Monday, December 7, 2015

I think I’m dumb + MORE 7:49 pm Dec 7th

Energy Price Deflation: Crude Dips 6% to 7-Year Low; Gasoline Below $1.50; Central Banks to Blame for What's About to HappenPerverse Central Bank BattleIn the perverse central bank battle to defeat price deflation, the central banks are having a rough go of things.The price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) light sweet crude is down 6 percent today to lows last seen late 2008 and January 2009.West Texas Crude MonthlyThere has not been a WTI monthly close lower than $38…

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Fresh from the LD Micro Conference in Los Angeles, Scott Krisiloff, CFA, offers a peek inside micro-cap land. The big question: What is it like to be a micro-cap company? Read more

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I think I’m dumb

– thereformedbroker.com

Financial Times, December 7th 2015:
Many hedge funds bet big against the euro and in favour of the US dollar and although they were ultimately correct in terms of these currencies diverging, the trading of this relationship has proven painfully volatile. Many hedge funds have been caught off guard by brutal swings and reversals that resulted in a number of them losing their nerve…

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You + The Winter Blues – Help Is On The Way

– girlsjustwannahavefunds.com

You + The Winter Blues – Help Is On The WayYou’re probably feeling more tired than usual, sleeping more and don’t really feel like dealing with friends and family.  Or maybe you’re anxious and find that you don’t want to engage in stuff that you normally do. With the change in weather, you might be suffering from “winter blues” or what we know formally as Seasonal Affective Disorder…

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The Rise and Fall of SWN

– crossingwallstreet.com

The Rise and Fall of SWNRelated to my previous post on oil, check out the long-term chart on Southwestern Energy (SWN).

This was one of the super-star stocks of the last decade. Note that the graph is logarithmic so those are massive gains. In three years, the stock jumped nearly 15-fold. In 2005, SWN split 2-for-1 twice…

Continue Reading On crossingwallstreet.com »

Submitted by Dan Sanchez via DanSanchez.me, You’ve seen those internet ads that offer “one weird trick” for eliminating belly fat or boosting testosterone, right? Well, here’s one weird trick for getting rid of ISIS and boosting our security from terrorism. The “trick” is non-intervention…

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Are Inverse ETFs a Good Way to Reduce Risk?A reader writes in, asking:
“I recently learned about ‘Inverse ETFS’ that do the inverse of what the market does: up by 5% if the market is down by 5% and so on. Can these be a useful tool for scaling down risk in a portfolio?”
For most individual investors inverse ETFs are not an ideal method for reducing risk…

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The energy sector can’t seem to catch a break, as crude futures are off by 6% and natural gas futures are down by 5.5% on the first full trading day after OPEC decided to increase its crude production quota by 1.5 million barrels a day (bpd), to 31.5 million bpd. Because of the blood bath in….

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This week in our Masters in Business radio podcast, we speak with Roger Lowenstein, author of the award winning When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management.  His latest book is America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve. (He is also a director of the Sequoia fund…

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Energy Price Deflation: Crude Dips 6% to 7-Year Low; Gasoline Below $1.50; Central Banks to Blame for What's About to HappenPerverse Central Bank BattleIn the perverse central bank battle to defeat price deflation, the central banks are having a rough go of things.The price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) light sweet crude is down 6 percent today to lows last seen late 2008 and January 2009.West Texas Crude MonthlyThere has not been a WTI monthly close lower than $38…

Continue Reading On globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com »

Fresh from the LD Micro Conference in Los Angeles, Scott Krisiloff, CFA, offers a peek inside micro-cap land. The big question: What is it like to be a micro-cap company? Read more

Continue Reading On cfainstitute.org »

I think I’m dumb

– thereformedbroker.com

Financial Times, December 7th 2015:
Many hedge funds bet big against the euro and in favour of the US dollar and although they were ultimately correct in terms of these currencies diverging, the trading of this relationship has proven painfully volatile. Many hedge funds have been caught off guard by brutal swings and reversals that resulted in a number of them losing their nerve…

Continue Reading On thereformedbroker.com »

You + The Winter Blues – Help Is On The Way

– girlsjustwannahavefunds.com

You + The Winter Blues – Help Is On The WayYou’re probably feeling more tired than usual, sleeping more and don’t really feel like dealing with friends and family.  Or maybe you’re anxious and find that you don’t want to engage in stuff that you normally do. With the change in weather, you might be suffering from “winter blues” or what we know formally as Seasonal Affective Disorder…

Continue Reading On girlsjustwannahavefunds.com »

The Rise and Fall of SWN

– crossingwallstreet.com

The Rise and Fall of SWNRelated to my previous post on oil, check out the long-term chart on Southwestern Energy (SWN).

This was one of the super-star stocks of the last decade. Note that the graph is logarithmic so those are massive gains. In three years, the stock jumped nearly 15-fold. In 2005, SWN split 2-for-1 twice…

Continue Reading On crossingwallstreet.com »

Submitted by Dan Sanchez via DanSanchez.me, You’ve seen those internet ads that offer “one weird trick” for eliminating belly fat or boosting testosterone, right? Well, here’s one weird trick for getting rid of ISIS and boosting our security from terrorism. The “trick” is non-intervention…

Continue Reading On zerohedge.com/ »

Are Inverse ETFs a Good Way to Reduce Risk?A reader writes in, asking:
“I recently learned about ‘Inverse ETFS’ that do the inverse of what the market does: up by 5% if the market is down by 5% and so on. Can these be a useful tool for scaling down risk in a portfolio?”
For most individual investors inverse ETFs are not an ideal method for reducing risk…

Continue Reading On obliviousinvestor.com »

The energy sector can’t seem to catch a break, as crude futures are off by 6% and natural gas futures are down by 5.5% on the first full trading day after OPEC decided to increase its crude production quota by 1.5 million barrels a day (bpd), to 31.5 million bpd. Because of the blood bath in….

Continue Reading On insidermonkey.com »

This week in our Masters in Business radio podcast, we speak with Roger Lowenstein, author of the award winning When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management.  His latest book is America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve. (He is also a director of the Sequoia fund…

Continue Reading On ritholtz.com »

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