Friday, February 26th, 2010
From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology – William James, American Author
There is always a lot of talk about China, and how they will be the [...]
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Tags: «China - India - Jim Rogers »
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
I think some traders and investors have a difficult time dealing with uncertainty because they basically think they are right, and are afraid of being wrong. After all, no one likes to be wrong about something they have researched out and committed to. The problem with this posture is that you are more reluctant to [...]
Filed under: Insights, Money Management by Charles Maley
Tags: «Larry Hite - managing risk - Market Wizards - Michael Covel - Salem Abraham »
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Another major problem for a housing recovery is the fact that there are a slew of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) due to reset. According to Jim Nelson at the Daily Reckoning “The majority of these resets occurred between the summer of 2007 and the summer of 2008, which caused a massive amount of mortgage interest rate [...]
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Tags: «Daily Reckoning - Glenn Tongue - housing - housing recovery - Jim Nelson - Option ARMs - real estate - Whitney Tilson »
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
We keep hearing about the recovery in the economy and the recovery in the housing market, but for the life of me the only place I see it is on T.V. What I see is a decrease in production, continued low housing numbers, higher lumber prices and a downturn in commercial real estate.
With lending as [...]
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Tags: «housing - housing numbers - Jon Markman - lumber - Michael Schulman - Money Morning - real estate - Seeking Alpha »
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Friday, February 12th, 2010
This is an interesting short video from YouTube which covers some of Ben Bernanke’s forecast from 2005-2007, just before the crisis took us hostage.
Now, I would assume that Ben Bernanke has a research staff, and access to information, that would dwarf our capabilities, not to mention he can call anyone he wants on the phone [...]
Filed under: Money Management, Trading Methods by Charles Maley
Tags: «Ben Bernanke »
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Those that have knowledge don’t predict. Those that predict don’t have knowledge – LAO TZU
What criteria did you use to choose your latest investment? A better question would be, are you sure that you even understand the criteria?
For example, let’s say that you chose a mutual fund based on your advisors presentation of how well [...]
Filed under: Money Management, Trading Methods, Trading Psychology by Charles Maley
Tags: «Anil Gaba - Dance With Chance - fund managers - John Kenneth Galbraith - Robin Hograth - Spyros Makridakis »
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