Long-term U.S. Treasury bonds have fallen 7% in value since November 1 and municipal bonds have fallen 6%. “Safe” investments like Treasury’s and Munis are not supposed to crash they are the mainstay of widows and orphans. So What’s happening? For most of the last century, the whole world has believed the obligations of the U.S. […]
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Many have turned to high yield bonds as their investment of choice but are they the next thing to go up in flames? — editor How a “Dull” Investment Can Be a Great Investment …until it isn’t any more. An important story for today’s bond investors. I spent my childhood discussing the stock market at
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Discover the Dynamics of Using Moving Averages The “moving average” is a technical indicator which has stood the test of time. Nearly 25 years ago, Robert Prechter described this indicator in his famous essay, “What a Trader Really Needs to be Successful.” What he said then remains true today: “…a simple 10-day moving average of the daily advance-decline
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How often have you heard analysts refer to a down day on Wall Street as “traders taking profits”? Sounds great, but the sobering fact is that most traders — in futures, commodities, or forex — lose money. Any book on trading will list for you the many reasons why most traders lose. Yet some traders do win;
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One of the best ways to get a true view of where the market really is involves looking at it denominated in something else other than dollars. One of the most interesting tools (and least discussed in the financial media) is the DJIA priced in gold — “the real money,” as Robert Prechter calls it.
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Wild swings are occurring with unprecidented regularity in various markets across the spectrum. One minute you have 98% bullish sentiment in one market and the next minute it is 92% bullish in an entirely different market, (often in the extreme opposite market), So what does this mean for the overall investing community? In the video
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Rumors are, the U.S. government “is propping up the stock market.” By far, the most frequent question we’ve been asked recently is: “What is your take on the persistent internet chatter that the Federal Reserve is holding up the stock market via QE2, POMO, etc.? How can stocks ever decline again if the Fed
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Over the weekend, I went shopping for Halloween decorations. In the store, one of the clerks was wearing a white T-shirt with a puff-paint rendering of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The line representing prices was the color of blood red, dripping and splashed across the front. When I asked him what it was, he
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By Susan C. Walker When money market funds, mutual funds and CDs yield next to nothing, the old itch to find higher yields kicks in. That may be why Bloomberg has had a field day reporting on the latest attempts to find higher yields. For example, from an October 7 story: Private-equity firms are
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EWI’s Wayne Stough adds another Flash opportunity service to the line-up: ETFs Every trader or active investor at times wishes they could pick the brain of a pro that has “pulled the trigger” on real-money trades before. EWI Director of Analysis Wayne Stough is one of these pros. For several years, several times per month,
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