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Media Digest (8/23/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 23, 2011 at 6:20 am

Federal officials may consider cuts in food stamp programs that serve 46 million people. (Reuters) Housing prices probably continued to fall in July. (Reuters) Toyota (NYSE: TM) and Ford (NYSE: ...
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The Great Market Flush (DIA, SPY, BAC)

Posted: August 8, 2011 at 2:37 pm

Usually you would think that a 400 point drop or a 500 point drop in the DJIA (NYSE: DIA) implies that capitulation is upon us.  Right now, the word "hopefully" ...
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The 10% Correction Has Arrived (DIA, SPY, QQQ)

Posted: August 4, 2011 at 3:11 pm

Updated for the 4PM closing bell....  Do you call it a crash or do you call it a bear market?  Technically this is correction territory now that the 10% pullback ...
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ETF Watch: The Trouble With Semiconductors (SMH,XSD, SPY)

Posted: April 1, 2011 at 3:02 pm

We have seen a steady climb up again this week in stocks.  The market may have not been in a straight line but it did trend higher.  What we wanted to ...
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Daily Dividend: Triple-Leverage ETFs Versus Dividends and S&P (SPY, FAZ, FAS, BAC, C, WFC, JPM)

Posted: March 24, 2011 at 2:22 pm

Investors are still trying to key off of which banks can and cannot hike their dividends under Federal Reserve approval.  In short, it is the healthy versus the unhealthy.  We ...
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Second Anniversary Of The Crash: The Big Gains That Matter Most(AAPL, BAC, C, CAT, COP, DD, DIS, GE, GOOG, JPM, ORCL, WFC, DIA, SPY, QQQQ)

Posted: March 9, 2011 at 6:15 am

It was just two years ago today that the U.S. markets reached an absolute bottom.  Investors were reeling and the public was literally getting ready for a breakdown of the ...
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ETF and ETN Market Surpassed $1 Trillion (SPY, GLD, EEM, VWO, EFA, IVV, QQQQ, TIP, IWM, VTI)

Posted: December 17, 2010 at 2:25 pm

It is almost hard to say it, but the world of exchange-traded products (ETFs, ETNs, etc) hit an almost unbelievable milestone.  The exchange-traded market is now over $1 trillion in ...
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Is Apple Worth More Than Gold? (AAPL, GLD, SPY, QQQQ)

Posted: December 7, 2010 at 2:52 pm

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and gold have both been major gainers this year.  That makes it hard to ignore the notion that the gold trade may have become almost the ...
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DJIA and NASDAQ Hits 2010 Highs (DIA, SPY, QQQQ)

Posted: November 4, 2010 at 10:56 am

QE2, manufactured inflation, pumping more air into the economy... you get it.  While stocks are higher this morning, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is hitting a 2010 high.  The high ...
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D-Day ETFs for Quantitative Easing and QE2 Today (FAS, FAZ, XHB, FXF, CYB, UUP, GLD, DGP, TLT, TBT, SPY, DIA, QQQQ)

Posted: November 3, 2010 at 11:59 am

The elections are over and the Republicans took over the House but not the Senate as expected.  Today is D-Day for Quantitative Easing or QE2... Decision Day.  Now it is ...
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Elections and Quantitative Easing Look Price In (DIA, SPY, QQQQ, USO, GLD, TLT, TBT)

Posted: November 1, 2010 at 2:16 pm

It is no secret that the elections are Tuesday, November 2, and it is no secret that the FOMC under Ben Bernanke will begin the November FOMC starting November 2 ...
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Investing in Bubbles: ETFs for Quantitative Easing and QE2 (GLD, DGP, FXF, CYB, CNY, UUP, TLT, TBT, SPY, DIA, QQQQ, FAS, FAZ)

Posted: October 27, 2010 at 8:31 am

Quantitative easing, or QE2, is coming to a head.  What we will see depends upon whom you ask, and the verdict seems to depend on the direction of the wind ...
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Before GE Earnings: Upside in Conglomerates (BRK-A, GE, HON, MMM, UTX, SPY, DIA)

Posted: October 14, 2010 at 7:01 am

Conglomerates have enjoyed solid performance in 2010 and General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is set to report earnings on Friday morning.  A market concern and a sector concern so far ...
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DJIA 11,000 is here… Again (DIA, SPY)

Posted: October 8, 2010 at 11:34 am

Yesterday we gave a straddle and strangle options trading volatility strategy for options traders to play around the unemployment report and around the notion of DJIA 11,000. The market just ...
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ETF Volatility Bets for DJIA 11,000 & Unemployment (DIA, SPY, VVX)

Posted: October 7, 2010 at 12:03 pm

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was all set to see an 11,000 print this morning.  After the strongest September gains in most of our lives, the psychological level would have ...
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