Recent content by Claudius

You can download daily data since Jan 23, 2009 from the MSCI website Here: http://www.msci.com/products/indices/country_and_regional/em/performance.html You can also get monthly data prior to that.

Put Master, I suggest you read a website/blog called Citron Research by a guy called Andrew Left. He has written two or three negative posts on NUS in the last six months. You'll need to make up your own mind, but Andrew Left (the guy behind Citron) has a pretty good strike rate as a...

I suggest that in future you screen Chinese ADR's out of your watch list. This space seems to get more than its fair share of stock fraud and price manipulation. It's an added layer of risk that you would be better off without.

Hi Put_Master, Thanks for sharing your trade ideas with us, and congratulations on your success. I've gone through most of this thread and while I may have missed it, I haven't seen asked or answered the leverage question. You do seem to have hinted that it's north of 100% On average...

In an era where all the candidates look and sound like Hollywood movie stars, it takes an actual Hollywood movie star to look and sound like an ordinary American. And for that reason, those punches he threw, will connect. The "performance" was pure genius.

If you want to become enormously wealthy by 'misappropriating' other people's money with minimal risk of ever going to jail, there are three good options: 1. Go into politics. 2. Go into investment banking. 3. Set up a US listing for a Chinese company.

All you need is this simple rule of thumb: If a Chinese company reports financials that are "too good to be true", then you can be 100% certain that those financials are in fact too good to be true.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/bank-america-explains-all-you-need-know-about-market-down-morning-rally-afternoon 0 'edge did this post on a similar phenomenon a while back. From memory, I think they also had a similar post with regard to GLD.

The Fed is buying corporate debt. Somebody is selling them the debt and getting cash in return. What they do with the cash is up to them. It would appear that they are using it to buy equities and commodities. Look at this chart. It shows the Baltic Exchange Dry Index against a Commodity...

Good question. Prices and wages tend to move together, while the value of debt is fixed. So in a deflationary economy, prices fall 10%, but you can't buy more because your income has also fallen 10%. However, your debt hasn't decreased, so you are now using a greater percentage of your...

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You could fuzzlepot hide them randomly in one of your ET posts. Then when/if you forget it, just come back here/to the thread and waLa1!

shortbleu, You're probably underestimating the cost of holding individual securities. There are additional fees associated with holding ADR's. Buying and holding stock on their home exchanges may also incur additional costs. It will certainly involve higher transaction costs. While your...

http://goingconcern.com/2010/10/universal-travel-group-who-appears-to-be-partially-a-fraud-has-gone-through-a-shocking-number-of-auditors-cfos/# "Going Concern" is a site for accountants and CFO's.

This company seems to burn through a lot of auditors. What's up with that?