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• 7 Things I Learned from Joe Fahmy’s Trading Big Winners Seminar
  Posted by Ivanhoff on February 20th, 2012 at 6:05 pm, Comments: 0

  No matter how much experience you have in the stock market, you can always learn something new that will make you better and more profitable [...]

• Looking for Real Return In a Nominal World
  Posted by Ivanhoff on February 9th, 2012 at 7:15 pm, Comments: 0

  The latest must read missive comes from Warren Buffett, who eloquently argues that during high inflationary periods, equities as an asset class might be the [...]

• Market Pulse – Uptrend Is Still Intact
  Posted by Ivanhoff on February 7th, 2012 at 5:21 pm, Comments: 0

  $SPY and $QQQ continue to make new highs on almost daily basis as capital has rotated into the energy sector and Oil & gas names [...]

• There Are 3 Stages In a Typical Bull Market
  Posted by Ivanhoff on February 2nd, 2012 at 1:06 pm, Comments: 0

  “Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized: In the first it is ridiculed; in the second it is opposed; in the third [...]

• 12 Insightful Thoughts from “The Most Important Thing” by Howard Marks
  Posted by Ivanhoff on January 31st, 2012 at 1:42 pm, Comments: 0

  1. People usually expect the future to be like the past and underestimate the potential for change. 2. When everyone believes something is risky, their [...]

• Banks Need Higher Interest Rates to Start Making Money
  Posted by Ivanhoff on January 29th, 2012 at 7:30 am, Comments: 0

  It is a public secret that Fed’s attempt to sustain interbanking lending during the last financial crisis has led to ginormous increase to gynormous increase [...]

• Five Indicators to Gauge Risk Appetite
  Posted by Ivanhoff on January 25th, 2012 at 7:38 pm, Comments: 0

  Capital constantly moves from one sector to another, from one asset class to another. While your major attention should be focused on price action of [...]

• How Cheap is Apple?
  Posted by Ivanhoff on January 23rd, 2012 at 3:34 pm, Comments: 0

  Apple, the stock and the company, is everything but not typical Most momentum stocks go through 3 main stages: 1) Earnings growth leads price growth. [...]

• Embrace the Uncertainty
  Posted by Ivanhoff on January 22nd, 2012 at 11:53 am, Comments: 0

  There are two types of forecasts – lucky and wrong. Acting like you know everything is more dangerous than accepting your limitations. Macro forecasting is [...]

• 13 Signs of a Bull Market
  Posted by Ivanhoff on January 18th, 2012 at 5:36 pm, Comments: 0

  1)      The market reacts positively to bad news. Negative headlines and terrible earnings reports are ignored. As the saying goes, reaction to news is more [...]