Archive for December, 2009

• Sunday links: snowmaggedon edition
  abnormalreturns, December 20th, 2009 at 8:28 am, Comments: 0

  The January effect has started early this year.  (StockCharts Blog) 200 day moving averages are poised to accelerate higher.  (VIX and More) Bullish equity sentiment [...]

• Friday links: dollar drama
  abnormalreturns, December 18th, 2009 at 12:58 pm, Comments: 0

  A turn in the dollar has sparked some bullishness, so much so that the U.S. Dollar Index Bullish Fund (UUP) has run out of shares.  [...]

• Thursday links: surging sentiment
  abnormalreturns, December 17th, 2009 at 11:53 am, Comments: 0

  It’s the most wonderful time of the year (for the stock market).  (Crossing Wall Street) Newsletter writers have gotten pretty bullish.  (Bespoke) “The big money [...]

• A stealth decade-long bull market
  abnormalreturns, December 17th, 2009 at 9:06 am, Comments: 0

  As noted market philosopher Jim Cramer is apt to say, “there is always a bull market somewhere.”  Apparently this past decade that bull market was [...]

• Wednesday links: wealth and risk appetites
  abnormalreturns, December 16th, 2009 at 10:23 am, Comments: 0

  Ben Bernanke is Time Magazine’s “2009 Person of the Year” despite his broad unpopularity.  (Time also Clusterstock) Rydex market timers are really bullish.  (The Technical [...]

• Fast vs. slow knowledge
  abnormalreturns, December 15th, 2009 at 3:03 pm, Comments: 0

  What is the difference between fast knowledge and slow knowledge?  And how is that relevant to trading and investing? We came across this distinction in [...]

• Tuesday links: distilled versions
  abnormalreturns, December 15th, 2009 at 12:40 pm, Comments: 0

  Sentiment tells us the easy money has been made in this rally.  (Big Picture) Utility stocks have finally joined the rally.  (Barron’s) ExxonMobil (XOM) is [...]

• Monday links: naked access
  abnormalreturns, December 14th, 2009 at 1:15 pm, Comments: 0

  “Over the last 25 years December options expiration week has been the most consistently positive week of the year for the SPX.”  (Quantifiable Edges) Some [...]

• Holiday book giveaway
  abnormalreturns, December 14th, 2009 at 9:17 am, Comments: 0

  When we first started blogging one of our goals was to write reviews of investment and economic books.  Due largely to time considerations this has [...]

• Sunday links: dividends and interest
  abnormalreturns, December 13th, 2009 at 7:44 am, Comments: 0

  Jason Zweig, “In any case, don’t kid yourself into thinking stock dividends and bond interest are interchangeable. They aren’t.”  (WSJ) Jeremy Grantham, “It’s almost a [...]