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  • 2012 – The Year of Divergences
    Posted by on January 5th, 2012 at 5:59 pm, Comments: 0

    The year is still young and there are already some interesting divergences between assets with high historical correlation. The textbook definition of an uptrend is [...]

  • The Real January Effect
    Posted by on January 4th, 2012 at 5:03 pm, Comments: 0

    The month of January traditionally tends to give way to some unlikely winners: small caps, low priced and/or striking underperformers from the past 12 months. These types [...]

  • Long Commodities, Short Restaurants?
    Posted by on January 3rd, 2012 at 2:58 pm, Comments: 0

    The first investment theme of 2012 might be already taking shape and it looks like it is the good, old reflation trade. I have noticed [...]

  • Mixing Value and Momentum
    Posted by on December 20th, 2011 at 4:07 am, Comments: 0

    The real money in the stock market is made at the two extremes – value and momentum. The unquestionable success of those two approaches has [...]

  • Is Shanghai Composite the Most Overlooked Leading Technical Indicator?
    Posted by on December 14th, 2011 at 11:33 pm, Comments: 0

    There is a 13 hours time difference between Shanghai and NYC. The Chinese wake up when New York goes to bed. You could say that [...]

  • My Top 11 Posts of 2011. What Are Yours?
    Posted by on December 14th, 2011 at 1:48 am, Comments: 0

    Hopefully this initiative catches on and other bloggers also post a summary of what they believe was their best work in 2011. It is not [...]

  • 1% of All Liquid Stocks Doubled YTD
    Posted by on December 8th, 2011 at 7:24 pm, Comments: 0

    It is this time of the year again, when we take a look at the best and worst performers. So far 2011 has been extremely [...]

  • Ritholtz’s Collection of Trading Rules is Pure Gold
    Posted by on December 7th, 2011 at 8:06 pm, Comments: 0

    Barry Ritholtz has assembled an impressive list of trading rules and aphorisms from different sources that are well worth perusing. Trading rules are basically lessons, [...]

  • The Return of the Reflation Trade?
    Posted by on December 6th, 2011 at 7:54 pm, Comments: 0

    The S & P 500 managed to close barely positive for the day, but under the relatively calm surface there was some heavy selling pressure [...]