Reader comments are an important component of my daily blog posts. They add valuable information to the topic discussed and many times lead to more posts on related issues. Some readers prefer to comment anonymously, which I don’t have a problem with unless this privilege is abused. This happened a few days ago when one reader addressed an issue in …
No Load Fund/ETF Tracker updated through 10/8/2009
My latest No Load Fund/ETF Tracker has been posted at:http://www.successful-investment.com/newsletter-archive.phpThe major indexes recouped two weeks of losses as the Bull run continued. Our Trend Tracking Index (TTI) for domestic funds/ETFs has now crossed its trend line (red) to the upside by +8.81% keeping the current buy signal intact. The effective date was June 3, 2009. The international index has now …
Exiting The Market: Sell Stop Vs. Trend Line Break
Reader Tom had the following question in regards to exiting the market: I had some time to kill so I did a spread sheet on my brokerage results and found something interesting that raised a question. Assuming the TTI tells us to hold, but we have a trailing 7 percent Stop Loss set…..would we be better off holding until the …
Making Up Losses
The markets rallied for 2 straight days and made up the losses of the entire last week, which puts us now back within striking distance of the psychological Dow 10,000 barrier. Gold hit a record yesterday as the dollar weakened. The widely held GLD gained 2.46% on the day. As I posted about last week, we are participating in the …
Reader Q + A: Exit Strategy
Reader Bill had this question regarding our sell strategy: I have my IRA diversified among seven T. Rowe Price funds. Do I apply an exit strategy to each separate fund—or use one fund (i.e: Equity Income)? Where do you suggest I put the money from the exit strategy in this environment?Yes, you will have to track the trailing sell stop …
Sell Stops And Bond Funds
Sell stops were the main topic of the past couple of weeks as readers provided valuable feedback and asked for clarification. Here are a couple more comments: I learned from you that the trailing stop loss is usually 7% I do hold TIP (ETF). Does the same 7% hold for bond funds as well or should it be a lesser …