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Trading Ideas for Wednesday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Tuesday found 24 winners and 24 losers. Click on the column headers to sort the list below.
The scan is designed to find stocks that are current “in play”; criteria includes price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average volume of 1.5 million shares). The entire list has been ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Please refer to the podcast for background information.
Portfolio Strategy for May 27
There is no commentary for this week’s issue. I’m in Mexico City and the 7,000+ feet altitude is not agreeing with me much. Sorry for the inconvenience.
ACTION FOR THIS WEEK
The Conservative Retirement portfolio was rebalanced on May 1, 2008 and requires no further action until June 2, 2008.
ALLOCATION FOR THE STRATEGIC PERFORMANCE PORTFOLIO
This portfolio should be rebalanced at the open on Tuesday, May 27 to the following percentages:
18.78% VXF
14.20% EEM
12.60% GSG
25.61% FXF
28.81% TLT
ALLOCATION FOR THE EX-U.S. PORTFOLIO
This portfolio should be rebalanced at the open on Tuesday, May 27 to the following percentages:
22.45% IEV
10.47% EEB
13.55% EWC
14.87% EWW
12.75% GSG
25.91% [...]
Podcast: A Look at Gold
On May 13, we alerted Portfolio Strategy subscribers to the overlooked outlook for gold.
While researching Trading Ideas for Wednesday, I noticed there was a new-found flight to safety into gold stocks. It seems that The Goldbugs were getting excited over a broken downtrend line to the upside.
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Five gold-related companies found by the stock scan: AEM, AUY, EGO, GG and NEM. Today, we will look at three of the strongest performing companies of late: EGO, AEM, and GG.
streetTRACKS Gold Trust (GLD)
Metals – [...]
Trading Ideas for Thursday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Wednesday found 20 winners and 72 losers. Click on the column headers to sort the list below.
The scan is designed to find stocks that are current “in play”; criteria includes price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average volume of 1.5 million shares). The entire list has been ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Please refer to the podcast for background information.
Podcast: Oil & Gas Operations Industry and BRK
In a recent podcast for Portfolio Strategy subscribers, we discussed crude oil and oil-related ETF’s.
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Our daily stock scan found 88 Trading Ideas for Monday. What stood out was the fact that 22 of those were companies in the energy sector. Today, we will focus on the oil & gas operations industry and look at three of the strongest performing companies (PXP, EOG, ECA).
As an extra bonus, we’ll be looking at a short call made by Doug Kass that is getting a [...]
Trading Ideas for Wednesday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Tuesday found 41 winners and 36 losers. Click on the column headers to sort the list below.
The scan is designed to find stocks that are current “in play”; criteria includes price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average volume of 1.5 million shares). The entire list has been ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Please refer to the podcast for background information.
Trading Ideas for Tuesday
I was out of the office today. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Podcast: Managing a Portfolio
In today’s podcast, we discuss the New Realities of Personal Finance, the technical differences between trading and actively managing an investment portfolio, and why true diversification coupled with a dynamic asset allocation process is the only way to respond to market forces.
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In case you missed it yesterday, we did a podcast exclusive to subscribers that reviewed the InVivo objective sentiment survey, crude oil, ETF rankings and digressed a little into the philosophy of Wu Wei.
Performance of InVivo Model Portfolios
The table below shows [...]
Trading Ideas for Monday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Friday found 77 winners and 11 losers. Click on the column headers to sort the list below.
The scan is designed to find stocks that are current “in play”; criteria includes price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average volume of 1.5 million shares). The entire list has been ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Please refer to the podcast for background information.
Podcast: Sentiment, Oil & ETF Ranking
In today’s podcast, we review the InVivo objective sentiment survey, crude oil, ETF rankings and digress a little into philosophy:
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Objective Sentiment Survey
The InVivo Objective Sentiment Survey tracks the number of buy and sell signals amongst the constituent stocks of the S&P 100 and NASDAQ 100 indexes. If you wish to compare this to the previous week, last week’s numbers are here.
At the close, the S&P 100 index had 66 on buy and 34 on sell while the NASDAQ 100 index had [...]
Portfolio Strategy for May 19
This past week saw in a number of commodities continue upwards and a new high set in the Canadian equity market. The U.S. Dollar treaded water while bonds perked up a touch.
Action for Tihs Week
The Strategic Performance and Ex-U.S. model portfolios should be rebalanced at the open on Monday, May 19 according to percentages indicated on their respective pie charts below. The Conservative Retirement portfolio was rebalanced on May 1, 2008 and requires no further action until June 2, 2008.
Performance of InVivo Model Portfolios
The table below shows the performance of our model portfolios on a total [...]
A Conversation with Bill Moyers
Leave it to Charles Rose to spend an hour with Bill Moyers who provided seasoned insight into the current environment in the U.S. within a historical context. It’s a really good piece. If you have kids, they might like Noodles on My Back.
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