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Entries for August, 2011

The Only Stock Indicator That Matters!

The whole stock market changed last Thursday when the S&P 500 plunged through the 20 month moving average in the closing hour of trading. I had used the summer lows as stops on my positions so I basically got stopped out of almost everything that day. It made me sick to think that I might […]

Contrarian Stock Purchases Are Tough!

I have been holding about 1/3 cash in my SEP IRA waiting for the S&P 500 to sink back to the 20 month simple moving average. This is something it does most summers and usually represents the perfect buying opportunity. Today however is a scary day to be buying stocks because it feels like the […]

Trend Following With Leveraged ETFs

After a nice short term run in the leveraged ETFs that were mentioned in my last article it seems the stock market ran into a brick wall. I dumped the Leveraged Financial ETF as well as the Leveraged Biotech ETF because as I said in the last article those are the two most dangerous trades. […]