Bear Market

Do you own the right bond fund? Because, if you don’t, you could be a step away from having 25% of your bond money wiped out. Recently, more individual investors have been piling into bond funds to escape the volatility of stocks.  On the surface, bond investing looks easy — pick a fund with a [...]

Continue Reading Get Rid Of Your Bond Funds NOW

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Gold marked its eleventh consecutive year of gains as 2011 came to a close.  The yellow metal was up roughly 11% for the year, but well off its highs.  In fact, some might argue that gold dipped into bear market territory when it traded down below $1530 per ounce on December 29th. During the latter [...]

Continue Reading 2 Ways to Play Gold Market in 2012

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Google Put Update:  I said if Google hits $660.00 then the put option, discussed in this article, should be exited. It seems we are looking at a breakout in Google – but the breakout is on very light volume.  My feeling is the stock is overbought, and will likely come back down to lower prices [...]

Continue Reading Signaling a Likely New Bull Market..!

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During the onset of the Russian Crisis of 1998, while a floor trader on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, I had an experience that forever impacted my views on risk and disciplined trading. I bring this up because, as I was discussing a straddle position during a recent Price Shock Trader webinar, the episode came to [...]

Continue Reading Know Your Risk, or It Could Cost You BIG! with ED Pawelec.

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The five largest one day percentage up moves in the history of the Dow Jones Industrial average all occurred during a bear market. March 15, 1933: 15.3 percent Oct. 6. 1931: 14.9 percent Oct. 30, 1929: 12.3 percent Sept. 21, 1932: 11.4 percent Oct. 13, 2008, 11.1 percent If we look at the seven biggest [...]

Continue Reading I’m Still Bearish Are YOU?

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