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  1. Lessons From 2008's Market

    Lessons learned from a rough 2008.

    1.Keep adequate cash on hand at all times.

    • Were it not for us contributing to our FSA’s and maintaining a positive balance in our savings account, those trips to the hospital in 2008 would have hit us pretty hard.

    2.Bubbles can go longer than fundamentally possible.

    • Markets react in extremes in both directions and the very good news/very bad news tends to come out at the top/bottom. Just think of where oil
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  2. Buy and Hold is Dead?

    I'm sure everyone has heard in the media that buy and hold investing is dead. My definition of buy and hold would be defined as buying shares of GE today with plans of them financing my retirement. By that definition, I would not consider myself a buy and hold investor. Actually, by that definition I think it would be very difficult to find any buy and hold investors. I listed a few thoughts below which are not meant to be shots at anybody or any particular style of investing, but merely some of ...
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  3. IBD Follow Through Day

    Those that read my posts probably consider me to be anti-chartist when it comes to gauging the stock market for practical purposes. Well, to some extent that's true but I do however, maintain a strong belief in the IBD/Stan Weinstein method for picking stocks. (I'd like to touch on this method of stock/index/ETF investing in a future blog post, so I'll be brief here). Breakout trades or 'trading out of the box' can be very powerful and forceful if an investor can get in on the ground floor, but ...
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  4. The Coffeehouse Investor

    One of my favorite investing books in which I highly recommend is The Coffeehouse Investor by Bill Schultheis. Mr. Schultheis was a broker for Smith Barney of 13 years until he decided enough was enough and opened his own money management firm Pacific Asset Management. He claims he couldn't take the stock picks, upgrades/downgrades and sell side analysis anymore so he focused his firm on asset allocation by way of index funds.

    Warning: this book may be too boring for some, but it works. ...
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  5. True Alpha?

    I recently read an article by a Hedge Fund manager who seemed overly confident in his decision to be buying up certain types of bonds that have almost a 'guaranteed rate of return'. Yes, this trader has done exceptional in this mess, but a there's a few things I had to shake my head about. He claims to not to benchmark his returns but instead just makes money.

    Most mutual funds today, for example, benchmark to a Lipper Fund Index of comparable holdings. Benchmarking a Small Cap fund ...
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