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Monthly Look Backs And The S&P 500 Index

http://dshort.com/articles/2010/SP500-monthly-moving-average-history.html

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200 day moving average

Nice article on the 200 day moving average. http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/109101/good-enough

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The best financial jokes of 2008

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/tradingdesk/archive/2008/12/24/jokes.aspx “Get my broker, Miss Jones.” “Yes sir. Stock, or Pawn?” The market may be bad, but I slept like a baby last night. I woke up every hour and cried. The problem with investment bank balance sheets is that on the left side nothing is right and on the right side nothing is left. [...]

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Arezi Ratio for Oct. 31

I normally do not publish the Arezi Ratio. It just that it recommends that one actually use margin!  To me this should suggest a runaway bull with cash flowing out of savings and treasuries. Personally I don’t buy it. I think we have an out of sample situation with the Government mucking with market forces. [...]

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Quantitative Tactical Asset Allocation

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=962461 EFA GSG IEF IVV IYR %Cash 10.17.08 no no no no no 100 10.10.08 no no no no no 100 10.03.08 no no yes no no 80 09.26.08 no no yes no no 80 09.19.08 no no yes no yes 60 Things of note: The 5 assets are: international equities (EFA), commodities (GSG), US [...]

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PWI

Something to consider if you have PWI in your portfolio -=-=- From: http://www.primewestenergy.com/ “On January 16, 2008 PrimeWest Energy and the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company known as TAQA successfully completed their plan of arrangement. The new entity going forward will known as “TAQA North”. As a result of the acquisition all traded securities of [...]

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Understanding the Market

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Number of stocks to own -/- blend to start reasearch with.

I work as Systems Administrator for my day job. I enjoy working the stock market. I do not like to give financial advice. I prefer to be a “data provider.” What this means is that you need to do your own homework. If you want to share ideas on this site, great! This morning I [...]

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