Archive for October, 2010

• Friday screencast: shifting sentiment
  abnormalreturns, October 15th, 2010 at 12:36 pm, Comments: 0

  Sentiment means different things to different people.  The typical use of sentiment is as a contrarian indicator.  There are some long-standing measures of investor sentiment [...]

• ARTV with Joe Weisenthal, redux
  abnormalreturns, October 15th, 2010 at 12:01 pm, Comments: 0

  Last night we had the chance with Joe Weisenthal, Deputy Editor of Business Insider, on StockTwits TV.  You might remember that we had Joe on [...]

• Thursday links: dash to trash
  abnormalreturns, October 14th, 2010 at 1:40 pm, Comments: 0

  What happens when bond investors realize they missed the equity rally? (The Reformed Broker) Signs that the market is getting overbought.  (Fund My Mutual Fund, [...]

• Thursday screencast: foreclosure fatigue
  abnormalreturns, October 14th, 2010 at 1:34 pm, Comments: 0

  Has the stock market divorced itself from the financials?  Given the performance of the market lately it seems that the foreclosure crisis is but a [...]

• Wednesday links: notable divergences
  abnormalreturns, October 13th, 2010 at 11:49 am, Comments: 0

  Help us make Abnormal Returns even better!  Fill out our survey and be entered into a book giveway. Barry Ritholtz, “Just because Gold rallied does [...]

• Wednesday screencast: China comeback
  abnormalreturns, October 13th, 2010 at 11:46 am, Comments: 0

  China is much in the news of late.  Talk of the country’s growing economic heft is hard to escape.  However until recently its stock market [...]

• Abnormal Returns Survey
  abnormalreturns, October 12th, 2010 at 8:49 pm, Comments: 0

  Our fifth blogiversary got us thinking about ways in which we can improve Abnormal Returns.  In that spirit we are asking our users to help [...]

• Tuesday links: spousal safety
  abnormalreturns, October 12th, 2010 at 12:22 pm, Comments: 0

  Consumer discretionary stocks continue to outperform the financials.  (Bespoke) Why a 200 day moving average might work:  the market likes trends.  (Crossing Wall Street) The [...]

• Tuesday screencast: volatility vacuum
  abnormalreturns, October 12th, 2010 at 12:00 pm, Comments: 0

  The VIX or the Chicago Board Options Exchange Market Volatility Index (VIX) has become a commonly used market indicator.  Most typically it is used as [...]

• Monday links: a value decade
  abnormalreturns, October 11th, 2010 at 12:16 pm, Comments: 0

  The market has moved ahead of any likely QE2.  (Econbrowser, Milk Trader, Pragmatic Capitalism, Money Game) How the stock market performs the week of Columbus [...]