winners and 232 losers.
The winners are listed in alphabetical order below. Click on the column [...]
Mad Money Stocks for Tuesday
MRK, SGP and TUP 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.
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