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AAII sentiment survey: So what?!
High bullish readings did not have any predictive value in the last two years.
Manager Commentary Michael Arold on 19 Jan 2012
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Dogs of the Dow crush it in 2011... here's the 2012 list
This strategy has outperformed the rest of the Dow by about 15% in 2011.
Smarter Investing Bespoke Investment Group on 29 Dec 2011
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What is the yield curve, and where's the yield now?
Here's what the Fed is doing to try to spur growth in the economy - and why it's hard to find significant yield from your investments these days.
Smarter Investing Mick Weinstein on 15 Sep 2011
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How social media can aid investing - Zack Miller [audio]
Covestor's own Zack Miller, author of the newly published TradeStream Your Way to Profits: Building a Killer Portfolio in the Age of Social Media, was recently a guest on News@7. Zack discusses the themes in his book, such as the role of social media in investing, with specific examples of how professionals and amateurs alike are using ... read more
Smarter Investing Frank on 27 Jul 2011
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Financial advisors and action bias
Covestor model managers' monthly reports often describe little or no trading activity during the past period. This is to be expected for many models, especially those with long-term focus and value investing strategies. Portfolio activity is not always desirable, of course. With these models in particular we try to encourage managers to do a thorough ... read more
Smarter Investing Mick Weinstein on 24 Jul 2011
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Traders: On eating what we kill
By Jared Woodard, Condor Options (neither is affiliated with Covestor) The video embedded below is making the rounds these days, to nearly universal reactions of vicarious embarrassment among people with souls. This is one of those cultural signifiers that splits its audience neatly in two: if you don’t find anything objectionable or cringe-inducing about this, ... read more
Smarter Investing Mick Weinstein on 12 Jul 2011
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Dang! CEOs should not set price targets for their stocks
When a CEO starts giving price targets for his company's stock and publicly lashes out at investment bankers who helped float his IPO, it's... well... not a good sign. iChinaStock reports that Guoqing Li, the CEO of Beijing based Dangdang (NYSE: DANG), told a Chinese reporter: I think Dangdang is now extremely undervalued. Even the ... read more
Best of the Web Mick Weinstein on 12 Jul 2011
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Where's the money flowing into (and out of) ETFs?
SymmetricInfo.org creates tools that help investors understand and visualize complex economic and financial concepts. They recently released a very helpful tool for visualizing ETF capital flows, which shows where money is flowing in and out of in the exchange traded fund (ETF) universe. Users can drill down to any level they want (sector, region) and ... read more
Smarter Investing Frank on 29 Jun 2011
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How's the economy doing? This chart tells all.
Russell Investments provides on its site an interactive graphic for advisors "to help you talk to your clients" about the state of the economy. Russell recently updated this cheat sheet to reflect the latest market and economic indicators. Click through for the full version: Source: Economic Indicators Dashboard, Russell.com, retrieved on 6/27/11 http://www.russell.com/Helping-Advisors/Markets/EconomicIndicatorsDashboard.asp?DCMP=EMC-dashupdt20110622
Best of the Web Mick Weinstein on 27 Jun 2011
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Using Twitter to trade stocks [VIDEO]
A good segment from Reuters today on how Twitter is being used by some to inform stock trading and investing. It features StockTwits and TweetTrader.net: Source: "Turning to Twitter for Trading Edge" Reuters.com 6/16/11 http://reut.rs/ioIkW5
Smarter Investing Mick Weinstein on 16 Jun 2011
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