Archive for September, 2009

• Modular investment management
  abnormalreturns, September 22nd, 2009 at 8:16 am, Comments: 0

  Not too long ago we discussed some developments in the world of investment management that are serving to make new investment strategies available to individual [...]

• Monday links: bearish conversion
  abnormalreturns, September 21st, 2009 at 12:07 pm, Comments: 0

  Jim Grant is bullish.  Should we be worried?  (Big Picture, Nancy Miller, Money & Co., Fund My Mutual Fund, Zero Hedge) Are stocks now overvalued?  [...]

• Sunday links: lessons from Dow 36,000
  abnormalreturns, September 20th, 2009 at 9:43 am, Comments: 0

  What lessons can be gleaned from the mistake that was Dow 36,000?  (Big Picture, ROI) “The very best investors don’t even try to forecast the [...]

• Rogue waves and the stock market, redux
  abnormalreturns, September 18th, 2009 at 1:32 pm, Comments: 0

  At one time oceanographers, contrary to ample anecdotal evidence, did not believe that rogue waves existed.  Rogue waves are now known to be “..relatively large [...]

• Friday links: valuing liquidity
  abnormalreturns, September 18th, 2009 at 11:18 am, Comments: 0

  The trading is easy right now, but the farther we get from obvious support levels, the greater the risk of a sharp correction.  (AlphaTrends) How [...]

• Perfectionism, happiness and trading
  abnormalreturns, September 17th, 2009 at 12:44 pm, Comments: 0

  The perfect is the enemy of the good. – Voltaire There is no room for perfectionism in trading.  Trading is a decidedly messy enterprise filled [...]

• Thursday links: pub power
  abnormalreturns, September 17th, 2009 at 11:29 am, Comments: 0

  This rally has been built on the back of individual investor skepticism.  Some 90% of flows into mutual funds this year has avoided equities.  (Fund [...]

• A rare event indeed
  abnormalreturns, September 17th, 2009 at 7:42 am, Comments: 0

  A rare event indeed.  The guys at Bespoke Investment Group note that the S&P 500 is 20% above its 200 day moving average for the [...]

• Wednesday links: free lunches
  abnormalreturns, September 16th, 2009 at 11:31 am, Comments: 0

  What a record number of stocks are stretched far above their 200 day moving averages might mean for the rally.  (Quantifiable Edges also Kirk Report) [...]

• Tuesday links: breathless breadth
  abnormalreturns, September 15th, 2009 at 11:55 am, Comments: 0

  How much weight should we put on some recent breadth divergences?  (Trader’s Narrative also Tech Ticker) Doug Kass is bearish.  Is this fodder for another [...]