Global markets finished up strongly overnight on the release of ‘strong’ global manufacturing data. Why do we think this is a bear market rally? We’ll get to that in a moment. First, let’s take a quick look at the bear’s recent work.
February 2nd, 2012 | Greg Canavan | 2 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "bear market"
The Most Common and Costly Investment Mistake
I’d like to tell you about a study I read recently on investing. It’s a slim little booklet titled One-Way Pockets by Don Guyon (a pen name for a broker). The book, which was first published in 1917, covers some studies he did on the trading behavior of accounts at the time. What he found was timeless.
January 31st, 2012 | Chris Mayer | 3 comments | Continued
Sit Tight With The Bull Market: An Investing Lesson From The Great Bear of Wall Street
The book, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre immortalised Jesse Livermore’s exploits. I have never read it so I can’t be sure the following quote is even from that book. But wherever it comes from, it might be the most wise advice you’ll ever read about how to handle a bull market.
January 26th, 2012 | Greg Canavan | 3 comments | Continued
The Bear Dines Out
Needless to say, watching (and feeling) your money being eaten alive by a multi-year bear market is not pleasant. In fact it’s the kind of experience that might prompt you to make a change by, say, selling your shares and giving up on the market once and for all.
January 3rd, 2012 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
Gold Are You In Or Out?
Hey…what’s going on with gold? The dollar up, gold down. When we checked yesterday the price was crashing through the $1,550 level.
December 16th, 2011 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
How Reinvested Dividends Can Double Your Return in Stocks
With the big four banks – traditionally high dividend players – being downgraded by Standard and Poor’s overnight, we thought it was a great time to revisit why dividends are important and how to safely buy the companies that issue them.
December 5th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
Why Should You Be Focussed on Dividends?
Suddenly dividends start to look enticing. Actually, it’s not sudden at all. Investors take a while to realise the bull market is long gone. It’s been just on four years since the market peaked back in November 2007 and we’d guess there are plenty of punters who think the next bull market is just around the corner. Maybe they think we turned that corner today?
December 1st, 2011 | Greg Canavan | 1 comment | Continued
The Stock Market Has Hit Its Low!…Sort of
Global stock markets are in a multi-year bull-market and nominal prices are likely to appreciate for several more months. In our view, we are currently amidst a normal multi-week consolidation phase and most stock markets are likely to stage a sharp year-end advance.
September 9th, 2010 | Puru Saxena | 6 comments | Continued
Every Major Bull Market Needs a Major Bear Market
We’ve had our bull market. It took the Dow from under 1,000 to over 14,000 in the space of 26 years. We’ve had a bubble too. The party was a lot of fun for everyone.
February 8th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 8 comments | Continued
We’re in a Depression, Stocks Gotta Get With the Program
Either the last phase of the bear market has begun. Or it won’t be long before it does. Stocks can go any which way they want in the short run – depending on investors’ delusions.
February 5th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Investors Were Fairly Confident Stocks Would Perform Well ‘Over the Long Run’
Is this a little correction in the long upward climb of stock prices? Is it a pause in humanity’s march to perfection? Or is it a resumption of the bear market that began 2 years ago?
February 1st, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Fred C. Kelly Declares the Crowd is Always Wrong
Kelly wrote this in a little 1930 book titled Why You Win or Lose: the Psychology of Speculation. We’ll see what Kelly meant below.
December 23rd, 2009 | Chris Mayer | 2 comments | Continued
Investors Better Off Investing in Anything but Stocks
The 1990s was the best calendar decade in history for stocks, with an annual gain on average of 17.5%. This decade, by contrast, was the worst calendar decade for stocks going all the way back to the 1820s…
December 22nd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 5 comments | Continued
We Trust Gold Because We Don’t Trust Central Bankers
But now we see that the central bankers are even more unreliable than we imagined. They are diligently trying to do the wrong thing, as usual.
December 17th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
The On-Again, Off-Again Depression
If you step back a bit further, you could see it in a different light. Ten years ago, The Daily Reckoning warned of a long, Japan-like slump. Then, the stock market fell and the economy went into a recession.
December 11th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
