The Long and Short of it, I Tell Ya

Posted on August 8, 2007

With the stock market in the midst of a long overdue dip, I have shifted gears in my growth portfolios (Factor 92, Primary Trend, Socially Screened and Global All Star), moving from fully invested to a much more defensive posture that includes both long and short investments. If you have followed my newsletter for a while you might remember the recent description of hedging with “shorts”

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Exploding the Wall Street Myths

Posted on February 22, 2007

Exploding the Wall Street Myths Wall Street must have a propaganda machine to generate so many great investment myths. Like most myths, many begin with a kernel of truth, but end up inferring much that may not be true. Shrewd operators (like many financial institutions) often take these myths and use them for their own ends. The inducements are familiar—potential tax savings, greater returns, less effort

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This Time is Different?

Posted on December 6, 2006

This Time Is Different… I have mentioned a looming business slowdown several times in my newsletters this year, because these things are normally very significant for the stock markets. Slowdowns– when they go far enough– become economic recessions. Signs are now everywhere that the economy is in fact… slowing down. Among numerous negatives and indications of a looming recession, the yield curve (the relationship between long

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Covering Your Shorts

Posted on August 1, 2006

Covering Your Shorts The term “covering your shorts” sounds sort of nasty, kind of like something my 16 year old son might come up with, but shorts are just investments that go up as a market goes down. Covering means getting out of a short investment. An investor who thinks the market is high and will be headed lower can borrow certain number of shares

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February 2005: China

Posted on December 23, 2005

by Will Hepburn China CHINA — It is very much a present influence. Wait until you see to what extent China is going to influence our future. (Thanks to Richard Russell, of Dow Theory Letters) China’s population is five times that of the U.S. China has one of the world’s oldest civilizations with a long history of innovation. The Chinese invented gunpowder, and paper money. Although

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