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 …
Waiting For Stress
So far, nothing has been able to kill this current market rebound and yesterday was no exception. Despite some leakage about tomorrow’s results of the stress tests, the major indexes moved higher with the Dow closing above the 8,500 level. By the time you read this on Thursday, you will most likely know if the stress test results will be …
Buy And Monitor?
There’s a new name for a glorified version of buying and holding I had not heard before as featured in “Stop, look and listen:” Whenever investors roiled by the market’s downturn declare that as an investment strategy “buy-and-hold is dead,” Leonard “Pat” Goodall, editor of the No-Load Portfolios newsletter, thinks about how mistaken they are. But Goodall, whose publication is …