Over the past weekend, I was reading about the severe winter storm that was forecasted to blanket the East Coast. It seems that part of that storm took direct aim at Wall Street and sent the bulls heading for cover as the month of March started out on another sour note. The major indexes got clobbered again and are now …
A Useless Discussion Continues
Apparently, even last year’s market meltdown did not detract some from continuing the most useless discussion of the past few years. The topic is as to whether ETFs are better than mutual funds. MarketWatch reports as follows in “Actively managed funds lose share to index rivals:” Mutual fund investors in 2008 yanked more money out of actively managed stock-funds than …
Sunday Musings: Hedge Q & As
Yesterday’s post about my new e-book “The SimpleHedge Strategy” prompted a lot of inquires. Reader Dick had this to say: Thanks for sharing the Hedging e-Booklet. I think the approach is brilliant, and just whatI needed. I have a question though: You talk of a short-term trend line, but I don’t see itbeing replicated, either at your blog or the …
Expanding The Trend Tracker
For about the past year, I have been working on finding a way to improve my trend tracking methodology by researching ways to enter the markets earlier than as per the usual trading rules. At the same time, however, I wanted to be in control of downside risk. As a result of my research, I am pleased to announce the …
No Load Fund/ETF Tracker updated through 2/26/2009
My latest No Load Fund/ETF Tracker has been posted at:http://www.successful-investment.com/newsletter-archive.phpThe bears continued winning the tug of war against the bulls by a wide margin and the S&P; 500 sank below its previous November low. Our Trend Tracking Index (TTI) for domestic funds/ETFs remains below its trend line (red) by -12.28% thereby confirming the current bear market trend. The international index …
Trend Tracking Alert
Be sure to tune into tomorrow’s blog post, when I will be introducing a major addition to my Trend Tracking methodology along with a free e-booklet, which I have just completed.
