Archive for May, 2009

• Is the new, old trend: Buy commodities, sell retail?
  Posted by Ivanhoff on May 30th, 2009 at 7:46 am, Comments: 0

  139 stocks went up 50% or more during the month of May. To create this list, I used a liquidity filter of average number of [...]

• Price matters
  Posted by Ivanhoff on May 29th, 2009 at 9:48 pm, Comments: 0

  People, suffering from cold, were asked to buy medicine with different price range. When surveyed, those who tried the more expensive medicine, reported that they [...]

• S&P 500 vs U$D
  Posted by Ivanhoff on May 22nd, 2009 at 7:52 pm, Comments: 0

  If you take into account the recent weakness in the Dollar, S&P 500 is actually flat for the last 6 months. I have mentioned before [...]

• Dr Brett's 3 questions for the end of the trading day
  Posted by Ivanhoff on May 15th, 2009 at 11:54 am, Comments: 0

  A simple journal to respond to these questions at the end of the day could meaningfully accelerate a trader’s learning curve: 1. Did I trade [...]

• Chris Perruna's market timing model
  Posted by Ivanhoff on May 13th, 2009 at 8:22 pm, Comments: 0

  Chris Perruna posted on his blog his simple approach to measure market strength. He measures the difference between 52 week new highs and 52 week [...]

• Trader X take on some important trading matters
  Posted by Ivanhoff on May 5th, 2009 at 11:45 pm, Comments: 0

  I recently found Trader X outstanding blog, where trading is explained in very simple terms. For me simple has always meant ingenious, so I decided [...]

• S&P 500: AVERAGE MONTHLY TOTAL RETURN
  Posted by Ivanhoff on May 2nd, 2009 at 7:24 pm, Comments: 0

   Source: Plexus Asset Management (based on data from Prof Robert Shiller and I-Net Bridge) Data is from Jan 1950 to Apr 2009 Prieur du Plessis [...]

• Great performers are made, not born?
  Posted by Ivanhoff on May 2nd, 2009 at 6:56 pm, Comments: 0

  David Brook from NYT has an excellent article on how ingenuity is probably achieved in any field. The key factor separating geniuses from the merely [...]

• The effect of earnings' surprises
  Posted by Ivanhoff on May 1st, 2009 at 11:04 am, Comments: 0

  I have been writting and reading extensivelly on the subject of reaction to earnings’ surprises and its effect on stocks’ prices in short-term and long-term [...]