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Opportune Time To Vacation
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(closed on 06/09/08)
<> Leading stocks continue to be marked down. The major indices have suffered a series of serious blows. At least the good old names like Apple (AAPL), Research in Motion (RIMM), Baidu.com (BIDU) and Google (GOOG) have not yet been knocked below their most recent consolidations. New bull markets are characterized by NEW leadership, and SCORES of growth names breaking to new highs together. Unfortunately, this is definitely not what we are currently witnessing.
The old leaders had staged a strong run over the past months. Names like MasterCard (MA) and Sohu.com (SOHU) added much neede...
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Cash Is King
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(closed on 06/09/08)
A huge part of my investing success comes from a large cash position. My Glam 5 Index is currently 70% cash. BIL is the closest thing to cash traded on the equity exchanges. The fact that it is run by Lehman gives me the creeps. I'd recommend T-Bills or GIC's over BIL any day. I wanted to have this included in my positions on Social Picks because I think cash is the most important part of any portfolio.
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Bullish on BIL ...
BIL
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(closed on 01/24/08)
just a hiding place in short term t-bills. Pay whilst we wait for the market to show us it wants to dance.
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From the Blogosphere
The best investments for 2009
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In the beginning of the last week it looked like this rally is losing steam. But we finish the whole week again higher. I guess reality check will come after summer time when most of the traders come back from holiday and we will see again standard trading volume.
Today I would like to use this post for comparison of different assets classes as an investments. The chart below shows performance since the beginning of the year.
Generally stocks were the place to be in for the first half of 2009. Emerging markets equities are leading the ranking with 60% return, followed by developed markets equ...
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Asset class performance.
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It is important to keep an eye on different class assets performance. It gives you insight where the money flows. There are some good quality websites which bring you performance for example on weekly basis. Good one is StockCharts. You can see bar chart below showing performance of different assets for past week.
Currently US stock markets offer such a wide range of investment products and derivatives that easily cover all different classes of assets. In fact it is enough to trade Exchange Traded Funds at NYSE to cover all of them. US, foreign, emerging stocks and bonds, REITs, commodities,...
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Post Super Bowl Tidbits
 Investing is in large part a psychological exercise. People often make poor decisions, succumb to emotion or otherwise make the task more difficult that it needs to be.
I tend to believe that people can reduce the difficulty they create for themselves before then even think about investing by making sure the rest of their life is in order or maybe a better word is balance.
Everyone's idea of a balanced life is of course different. I try exercise a lot, be involved with our fire department (I am the assistant chief and training coordinator), having a dog doesn't hurt and of course I enjoy most...
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Bookkeeping: Weekly Changes to Fund Positions Year 2, Week 14
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Year 2, Week 14 Major Position Changes
Fund positions of 1.0% or greater can be found each week in the right margin of the blog, under the label cloud and recent comments areas; I highlight weekly the larger position changes.
Being a long only fund, via Marketocracy rules, the only hedges to the downside I have are cash or buying short ETFs. I cannot short individual equities.
To see historic weekly fund changes click here OR the label at the bottom of this entry entitled 'fund positions'.
Cash (2 positions [SHV/BIL] + cash): 44.1% (vs 54.8% last week)
32 long bias: 38.5% (vs 33.5% last week)
7 s...
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Bookkeeping: Adding SPDR Lehman 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF (BIL)
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I am starting to fall out of compliance with Marketocracy.com rules by owning so much cash - per their rules
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There are a few simple rules to remaining compliant: <> You cannot purchase a stock so that it will increase your position to over 25% of your portfolio‘s value. If you violate this rule, your fund's effective inception date will be reset to the date that you bring the find back into compliance with all compliance rules, not just the 25% rule <> If a sub-25% position rises in value above the 25% threshold (without additional purchases), your fund will be out of complia...
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