Archive for September, 2010

• Thursday links: cheap options
  abnormalreturns, September 30th, 2010 at 11:05 am, Comments: 0

  The presidential election cycle turns positive…NOW.  (Crossing Wall Street) The overnight and daytime sessions are completely different animals.  (MarketSci Blog also StockTwitsU) Canceled IPOs are [...]

• Thursday screencast: personal benchmarks
  abnormalreturns, September 30th, 2010 at 11:03 am, Comments: 0

  Benchmarks matter.  Investors who are serious about their performance in the markets need to be aware of their performance against relevant benchmarks.  However for many [...]

• Wednesday links: missing out
  abnormalreturns, September 29th, 2010 at 1:04 pm, Comments: 0

  On the fear of “missing out.”  (Leigh Drogen also Howard Lindzon) Don’t look now but the yield curve is flattening.  (Bespoke) Bond volatility is increasing.  [...]

• Wednesday screencast: golden nuggets
  abnormalreturns, September 29th, 2010 at 12:10 pm, Comments: 0

  Gold is on a roll.  However has the run in gold gone too far, too fast?  We recently came across a number of interesting items [...]

• Tuesday links: missed opportunities
  abnormalreturns, September 28th, 2010 at 12:01 pm, Comments: 0

  Apple’s drop this morning highlights its importance to the markets.  (Apple 2.0, Money Game earlier AR Screencast) What is going on with all these “mini-flash [...]

• Tuesday screencast: Dow drama
  abnormalreturns, September 28th, 2010 at 11:43 am, Comments: 0

  There is nothing like a big, outlandish market call to make headlines and stir things up in the blogosphere.  Recently Jeffrey Hirsch of the Stock [...]

• Monday links: skill vs. luck
  abnormalreturns, September 27th, 2010 at 11:56 am, Comments: 0

  Market breadth is strong.  (Bespoke) Putting mean reversion in the equity market into perspective.  (EconomPic Data) Skill, luck and Warren Buffett.  (Jeff Matthews also Capital [...]

• Monday screencast: Apple as outlier
  abnormalreturns, September 27th, 2010 at 11:49 am, Comments: 0

  It shouldn’t be surprising to any one who pays attention to the media to hear that Apple (AAPL) garners a disproportionate share of technology coverage.  [...]

• Sunday links: hitting new highs
  abnormalreturns, September 26th, 2010 at 5:52 am, Comments: 0

  The technology sector (including Google) has been leading the market higher.  (Bespoke, ibid) What sectors still have some room to run?  (Dragonfly Capital also Charts [...]

• Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns
  abnormalreturns, September 24th, 2010 at 8:21 pm, Comments: 0

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