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Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it. (Brian Tracy) It can be challenging to change our way of thinking. Naturally, we form opinions about people, events and expectations and move forward based on [...]
It’s been quite the ride up for markets in 2012. If you’re keeping score, we have the SPX up 6.7%, Nasdaq up 11.5% and the Dow Industrials higher by about 5%. Pretty good numbers for an entire year, but for [...]
That was quite the reaction to the January jobs report. The big number caught many by surprise but we can now confirm the prior month’s number – perhaps a trend is now in place. Trends like jobs growth tend to [...]
Is there any more hated rally than this one? Oh, I’m sure they are all hated because most tend to miss the boat, the biggest part of the move. It is when the crowd is giddy and they go ‘all [...]
Lots of convergences about to play out this coming week with a plethora of earnings, a Fed meeting and important economic data including a first look at 4th quarter GDP. Markets could be considered overbought or neutral by different metrics. [...]
To be sure, there are always earnings – but four times a year the confessional is filled with mass quantities that last for a good five weeks. It’s one of my favorite times of year. Why? As an option player [...]
Leadership – the capacity to lead, or the act/instance of leading. Where will we find the companies leading markets in 2012? That is the million dollar question. Your recent leaders of today may not be your leaders of tomorrow. PCLN? [...]
We’re about to close the books on this year, and around this time we look back on what went wrong or right, where we can make changes for better results in the new year. I don’t spend too much time [...]
Many traders and investors are like me, having been to the ‘school of hard knocks’ to get educated. If I had my choice I would have taken a different, easier path. The trading barriers to entry are low but the [...]
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