Archive for May, 2010

• Sunday links: volatile volatility
  abnormalreturns, May 23rd, 2010 at 6:08 am, Comments: 0

  Equity sentiment at week-end.  (Trader’s Narrative, The Technical Take) The sharpest pullback to-date for this bull market.  (Big Picture) Seven worries for Wall Street.  (Marketwatch) [...]

• Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns
  abnormalreturns, May 21st, 2010 at 4:16 pm, Comments: 0

  Thanks for checking in with us this weekend.  Here are the items readers clicked most frequently on both Abnormal Returns Now and Abnormal Returns Classic for [...]

• Lost decades and lost opportunities
  abnormalreturns, May 21st, 2010 at 3:19 pm, Comments: 0

  “I’m more worried about the world broadly than I’ve ever been in my whole career,” Seth Klarman via Reuters. When Seth Klarman speaks people listen.  [...]

• Friday links: trump cards
  abnormalreturns, May 21st, 2010 at 10:33 am, Comments: 0

  Signs of an oversold market.  (Quantifiable Edges, Trader’s Narrative, Fund My Mutual Fund, MarketBeat, Credit Writedowns) The S&P 500 sliced through its 200 day moving [...]

• Thursday links: tracking the damage
  abnormalreturns, May 20th, 2010 at 11:49 am, Comments: 0

  Signs that the market is getting oversold.  (Fund My Mutual Fund, Bespoke, Ticker Sense) The VIX is approaching pre-2008 record highs.  (VIX and More also [...]

• New leadership for a new normal
  abnormalreturns, May 19th, 2010 at 1:23 pm, Comments: 0

  The leaders coming out of a crisis are rarely the same as those who enter it. – Todd Harrison at Marketwatch.com Prior to the subprime [...]

• Wednesday links: yardsticks for pundits
  abnormalreturns, May 19th, 2010 at 11:34 am, Comments: 0

  The S&P 500 cracks its 200 day moving average.  Should we be worried?  (Crossing Wall Street) Nasdaq internals are deteriorating, but not yet oversold.  (Big [...]

• Volatility, luck and a margin of safety
  abnormalreturns, May 18th, 2010 at 2:58 pm, Comments: 0

  Part of the new normal for investors is getting used to more volatility.  – Eric Jackson At any point in time there is never a [...]

• Tuesday links: overbought and oversold
  abnormalreturns, May 18th, 2010 at 12:15 pm, Comments: 0

  A look at the parallels between the flash crash and Black Monday.  (WSJ also Big Picture, Political Calculations) Be afraid, be very afraid.  Junk bond [...]

• Monday links: shadow economies
  abnormalreturns, May 17th, 2010 at 12:00 pm, Comments: 0

  Copper has fallen below its 200 day moving average.  (MarketBeat, ibid) Why the United States Oil Fund (USO) has been getting crushed of late.  (IndexUniverse) [...]