Archive for 'Strategies'
Bear Market Rally
The Dow Jones is up over 1,300 points over the last 5 trading days. This marks the best 5 day performance in 75 years. I have to give credit to President Elect Obama for choosing Paul Volker to chair on the president’s “Economic Recovery Advisory Board.” Volcker was Chairman of the Federal Reserve [...]
Posted: November 28th, 2008 under Strategies.
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Learning from the Dot-com crash
Since the dot-com bubble, the stock market has had some significant double digit gains, which positively affected our stock portfolios and 401K plans, but why would anyone want to give up those gains and ride out a bad market year, or years? Way too many people lost all their gains from 1995-2001 when the [...]
Posted: March 9th, 2008 under Strategies.
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The Gold Strategy
At the end of 2007, many people, including myself had a strong feeling that the Stock market headed south in 08. So what could one do in order to protect his or her investments? Here is one strategy that anyone could have deployed during that time.
Dec, 07: Bought gold ETF [...]
Posted: March 6th, 2008 under Strategies.
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