Monday’s moderate sell off spilled over into Tuesday, until late buying set in—but only the Dow ended up recouping all intraday losses by closing in positive territory. It was a day that could have ended up really ugly as a menu of negative news ranging from weakness in housing, the selling of financial and technology stocks along with higher oil …
Finding Your Comfort Level
In case you missed, it Reader BD commented on yesterday’s post about “Investment Insurance” as follows: Today was a good example as to what happens when one buys and sells only on the crossing above or below a moving average line. My own understanding is that one should see that moving average line turn up or down before buying or …
Investment Insurance
In my last two posts, I talked about investment choices and the importance of using a sell stop discipline. When you work with a trailing sell stop, you have to accept the fact that an occasional whip-saw signal will become part of your investment life whether you like it or not. Taxxcpa had this comment: A whipsaw possibility is like …
Sunday Musings: Bear Turns To Bull?
[Click chart to enlarge]Hat tip to Doug Short for providing this updated chart (through 5/8/09) showing the “four bad bears.” I added the red arrow to indicate where we are currently at to show how this current market rebound compares historically. The S&P; 500 closed the week at a new rally high 37.4% above the March 9th low. Are we …
Investment Choices
With the international Trend Tracking Index (TTI) having crossed above its long-term trend line by +2.94%, after recalculation yesterday, a Buy signal has been generated effective Monday, May 11, 2009. The domestic TTI has also moved to within striking distance (-0.49%) of crossing its own long-term trend line to the upside, which may happen next week. If the domestic Buy …
No Load Fund/ETF Tracker updated through 5/7/2009
My latest No Load Fund/ETF Tracker has been posted at:http://www.successful-investment.com/newsletter-archive.phpUp, up and away with no worries was the motto this week as the major indexes gained strongly. Our Trend Tracking Index (TTI) for domestic funds/ETFs remains below its trend line (red) by -0.49% thereby confirming the current bear market trend. The international index has broken above its long-term trend line …