MarketWatch featured “Buy and hold gets old,” as the aimless meandering of the markets is maddening for many investors along with the ever present memories of the 2008 crash: Yet while both Stadion and Kenjol’s strategies sidestepped the worst of 2008, they also missed much of the recovery the following year.Kenjol’s Sector Rotation was up 24.3% in 2009 compared to …
Sunday Musings: Why Is This Business Different?
Most successful businesses, that have been around for awhile, are quite adept of analyzing their operations with the goal of avoiding money losing mistakes. Think of the company you work for or that you are the owner of. Has it happened in the past that a grave error has cost some serious money or, in the worst case, even a …
Trend Line Signals
Reader Ralph had the following question regarding a topic, which I have discussed some time ago, but which is worth repeating: I am becoming familiar with your website, blog, etc. After looking closer, I am aware that your actual buying/selling is based on such things as “sell stops”, buying back into a market after certain criteria are met, etc. However, …
No Load Fund/ETF Tracker updated through 7/15/2010
My latest No Load Fund/ETF Tracker has been posted at: http://www.successful-investment.com/newsletter-archive.php A very negative consumer sentiment index today pulled the major indexes off their lofty levels. Our Trend Tracking Index (TTI) for domestic funds/ETFs held above its trend line (red) by +1.28% (last week +1.34%) and remains in bullish mode. The international index has now broken below its long-term trend …
Hear No Evil, See No Evil
It wasn’t a straight road, but the Dow managed to stagger to its 7th higher close in a row yesterday, although only by the slightest of margins. Wall Street seemed to be enamored by and only focused on Intel’s bullishness by totally disregarding other economic news, which indicated anything but a continued recovery in the second half of the year. …
Bouncing Against The 1,100 level
Alcoa started the earnings season on Monday and Wall Street seemed to like the better-than-expected report as the rally continued on Tuesday. After yesterday’s close, Intel’s report card not only exceeded expectations, but 3rd quarter guidance was positive and could provide more upside momentum today. The S&P; 500 raced towards the 1,100 level, but sold off in the end before …