Submitted By Trader Mark
Year 3, Week 12 Major Position Changes
To see historic weekly fund changes click here OR the label at the bottom of this entry entitled 'fund positions'.
Cash: 86.5% (v 81.0% last week)
20 long bias: 10.5% (v 13.0% last week)...
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Submitted By Trader Mark
It's starting to feel all 1999 again...once we begin to hear the most cited example of why stocks are cheap that we heard a decade ago i.e. well if Amazon.com (AMZN) is worth 65x earnings surely ABC is worth 50x, we know Ben Bernanke has bested his predecessor at equity bubble creation.
The...
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Submitted By Trader Mark
A great read on Reuters about America's largest pension fund, CALPERS. Talk about "too big to fail" - the Californian taxpayer is on the hook if CALPERS cannot pay out the avalanche of promises to California's state workers... and we know what that means. We're all on the hook for it... see...
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Submitted By Trader Mark
As we noted earlier in the day, we're seeing some selling on good news. But it's not just today - a lot of days the past 10 sessions. A lot of stocks have sold off post earnings but the general market has sort of hung in there, and even rallied at various points. Mostly as an anti dollar pla...
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Submitted By Trader Mark
Interesting time for this very compelling story in the Wall Street Journal as we were just having this discussion in the past 2 weeks in one of our comment threads - the potential friction between India and China as they "grow up". As Americans conflict is a great thing for us, as one of the last...
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 Submitted By Gary Tanashian
Today we continue with our series of blasts from the past, handily available now that NFTRH has celebrated its 1 year birthday. I do this to subtly remind readers of how important perspective is in navigating the markets. Also, to show newer subscribers how I operate. I think that one theme in...
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Submitted By Trader Mark
Chinese insurance firm CNinsure (CISG) is up about 4.5% on double the normal volume in just the first 90 minutes. Maybe there was a positive brokerage note out on this name... I don't see any particular news and earnings are not for a while. I assume something is up, but who knows what it is...
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Submitted By Trader Mark
While not necessarily part of our core strategy week in and week out, trading off technical conditions on the general market rather than buy / hold / sell / short of individual stocks have provided some excellent icing on the cake during this big run in the market. We will have completed another...
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Submitted By Gary Tanashian
One of the perks of having thrown my hat into the ring of financial commentary, and website publishing of others' commentary is that I have received 'review' samples from authors I respect; people like James Kunstler and Michael Panzner. I have not yet read Panzner's When Giants Fall, but look...
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Submitted By Trader Mark
The gap filled perfectly at 1075; since this market has become nothing more than computers using technical measures we should at least have a cursory bounce here - Ive bought index ETFs and calls for the bounce (if and when). A move below S&P 1073 will have us out of these instruments... then...
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Submitted By Trader Mark
I've had a limit buy order out for Equinix (EQIX) for many months now; the price I was seeking now looking foolish. Talk about a perfect chart...
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Submitted By Trader Mark
I sold all 3 RF semi stocks on the open, TriQuint (TQNT) being the only major holding at 1% exposure. In this name we had secured some good gains in the past but on the last batch we went from a +11.5% gain to a -10% loss overnight. Net hit to portfolio about 0.2%.We had already sold down the...
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Submitted By Gary Tanashian
I'll make one point up front; I disagree with Prechter on gold and even more particularly on his and EWI's conclusions on gold mining and its prospects in a deflation. In fact, I disagree with his ultimate conclusions about deflation and inflation...
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Submitted By Trader Mark
Wow, things went from extremely boring to exciting all the sudden.Sheesh - when I typed this in the morning, I did not mean it literallyTriQuint Semiconductor (TQNT) reports after the bell tonight and is the only one of the 3 I have a material stake in due to being a slave to price action. I did...
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Submitted By Trader Mark
First, I enjoy the threads with a lot of comments - we've had some great running discussions the past week in both the "Niall Ferguson" entry, and the "Why do Americans Seem not to Care about What Has Happend" entry. Good debates, and varying viewpoints - always a good thing. If you are on RSS...
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