| 7/25/2007 |
Pavlov's Market
The bell rings and the market buys. Pavlov would be proud.
Watching the market over the past few months has indeed been an interesting venture. For those of us who spend our days in f...
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| 7/25/2007 |
The Potential Problem With Short Interest
NYSE short interest continues to climb, providing the bulls with a chip to be played each time the market drops. The contrarians in the crowd cry that the market can’t fall as long as we continue ...
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| 7/23/2007 |
Optimism Ahead of Dupont's Earnings Spell Danger
The following commentary was provided to our Earnings Tip Sheet subscribers Sunday evening. Dupont announced a Q2 earnings shortfall Tuesday morning (7/24) as was subsequently downgraded later in ...
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| 7/07/2007 |
Volatility Ahead
Let’s start with my bottom line for the week. We continue to have a gut feeling that this market remains ripe for some downside action. The problem with a gut feeling is that you tend to focus on...
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| 6/18/2007 |
What Wall Of Worry?
The following is a small excerpt from this week’s Insightful Investors Market Outlook. The weekly Market Outlook provides guidance to investors to help navigate the market’s day-to-day gyrations t...
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| 5/29/2007 |
The Market Finally Catches Up With Our Outlook
Let’s start with the Bottom Line this week. I’ve lately referred to this market as an illusion with the appearance of a runaway bull market on our hands. The illusion is created by the party-like...
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| 5/24/2007 |
A Study Of Behavioral Valuation In Motion (GRMN)
From time to time, we like to take the opportunity to walk through timely examples of our Behavioral Valuation© approach to help you understand the powerful positive impact that this methodolog...
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| 5/22/2007 |
Notable Short Interest From The NYSE
May’s NYSE short interest was released earlier this week. Overall, the total NYSE short interest grew to a record level of 11.76 billion shares or three percent of total NYSE shares. This was up ...
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| 4/30/2007 |
Is the Market Too Tired?
The market limps into the third week of earnings in apparent need of a rest. With the economic calendar heating up, our views have become more cautious towards the market. This week’s Insightf...
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| 4/23/2007 |
Earnings Continue to Fuel Rally...
Summing things up before we get started, our Behavioral Valuation model continues to signal that the market remains in position to move higher. The "crowd" of investors moving back into the market is...
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| 4/09/2007 |
First Round of Earnings Pleasing Investors
The market is inching toward earnings season, with Alcoa and a few others reporting quarterly results beginning on Tuesday. This is exciting for a few reasons. First, earnings season typically offer...
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| 4/02/2007 |
The Volatility of Volatility, Is It Bullish (Yes)?
The volatility of volatility. Go ahead, say it. The thought probably sends most investors into a quant-induced coma. But those willing to peel back the skin of the market's zigs and zags may be abl...
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| 3/26/2007 |
Sentiment In The Wake Of The Fed
Well, we've been describing a bullish scenario for the past few weeks while the market was posting and retesting new lows. This happened while sentiment quickly slid from optimism in late February to...
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| 3/19/2007 |
The Most Reliable Technical Pattern In Play...
A market bottom is nothing more than the market changing hands from sellers to buyers. This is why using several sentiment gauges to determine when fear has reached an extreme can be incredibly valua...
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| 3/12/2007 |
Bulls ready to Charge On The Market
Investors began testing the waters for bargains last week, causing stocks to rebound. Blue chips led the week, returning 1.34 percent while small caps followed closely with a 1.25-percent gain. Tech...
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| 3/05/2007 |
Asian Fears Provide The Bulls With Hope?
After last week, let's get straight to the Bottom Line. The major indices endured some serious technical damage last week, as investors finally flooded out of the market. Given the large run-up sinc...
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| 2/27/2007 |
Will The Bulls Blink?
To shake things up a bit, I'll start with the bottom line this week. While the S&P 500 Index (SPX) and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) saw some selling last week, the short-term technical and...
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| 2/20/2007 |
Worrying About The Stealth Correction...
The market heads into the holiday-shortened trading week with some momentum after the major indices moved higher last week. The S&P 500 Index (SPX) and Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) made new we...
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| 2/12/2007 |
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Stocks took a hit last week, as inflation fears and rising energy prices again rose to the surface. Crude oil retook the $60 mark on geopolitical concerns that appear to be heating up again in the Mi...
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| 2/05/2007 |
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Spurred by news that the Goldilocks Economy is alive and well, the market rallied into late week. The must-win situations I discussed a few weeks ago are finding some resolution to the upside. The S...
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