Topic: Market Oracle's Stocks Portfolio
The new items published under this topic are as follows.
Friday, August 08, 2008
Bond Market Portfolio Building Strategies / Portfolio / US Bonds
By: Richard_Shaw
Bonds are an important part of many portfolios, particularly for those investors in mid to late states of economic life, or for endowments or pensions.
Bonds are important for capital preservation and portfolio volatility moderation. In some cases, for experienced traders, they can also be a source of capital gains, but they are normally used for conservative purposes.
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Monday, August 04, 2008
Precious Metals Portfolio Configuration Critical at this Point / Portfolio / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Captain_Hook
Just a few quick words this morning accompanied by a smattering of charts to keep you updated at where we are with the present correction in precious metals. In a nutshell, any further weakness in precious metals shares will increase the likelihood of one more Minor Degree wave lower being necessary before the larger correction is compete. As mentioned a week ago, the small speculators (see yellow bars ) have been squeezed out of the crude oil market, which is bearish. And although the Gold / Crude Oil Ratio's turn higher should prove to be a big plus for gold at some point, the initial reaction by orthodox traders will be to think deflation, and sell gold in response. Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Risk Management and Portfolio Optimization / Portfolio / Risk Analysis
By: Peter_Johansson
Stock analysis based on technical analysis or fundamental analysis is getting a lot of attention and often form the the basis for investment decisions. Many private investors combine perhaps 5-10 assets into a portfolio and let their intuition guide the allocate between the assets. How this allocation could be done in an optimal way, analytically, receives little attention in financial newspapers and marketing from financial institutes although it has a great significance for expected returns and portfolio risk.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, June 23, 2008
Quarterly Window Dressing- A Recurrent Wall Street Scam / Portfolio / Market Manipulation
By: Steve_Selengut
"The time has come the walrus said, to talk of many things": Of corrections--portfolios--- and window dressing--- of market cycles--- wizards--- and reality.Quarterly portfolio window dressing is one of many immortal Jaberwock-like creatures that roam the granite canyons of the Manhattan triangle, sending inappropriate signals to unwary investors and media spokespersons. Many of you, like the unsuspecting young oysters in the Lewis Carroll classic, are responding to the daily news nonsense with fear instead of embracing the new opportunities that are surely right there, cloaked, just beyond your short-term vision field.
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Monday, June 23, 2008
Global Stock Markets Portfolio Weighting Allocation / Portfolio / Global Stock Markets
By: Richard_Shaw
When you establish the equities allocation within your portfolio, your macro-level decision may begin with an allocation between US stocks, non-US developed market stocks, and emerging market stocks (and a for some investors, frontier market stocks).
Canada:
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008
How to Protect Your Portfolio from the US Fed Rear View Mirror Actions / Portfolio / Global Stock Markets
By: Keith_Fitz-Gerald
There's one thing you can almost always count on with the government: Coming late to the party.
The release of the U.S. Federal Reserve's minutes from the April 29 and 30 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) included several “pronouncements,” none of which you're hearing from the mainstream press and all of which we here at Money Morning told you were coming months ago.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
The Holy Grail Investment Cocktail / Portfolio / Learning to Invest
By: Steve_Selengut
So what do your Investment Manager and your neighborhood bartender have in common, other than the probability that you spend more time with the latter during market corrections? Antoine Tedesco, in his "The History of Cocktails" article, lists three things that mixologists consider important to remember and to understand when making a cocktail: Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Portfolio Allocation to Precious Metals- How to Invest $100,000 / Portfolio / Resources Investing
By: Dudley_Baker
For the last two days, I attended and participated in the Hard Assets Investment Conference in New York City which was well attended with many great speakers and companies. I always encourage investors to attend these conferences to get a real ‘hands on feel', after all, it is your money. Meet the management, ask questions and visit newsletter writers. I would have to say, the consensus was that investors should not expect gold and silver prices to rise for perhaps the next several months and that the markets are still very vulnerable to a decline in gold into the upper 700's. That said, prices are consolidating within the long-term bull market and investors need to exercise patience and continue to seek out excellent companies and deploy their investment dollars as opportunities present themselves.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Three Strategies to Protect Your Investment Portfolio From Falling Corporate Profits / Portfolio / Corporate Earnings
By: Money_and_Markets
Tony Sagami writes: If 2008 has been tough on your portfolio, there is no shortage of blame to go around: $90 oil, the subprime mortgage crisis, the collapsing dollar, and falling real estate prices.
But in my opinion, the underlying cause of U.S. stock market woes is much simpler: Rapidly disappearing corporate profits.
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Stock and Bond Market Trading Powers Modern Portfolio Asset Allocation / Portfolio / Learn to Trade
By: Steve_Selengut
For most individual investors, trading is approached in a totally speculative manner. Stock trading, in its more popular forms (Day Trading, Swing Trading, etc.) includes none of the elements that a conservative investment strategy would contain: little if any attention is given to the Quality of the equities selected; Diversification is determined by chance alone; no attempt is made to develop an increasing and dependable stream of Income. But stock trading by individual investors doesn't deserve quite as bad a "rep" as it has earned. After all, its very foundation is profit taking, probably the most important and most often neglected of the activities required for successful investment management. Unfortunately for most equity traders, loss taking is a more common occurrence. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
US Stock Markets Skating on Thin Ice! Four Steps to Protect your Portfolio / Portfolio / Global Stock Markets
By: Money_and_Markets
I'm starting to see a lot of "thin ice" signs here in my home state of Montana. That's because the temperature is dropping, but it's not yet cold enough for thick ice to form on our bodies of water.
I'm seeing a lot of warning signs popping up in the financial markets, too. Oil is flirting with $100 a barrel. The credit crunch is deepening. Corporate earnings are disappointing. The U.S. dollar is making new all-time lows.
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Monday, August 13, 2007
Wealthbuilder Monthly Stock Market Portfolio Investment Note - August / Portfolio / US Stock Markets
By: Christopher_Quigley
Overview
The bull market in the Dow is being tested. The technical breakdown currently is action was forewarned by the cluster of Hindenburg Omens which were noted in the market throughout July.
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Wealthbuilder Monthly Stock Market Portfolio Investment Note / Portfolio / Investing
By: Christopher_Quigley
Overview:
Overall markets continue to work higher, despite the existence of Hindenburg Omen clusters. The nature of this indicator shows that the internal breadth of the Market is weak. In the event that the current rally stalls there could be significant technical breakdown.
The risk in the market is high and ideally investors should wait until a pullback support level has been tested before adding significantly to new positions.
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Monday, July 16, 2007
Disaster in the US Dollar! Profit bonanza in ETFs! / Portfolio / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Money_and_Markets
Martin Weiss writes: The U.S. dollar has just been slammed for the fifth week in a row, and no one in Washington is lifting a finger to support it.
The dollar has plunged to a 26-year low against the pound … a 30-year low against the Canadian dollar … and an all-time low against the euro!
The dollar is falling against the Brazilian real, the Mexican peso and even the currencies of smaller, previously impoverished countries.
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Portfolio Insurance - The Same Old Short Comings / Portfolio / Risk Analysis
By: Michael_J_Panzner
On the face of it, it seemed like a great idea: an insurance policy for investment portfolios. No wonder it was popular with the Wall Street crowd. Unfortunately, it was not until the strategy was put to the test in the fall of 1987 that its many shortcomings came to light. By then, of course, it was too late.
“Portfolio insurance” was first developed more than two decades ago in an attempt to limit the damage caused by significant share-price declines. Previously, fund managers found it hard to adjust quickly to sudden market turbulence, mainly because of practical issues associated with rebalancing large portfolios at a time when technological solutions were limited and communications networks sluggish.
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