Archive | March, 2010

Market Barometers for Thursday

Let's transform these statistics into market barometers to give us the big picture.
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Correlation and Volatility for Wednesday

This correlation matrix tracks short-term movements in asset classes found in our investment portfolios at RetirementBuilder.ORG while the daily and weekly volatility analysis helps to identify extremes.
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Hedge Ratios for Wednesday

Hedge ratios are used to calculate the amount of inverse ETFs needed to hedge ETFs found in the investment portfolios at RetirementBuilder.ORG.
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Insight and Analysis for Wednesday (Video)

Using the method outlined in How to Find the Needle in a Haystack, Part 4, let’s take a look at the sectors represented by the nine Sector SPDRs along with gold, real estate and biotechnology. Video after the jump.
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Is There a Surprise Coming? Part 2

It was reported this morning that consumer confidence and home prices numbers were up. The debate among strategists becomes “is the data baked into the price?”
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Q&A: Bonds and Interest Rates

A member asks, "Do you have any articles about correlations between interest rate and TLT?"
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The Hot 100 (or so) Stocks for Wednesday

The Hot 100 is a list drawn from three sources that claim to have expertise in picking momentum stocks. Rank and stop losses are updated daily.
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Trading Ideas for Wednesday

The stock scan performed after the close found 30 winners and 6 losers. They have been ranked along with 300+ ETFs, all S&P 100/NASDAQ 100 Index constituent stocks and 60 optionable indexes.
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