Top/Bottom 10 Analyst Picks for 2012
While it is too early to make any firm judgments, it is interesting that we are a few weeks into 2012 and the Bottom 10 picks are outperforming the Top 10 picks, the index and a group of randomly...
View ArticleIs it worth buying Buffett’s picks after they’re made public?
One bit of news that gets quite a bit of publicity every few months concerns what Warren Buffett was buying or selling the previous quarter. What are his new positions? What did he reduce exposure to,...
View ArticleThe ZeroHedge Sentiment Indicator
It occurred to me that as people become more panicked, they are probably more likely to read ZeroHedge, since it is everyone’s one-stop shop for bearish and contrarian news. Knowing this, we can...
View ArticleRound 1: Stocks Despised by Analysts Dominate
Apparently dumpster diving is the new thing that all the cool kids are doing. Stocks like $SHLD and $NFLX that were hanged, drawn and quartered in the fall are suddenly back in fashion. Netflix has...
View ArticleWhy I’m not afraid of the JOBS Act: the Internet.
When I think about pump-and-dumps, I imagine a run-down, unidentifiable store front, no one at the front desk to answer the phone, and rooms with baren walls and zero furniture – in what is supposed to...
View ArticleBullish and Bearish Outlooks for 4/9/2012
Bullish Jobs Pose Challenge S&P 500 Has Overcome Nine Times Treasury 10-Year Notes Erase Drop, Leaving Yield at 2.06% Microsoft Buys Over 800 Patents In $1 Billion Deal With AOL Expecting a Steel...
View ArticleBullish and Bearish Outlooks for 4/10/2012
Bullish Exxon Mobil: A Stock For Gains In 2012 Emerging Economies Like India Showing Positive Signals: OECD US Stock Index Futures Gain As Alcoa Kicks Off Reports Honda Eyes New Models, Strong Growth...
View ArticleBullish and Bearish Outlooks for 4/11/2012
Bullish Alcoa Beats, Stock Surges After Hours (Yahoo Finance) Highest Number of Oversold Stocks Since October (Bespoke Investment Group) Consolidation vs. Crash (The Big Picture) UK Stocks Rebound From...
View ArticleBullish and Bearish Outlooks for 4/16/2012
Bullish European Stocks Resume Advance as Royal KPN Shares Climb (Bloomberg) Sell in May? 9 Trillion Reasons to Say No (Big Picture) US Futures Edge Up Ahead of Data, Earnings (Yahoo Finance) Eurozone...
View ArticleWhen it comes to S&P 500 sectors, 3rd place (passively) wins the race.
About a month ago, I decided to look at historical Sector SPDR ETF price data to see if a sector’s performance the previous month had any predictive power in determining its performance the following...
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