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After a quick perusal of SPY on Yahoo charts, it seems using the 50 day gives better results than the 200 day. There were several cases where it got you in at a lower price and out higher, and a couple of cases where it got you in for a profit where with the 200 day you would have stayed in...

A little bit of whipsawing isn't bad for ETF trading, like $8.95 at Schwab, plus I've heard the some brokers are offering commission-free ETF trades. ETA: From the 9/14 entry on Faber's blog: http://www.mebanefaber.com/

I clicked the ivy link today and got no warning.

So what are your results? BTW, when I clicked the link, Google gave me this warning (just the text, I'm too lazy to do a screenshot and upload it): Reported Attack Page! This web page at www.theivyportfolio.com has been reported as an attack page and has been blocked based on your...

I think I know why Buffett is so bullish. I know a guy who worked for Well Fargo in Phoenix. He had been making well over $100,000 per year, but he was laid off last year (or maybe in 2008). I just heard he is back working for Wells doing the same job but at a highly reduced salary, probably...

I think residential real estate has further to come down, putting pressure on rents, so i expect the risk part of the leverage equation will come to bear (pun).

SPECIALTY FINANCIAL 6160 Plumas Street, Ste. 200 Reno, Nevada 89519 I know that street. Just off McCarran there are two huge apartment complexes. one is in default and the other is being foreclosed. The rest of the street is made up of mostly vacant office buildings. The website is a...

I'm thinking it might be time to buy outright rather than take a loan on rental property. Look at your last one, the 6-plex for $250,000. It says 100% rented and takes in $34,455 per year in rent. That's over 13% gross. Subtract out your costs and it still beats most other investments these...

Middle of next year?

So why low beta? Wouldn't that mean low IV and low premium? Do you not get paid more for higher beta everything evens out in the long run?

Would or should? So you sell puts on individual stocks and buy protection on a total market meltdown with long index puts? There is a book by Jeffrey Cohen called Put Options that describes such a method. It was published in 2003 so it doesn't mention using VIX (i.e. if the market crashes the...

Well, we know how well they can be trusted...

Who rates them AAA?

Did Hendry make a profit? ETA: Oops, didn't see the previous post asking the same question.

I don't necessarily agree with the abiogenic theory, but I have two questions: - has anyone ever proven that oil is a "fossil fuel"? - how did all that oil get miles below the water and earth in the Gulf Of Mexico? oil is typically found underneath salt domes because it tends to rise and...

Isn't that what the Germans did toward the end of WWII when they couldn't get a goos supply of oil?

With the stock market fluctuating so much these days why not put on both bullish and bearish BWBs and lock in one win the market goes one way, then lock in the other when it goes the other way? Of course if I tried this the market wouldn't cooperate.

I seem to recall they were developing laser correction for farsightedness a few years ago. Instead of removing a bit of the lens from the center the make little slices around the edge and the lens is supposed to get thicker. Don't know if it was ever successful.

I'll never own another M-B. I bought it to last 20 years and it started falling apart after a couple. Every time I took it in for scheduled service it would cost anywhere from $500 to $2000 extra. And the dealer was the most dishonest I have ever dealt with.

Yeah, the rest of the world is doing great. That must be why the IMF just removed the borrowing limits on bailout loans.