Right Place Right Time
A little anecdote from my weekend that I think can be applied to investing;The dog in the picture is a pitbull named Blue. While watching bowl games and reading Barron's on Saturday afternoon our dogs starting barking up a storm as they occasionally do...
Sunday Morning Coffee
We had a joint training with Native Air which is the local helicopter service for certain medical calls. The first picture is site prep, the second one is of the approach and third one is from driving to the station before the training and I just thoug...
The Big Picture for the Week of January 16, 2011
The US market is off to a strange start in 2011 continuing a nice run that started months ago. At the same time the economic data seems to point more toward malaise in terms of jobless claims, retail sales, certain components of the CPI and just about ...
Happy New Year
Tater and Roscoe playing in the snow. Happy New Year, regular blogging should resume tomorrow.
What To Do About Increased Correlation
There has been a report floating around from State Street that included the following interesting nugget about correlation;When returns (utilizing US and non-US equity markets) are greater than one standard deviation above the mean, the correlation is ...
Deflation, Is It Coming?
Yesterday was kind of an odd day around the ole blogosphere as Market Folly and ETFdatabase each ran almost the same post about how to invest in a deflationary environment. I did not see mention of a cross posting so I just chalk it up to coincidence.E...
The Big Picture for the Week of June 20, 2010
Interestingly the 200 DMA for the SPX seems like it has been significant for the last few weeks. After going below it in May the index had a difficult time punching through and for now it seems like it is relevant support.As I say that of course that p...
The Big Picture for the Week of March 7, 2010
Yesterday I mentioned an article on Seeking Alpha where some of the comments seemed to be taking to heart some of the same things I've been writing about in terms of how the concept of retirement is evolving, evolving quite rapidly I'd say. I was encou...
Storm A Brewin’
We are supposedly going to get dumped on all week; snow every day starting tomorrow through Friday. Someone at fire training yesterday said we're going to get three feet.The first big storm we had this year was accompanied by winds that were close to 7...
Power Is Still Out
Roger wanted me to relay that the power is still out, and going to be out for what looks like several more days. He will try to go into town tomorrow, and among other things, update a blog post. Posted by Roger's Assistant
China Sector ETFs To Arrive Tomorrow
Probably.I was advised that the GlobalX China Consumer ETF (CHIQ) and the GlobalX China Industrial ETF (CHII) will start trading on December 1.An initial look under the hood makes a good first impression in terms of these capturing what I had hoped the...
The Big Picture for the Week of September 13, 2009
A few random items this morning.IndexUniverse posted an excerpt from the July issue of ETF Report about thematic investing that includes a few comments from yours truly. Being from the ETF Report it is obviously focused on ETFs.The themes isolated in t...
