Category: Investing 2009
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Monday, February 08, 2010
Stocks Bear Market and Crash Bomb Damage Assessment for Key Asset Categories / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
This article takes a look at results for important asset categories since several key dates: (1) the approximate October 2007 stock markets high, (2) the approximate March 2009 stock markets low, (3) YTD 2010, and (4) since the January 19, 2010 election breaking the 60% Democrat super-majority in the US Senate.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
U.S. Investor End of Year Tax Loss Harvesting and Other Strategies / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Nilus_Mattive
Since I’m not only doing the usual holiday running around, but also trying to prepare for an upcoming three-week trip to India, I’m acutely aware of just how hectic this time of the year can be.
But I also recognize that this is precisely one of the most important times for making moves that could significantly impact your finances, too.
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009
The Secrets to Successful Market Investment Entry and Exit Timing / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Many so-called experts would have you believe that it's impossible to "time" the markets. That's just not true. There's actually a secret to market timing. It's not just a matter of the economy. It's a matter of how perception and collective psychology gauge the risk of realizing a real profit - doing so with shifting economic conditions as the market's backdrop.
This works for all the markets, including stocks, bonds, commodities, precious metals and currencies.
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009
How to Earn 10% From the Safest Company in America / Companies / Investing 2009
By: DailyWealth
Tom Dyson writes: I just listened to Bill Berkley's third-quarter conference call...
Bill Berkley started an insurance business while he was a student at Harvard in 1967 with $2,500 in capital. Today, Bill's company, W.R. Berkley, is the ninth-largest property and casualty insurer in America, with a market cap of $4 billion.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Year-End Investment Profit Parachute Strategy / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“The end of an empire always comes when the currency is destroyed.”Congressman, Dr. Ron Paul, November 9, 2007
““That probably has to be a basket," Strauss-Kahn said of the eventual replacement for the dollar. "In a globalized world there is no domestic solution," he told a forum…
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Jim Rogers Bullish on Gold, Silver, Cotton, Coffee, Farmland But Not Stocks / Commodities / Investing 2009
By: LewRockwell
This week’s guru outlook brings you Jim Rogers. Rogers has become infamous in recent years for his prescient calls on the global meltdown and the commodity boom, but long before that Rogers became famous for co-founding the Quantum Fund with George Soros. Rogers and Soros helped steer the fund to a miraculous 4,200% return over the 10 year span of the fund (see here for the Soros Guru outlook) while the S&P 500 returned just 47%. They ran what is considered to be one of the first truly global macro hedge funds.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
The Stock Market is Going Lower, Buy Stocks…Now? / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Q1_Publishing
It sounds crazy, I know.
All signs point to the market heading lower. The major indices are fundamentally overvalued, the real economy has barely improved, and expectations are approaching lofty highs.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Gold and Crude Oil, Two MUST-OWN Investments! / Commodities / Investing 2009
By: Larry_Edelson
I put out my first major buy signal in gold in early 2000, when gold was trading at about $260 an ounce. I said then that gold was an easy double, moving to at least $500 over the next two years.
I told my readers to add to their gold positions in October 2004, when gold crossed above the $400 level …
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Monday, November 09, 2009
Very Long-Term Portfolio Asset Allocation Analysis Results / Portfolio / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
Nobody has the time or patience to wait 82 years to experience the long-term, but if they did (or if they wanted to bet on the future based on the long-term past), here is how a simple allocation between the S&P 500 index and the U.S. Aggregate Bond index worked out from 1926 through 2008.
Monday, November 09, 2009
Quality Individual U.S. Companies / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
We generally prefer investment funds over individual stocks to minimize investment selection risk (focusing more on asset allocation as the greater issue). However, when we do look at individual stocks, we focus on quality companies with financial strength, limited leverage, solid cash flow, and growing sales and dividends.
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Friday, November 06, 2009
Jim Rogers Vs Nouriel Roubini, Can The Commodities Boom Survive? / Commodities / Investing 2009
By: Andrew_McKillop
Battle Of The Titans - The debate is now open. Commodities, like equities have enjoyed fantastic and fantastically volatile
price growth since around March 2009, growing about 60%, like equities, to date. The global 'real economy' trails far behind, with perhaps 2% or 3% growth in the same period, and much less inside the OECD. Is a sharp correction in view, and if it comes, will it be commodities or equites that shrink fastest ? Roubini tends to think both will drop.
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
China Up / U.S. Down Investment Risk Theme Checkup / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
One big investment risk is subscribing to a popular mantra with your life’s savings, without continuously checking the data — the facts — to make sure the mantra continues to make sense.
The “China up” and “U.S. down” theme is a major current mantra. There are plenty of very bright, well informed, high profile people espousing the virtues of investing in China — people such as Marc Faber, Jim Rogers, Mohamed El-Erian, George Soros and many others.
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Investing in Preferred Shares Dividend Stocks / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Nilus_Mattive
When I talk about dividend stocks here at Money and Markets, I almost always mean common shares of a company.
But today I want to tell you about another class of stock that some income investors gravitate toward: “Preferred” shares.
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
How to Ride the Commodities Bull Market / Commodities / Investing 2009
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: Commodity prices have faltered in the last couple of weeks, and much of the “smart money” is saying the boom is over.
Don’t believe it.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Investment Portfolio Protection Strategy / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Steve_Selengut
A participant in the morning Working Capital Model (WCM) investment workshop observed: I've noticed that my account balances are returning to their (June 2007) levels. People are talking down the economy and the dollar. Is there any preemptive action I need to take?
Monday, October 26, 2009
Closing the Doors on Return Chasers: Mutual Fund Inflows Create Problems / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Paul_Petillo
Like a torrential downpour can overwhelm gutters, flood streets and generally create the kind of havoc only water can, too much money flowing into mutual funds can also leave a mark on both new investors and those of record.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Copenhagen 2009 and the Stock Markets / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
We don’t know if the furor over climate, economic and sovereignty issues coming to a head over the impending December Copenhagen climate treaty is correct, incorrect, exaggerated or spot-on.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Looking for Potential Sinkers in the S&P 1500 Stocks Index / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
This is a practical follow-up to our recent article on volume as an indicator, and on divergence between volume and price action in particular.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Why It’s Almost Time to Buy These Left for Dead Stocks / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Q1_Publishing
The last time this happened investors made 10 to 20 times their money.
Now an opportunity for similar gains is fast approaching.
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
U.S. and China Stock ETFs Volume and Money Flow Analysis / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
In our last article, we estimated the probable price range of the S&P 500 based on historical and implied volatility, and suggested that the positive area of the range was more likely than the negative area for the next few weeks, because of the moving average trend indicators and the declining volatility of the 1-month and 3-month CBOE volatility indexes.