When I was a kid my Dad used to complain about people taking a “five fingered discount” referring to those who lifted things that didn’t belong to them. In this article we have Jeffrey Kennedy the Chief Commodity Analyst at Elliott Wave International talking about how the stock market can take a five fingered discount from your portfolio.
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Another Look at Emerging Markets By the editors of Without Borders, Casey Research After passing much of 2008 standing thankfully on the sidelines, we believe that with current valuations, opportunities have returned for putting capital back into long-term positions in emerging markets. In fact, we believe that emerging markets will recover faster and outperform developed
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By Chris Ciovacco Ciovacco Capital Management “Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.” –Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) How Do You Decide how Much Is a Stock Really Worth? The basic fundamental value in buying a stock or a business is the cash flow it can produce over time. Investors discount expected cash flows
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By Steve Selengut Looking for good news in today’s markets is like searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack. Needless to say, practically all investment grade equities and nearly all closed end funds that specialize in providing regular recurring monthly income have been reduced in market value by this prolonged correction. The quake has
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By Chris Ciovacco To Make Money Find Trending Investments Based on the charts of most stock markets above, the trends will have to change before long-term investors can again make money. If a trend has to be in your favor to make money, then you should overweight investments which are doing just that. The inverse
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The old Wall Street saying “The trend is your Friend” is as true as ever but what does that really mean to your investing? In this article, Chris Ciovacco shows us how to manage risk by following the trend and using volatility to our advantage rather than letting it wipe out all of our gains.
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With as many as 2 million sub-prime mortgages, scheduled to reset to much higher levels by the end of 2008 many market watchers began to get worried in the last few months, which drove the stock market down. A sub-prime mortgage is a loan offered to borrowers with spotty credit histories and with interest rates
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With the recent 5% tumble in one month in both the NYSE and the NASDAQ, I’ve begun thinking about protecting my portfolio from the downside. In an effort to keep you fully invested at all times investment advisors are quick to quote statistics like, “By missing just the best 10 days in the market between
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One of the biggest problems with investing in the stock market is that there are no guarantees. You can do your homework pick a likely stock and watch as it falls to oblivion. Has this ever happened to you? You subscribe to a newsletter because the magnificent advertisement makes it sound like you can’t possibly
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