This reminds me of the "black hoe" controversy a few years ago. A radio station was giving away "black hoes" (gardening tools!) and the Jesse...
What is happening to this country? http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/bizarre/2270350 Women don't want to wait in long lines for the...
I never said I entered at a specific point above BB's. You're taking what I say out of context. Yes, just because it goes outside the bollinger...
K&C are good for a few laughs, nothing more. What's happened to Cramer's Action Alerts plus portfolio on real money.com ? Has it ever been in...
1) Stock price distribution can't be normal b/c it's truncated at zero. 2) If you looked at stock returns instead, a lognormal will fit better -...
Re: Gold at $887 and the crash of '87. Something that I've learned through the years that has been very profitable for me is to detach...
In regards to surveys such as University of Michigan, there is some correlation with the market to these surveys, but not alot. At economagic.com...
What do I do with all of this? Find the "natural limits" of the markets (i.e. the extremes) and then go the other way. It works in any market...
A post mentioned pyschology as a possible holy grail in terms of market timing and trading. I think it is the holy grail! The beauty about...
Bollinger Bands are simply one tool of measuring standard deviation. You could use a % away from the 10 day moving average for example and...
I don't believe stock movement is as "random" as the EMH and random walk theorists would have you believe. Stocks, and any market for that matter...
Debt growth is completely unsustainable. If it wasn't for the explosion of credit card debt, home equity debt, you name it, the economy would be...
W saving Toaster jobs is like trying to save horse and buggy manufacturing after the model T rolled off the assembly line. It's a bygone era....
Has protectionism ever helped an economy in the long run? Of course not. I hope we aren't going back to the 1930's. The american public as a whole...
Today, there is a news item about China, once again, talking about the use of force if Taiwan gets too "independent". To me, I think the...
Look at what W has done in office so far in 3 years: A very muddled economy. A few million jobs lost. A trillion dollars in annual fiscal and...
Today, 17 more GI's are dead in Iraq. I read the number is now over 400 since the start of the war in March. 400 dead for what? No WMD's! No...
A strong dollar during the 90's was not the deciding factor in the stock markets gains. Falling bond rates, a high tech boom and fairly good...
Thestudent, Good analysis. I would argue though that the CB's would not start to sell all their gold into a rising market. If you assume the...
If I had $10 million to work with: Save $250,000 in cash, and gold in a safe deposit box offshore (Isle of Man, Belize) Any lost interest on it...
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