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Crude Oil Back Above $110; Trading Halted (Briefly)
Hopefully, markets will become rational both on the upside and the downside but markets are what they are and no one is forced to play the game.
I won't and I don't.
Big Week for ETFs
The Nature of Risk
To use statistics to try and understand risk is lazy. Considering that human nature is impossible to explain, what makes anyone think a computer can make sense of what they are going to do. Statistics can measure some risks but it is my experience that one should not put much confidence, let alone wealth, in anyone trying to predict using them.
Good old fundamentals combined with technical analysis, intellect, skill and guts will trump any statistician, none of whom I ever heard of making big money in markets for any substantial period of time. Even a stopped clock is correct twice a day.
The title of my Graduate School thesis decades ago was "Beta is Bull Shit". It is like telling one what was in last weeks newspaper.
More on ETFs and the Trading Landscape
Although I have made some money in ETFs, as an analyst I detest them. But, I didn't last fifty years in this business without being adaptable.
Hedge Fund Hell
I just happened on this article by accident, as I asked to be removed from the e-mail list, as I usually disregard anyone who claims to be ha hedge fund manager.
Many years ago, when I started as a professional, we actually did hedge our bets.
Wal-Mart vs. Target: A Better Starting Point
Will Sprint's Instinct Go Satellite with Sirius XM?
Thanks!
5 Potential Buyout Targets in Biotech - Barron's
In this day where primary research is virtually missing and everyone seems to be peddling their portfolio, it would be refreshing to get sound reasoning backed by substantive facts rather than mere opinions which are worth exactly what you pay for them.
The End Run Around the Operating System Is Under Way
"Constructive Destruction" provides great product.
Will the change come from the entitlement-laden American worker of for some genius from another country who went to one of our "prestigious"... universities on a grant or scholarship from the American taxpayer so he or she can take their expertise to the homeland and exploit America's misplaced largess?
Just How Correlated Are Oil and Equities?
Sprint Fights Back
Time for Congressional Term Limits so that we can have more political and business competition and presurve the Free Enterprise System from predatory capitalism.
Microsoft Unencouraging
It's a company that is too big to make meaningful growth as the growth will be at the margins.
Virtually no one has made any real money investing in MSFT in almost a decade. It is a good example for budding security analysts of when a great company reaches maturity.
Does Al Gore Finally Get It?
With this and him getting us out of the Kennedy/Johnson War in Vietnam, the one world government had to get him out of office for supporting his friends regarding a petty, silly breakin which only resulted in getting a list of Washington hookers.
SEC Shorting Restrictions: Are Some Banks Being Set Up?
Then you have the GSE's so actually 60% of the Commercial Banks protected by The SEC are controlled Foreign Bank shareholders.
How blatantly bias can the SEC be? If they did their job for the past ten years instead of being controlled by the "Street", which actually they always have been but not so blatantly, none of this would be necessary.
For your readers who are not aware of this, the Federal Reserve Board does not examine banks. The Comptroller of the Currency (Treasury), FDIC (which is a government corporation financed by bank insurance premiums, and the various state regulators. So when you see the media and politicians complaining about the Fed's audit of banks (banks do have "independent"... auditors, which is a farce) they patently do not know of what they speak.
Bolt Technology: Charged for Growth
For the individual who refers to "this market environment" and obviously is a trader, who seldom win, I have been a professional investor for close to fifty hears and if you think this is a tough market you haven't been around. Oil prices will reach a price which rations the demand and the real estate market has already done all of the damage it can do. Of course, there will be many more problems but that is where we get opportunities to invest. Trading is a losers game only the "house" wins.
Fifty years and I am still at.