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Short guide for absolute beginner
If you are an absolute beginner to the investment world: 1. Understand the idea of modern portfolio management 2. Read this description of assets and asset types. 3. Understand indicators –Economic indicators –Candlestick patterns –Bollinger bands 4. Open investing.com and look at indicators 5. Start reading seekingalpha.com”>blog 6. See the simplest tactics in our book. …
Weekly outlook
The volatility is high. We are constantly bombarded by contradicting news. Both bulls and bears are extremely active. This week outlook is mildly positive. Assets to watch: VNQ and TLT are nearing inflection points. Oil probably DCBed ahead of inflection.
Picking oil stocks
This article shows several interesting points regarding picking oil stocks. MLPs may be interesting like YMLP. Alternatively high risk PBR or low risk XOM can be considered. Even RUSL comes to mind as a possible revenue generator. There will be several good deals, but oil production needs to fall first.
No-brainer investment strategies
For the last several years simple investment in S&P was a winning strategy. While we advocate smart investing strategies with portfolio rebalancing, there are assets that will usually work for you. Each of these strategies removes you from making active decisions, and places the responsibility on fund managers: 1. Buy BRK.B or IEP or APO …
Leveraged ETFs
We discuss using leveraged ETFs for timing and momentum rebalancing. To this end we choose ETFs over low-volatility indices. In high volatility environment leveraged ETFs can be risky as explained here. Defensive sectors and large indices as well as some commodities are suitable for this approach.
Defensive sectors lowering guidance
Quite counter-intuitively, this quarter the largest “space to improve” in terms of
American market is strong?
Many economists are signalling deflationary pressure [possible growth reduction] in US. Lower guidance is coming from energy sectors. Bullish FED does not help either… This in-depth analysis of situation in US explains why there is no deflation in US and earnings are reasonable. The main arguments are: 1. Drop in commodities prices allow Americans to …
Annually rebalance stocks/bonds
Usually we prefer more active hands-on approach, but sometimes all we can do is balance stocks/bonds. This strategy still is better then choosing only one of them.
Commodities supercycle
This great article shows the current commodities supercycle. Commodities are generally moving in a very wide “channel” supported by inflation with roughly 25 years cycle. The current cycle should be modified by 2008 crisis results for better understanding. It appears that the overall commodities prices are falling right now, as explained by the supercycle theory. …