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Auto Parts Stores Thrive: ORLY
Optional Home Improvement – Mandatory Car Maintenance It’s one thing to volunteer for a series of home improvement projects, but it’s quite another to be forced into it. What if those projects didn’t involve your home but involved something almost as important: your car? What...
O’Reilly Auto (ORLY) On Video
We’re back with another shot at making a decent video and highlighting a stock that looks like a good bet. Now please understand, the quality of our video shoots leave room for improvement, not to mention the quality of the host and his abilities behind the camera! That said, we think...
2008 Edgy Award for Best New ETF Goes to DTO
Sometimes it’s all about the product. Sometimes it’s all about timing. The Best New ETF of 2008 has both going for it – it’s the right product at the right time, and it also has the right leverage. PowerShares DB Crude Oil Double Short ETN (DTO) made its debut on June 16, 2008....
Four Steps To Buying A Stock
As we wind up the year and head into 2009, it’s a good time to step back to consider some of the basics again. If only investors had kept to the fundamentals, there would be far less financial regret over the past 12 months. One of those basics is picking the right investments. In this case, we...
Santa’s Wheel House!
The official time period of the so-called “Santa Claus Rally” phenomena is the last 5 trading days of the year and the first two days of the new year. That means we are presently in Santa’s wheel house, as the S&P 500 is +1% or so over the past two days. Kowabunga!! Wall...
Re-Booting America: Part II and a Merry Christmas
Even more shocking events have transpired since I first suggested re-booting our country. As the Federal Reserve, Treasury, and White House race to “save” America, corporations of all shapes and sizes have been brought to their knees. So have many families. People around the globe are being...
The Unexpected Christmas Present of ETF Distributions
We knew it could probably happen but hoped it wouldn’t – large taxable distributions from ETFs, that is. How often have we heard that tax-efficiency is one of the major advantages of ETFs over traditional open-end mutual funds? In fact, I challenge you to show me an ETF sponsor’s...
The January Effect and IWM
Observe the stock market long enough and you start to notice patterns on the calendar. In fact, there is a whole category of “seasonality” trades that are based on tendencies for certain things to happen at certain times of the year. None of them are perfect, but they work often enough...
Merry Christmas From the Stock Market
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