Monday Morning Chartology

The Morning Call

3/11/13

The Market

           

    Technical

       Monday Morning Chartology

  The S&P continues to push ahead; though it has yet to challenge its former all time high as the Dow has done.  For the moment, the trend is your friend.

           

 GLD continues its sick performance.  It will be interesting how it handles the lower boundary of its intermediate term trading range.

           

            The VIX remains within its short and intermediate term downtrend; although it is clearly nearing the lower boundary of its long term trading range---and also its all time low.

            Update on ‘the best stock market indicator ever’:

            http://advisorperspectives.com/dshort/guest/John-Carlucci-Best-Indicator-Ever-Update.php

    Fundamental

    

            An inflated view of the Dow (medium):

            http://alephblog.com/2013/03/06/an-inflated-view-of-the-dow-jones-industrial-average/

          News on Stocks in Our Portfolios

 

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The bloat in our education system (medium and a must read):

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/03/administrative-bloat-educratification-in-americas-public-schools-educrats-now-outnumber-teachers-in-25-states/

  International War Against Radical Islam

Steve Cook received his education in investments from Harvard, where he earned an MBA, New York University, where he did post graduate work in economics and financial analysis and the CFA Institute, where he earned the Chartered Financial Analysts designation in 1973. His 40 years of investment experience includes institutional portfolio management at Scudder, Stevens and Clark and Bear Stearns. Steve's goal at Strategic Stock Investments is to help other investors build wealth and benefit from the investing lessons he learned the hard way.