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Groucho Marx Writes the Greatest Shareholder Letter Ever

Joshua M Brown February 22nd, 2012 Hedge fund manager Dan Loeb has become well-known for the acerbic letters he's written to poorly-performing management teams but let me assure you, he's got nothi...

More Room to Rally | The Big Picture

Click to enlarge: Source: Pension Partners LLC > Although markets have already rallied strongly in 2012, the move is still early if current price ratio trends behave similarly to recent history.  T...

Are We Genetically Programmed to Be Bad Investors? - Total Return

By Jason ZweigReuters Twin sisters Mary Kate Olsen and Ashley Olson at New York Fashion Week.Why are some people more prone to stupid financial behavior than others? Several of the most common and ...

THE CDS MARKETS ARE STILL PRICING IN A GREEK DISASTER…

Home » Most Recent Stories 22 February 2012 by Sober Look0 Comments By Walter Kurtz, Sober Look A curious thing happened with the Greek sovereign CDS in the last couple of days. It widened out in s...

Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year's End

screenshot via GoogleThe Google glasses will use augmented reality software to return real-time information about locations and people.People who constantly reach into a pocket to check a smartphon...

Phys Ed: How Exercise Fuels the Brain

Shannon Stapleton/ReutersDoes exercise keep your brain running?Moving the body demands a lot from the brain. Exercise activates countless neurons, which generate, receive and interpret repeated, ra...

Taxes On Rich People Are About To Go UP

APFair share, baby. Fair share. There has been a lot of fighting about the possibility of raising taxes on the highest-earning Americans. There has also been frustration about how much President Ob...

All The Stars Are Saying You Should Buy Stocks

  It has been my observation over (sadly) a long period of time that when all of the “stars” line up and point in one direction, it’s often time to go in another direction. The commentary on the TV...

Google Wants to Plant 1,000 Acres of Satellite Dishes in Iowa

Google Fiber Inc., a subsidiary of the search giant, is asking the FCC for permission to install 4.5 meter satellite antennas on 1,000 acres of land next to its data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa....

The Felder Report: Is This Time Different?

There's a question that has been floating around the back of my mind for the past couple of years: do we need to make another generational low and retest the 2009 bottom before a new super-cycle bu...

It's Not Too Late to Become a Yoga Believer

Yvetta FedorovaOne morning, a well-meaning swimming buddy called out for all in the Y locker room to hear: “I can’t believe Jane Brody doesn’t do yoga!”She was right: I didn’t do yoga and, not know...

There’s More to Nothing Than We Knew

Why is there something, rather than nothing at all? It is, perhaps, the mystery of last resort. Scientists may be at least theoretically able to trace every last galaxy back to a bump i...

Calculated Risk: Home Depot on Housing

by CalculatedRisk on 2/21/2012 08:24:00 PMThere were some interesting comments from the Home Depot CEO today (transcript with via Seeking Alpha). Home Dept CEO Francis Blake talked about the favora...

Dow Transports Diverge From Industrials

Dow Theorists look for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and the Dow Jones Transportation Average to confirm each other.  That means that when one index makes a new high, the other should be ...

Dollar-Cost Averaging: An Emotional Insurance Policy

Carl RichardsCarl Richards is a certified financial planner in Park City, Utah. His new book, “The Behavior Gap,” was published earlier this year. His sketches are archived here on the Bucks blog. ...

5 Qualities of All Great Traders

I met Joe Fahmy a few years ago at Lindzenpalooza. He has a great way of communicating his trading skills to a novice to intermediate traders based on his 16 years of trading. Fahmy has guided his ...

Apple Confirms Prineville Data Center Plans - News Story

PRINEVILLE, Ore. -- Tech giant Apple Inc. confirmed Tuesday to NewsChannel 21 that it plans to build a data center at a 160-acre parcel in Prineville it just bought from Crook County for $5.6 milli...

Looking For Space by John Denver on Spotify

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Fear & Greed Syndrome: Individual Investors Are Bad Market Timers - jessefelder's posterous

Retail SPDR Traces Out Bearish Engulfing - Don't Ignore This Chart!

The Retail SPDR (XRT) hit a new high with a gap last week, but failed to hold this gap as a bearish engulfing pattern formed on Tuesday. Volume also perked up to its highest level in four days. Aft...