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Mark Hulbert: Bull Market May Have Ended Yesterday
Coincidentally, October 9th was a major turning point for the stock market twice in...
- Posted October 10, 2012
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AAII Puts Current Investor Allocation in Historical Perspective
The Pragmatic Capitalism blog commented on the fact that smaller investors are shifting out...
- Posted January 5, 2011
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John Bogle’s New Book: “Don’t Count on It!: Reflections on Investment Illusions, Capitalism, ‘Mutual’ Funds, Indexing, Entrepreneurship, Idealism and Heroes”
Amazon features a Q & A with John Bogle regarding his new book: In...
- Posted January 2, 2011
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The Market Thoroughly Convinces Investors to be Optimistic
Paul J. Lim, senior editor at Money Magazine, has written an article published in...
- Posted December 26, 2010
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The "Experts" Are Unanimous: Get Into Stocks
Adam Shell of the USA Today recently hosted a roundtable featuring the bullish views of...
- Posted December 23, 2010
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Amazon’s Great Deal on the Highly Acclaimed "Mad Men" Series
As a head’s up, Amazon has an incredible deal on Mad Men on Blu-ray...
- Posted November 27, 2010
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Signs of Hope for Future Economic Growth
Ian Shepherdson, chief United States economist at High Frequency Economics, is seeing optimistic trends...
- Posted November 7, 2010
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Jeff Saut’s Best Ways to Play a Market Continuing to Run
Raymond James Chief Strategist Jeff Saut, Beacon Capital Management Partner...
- January 1, 2014
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Alarming Chart of the Stock Markets of 1987 and 2012-2013
Several days ago I posted a chart showing the S&P...
- May 22, 2013
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Jim Chanos Explains Why He Wouldn’t Invest in Herbalife
Highly regarded short seller Jim Chanos told Bloomberg’s Trish Regan...
- March 1, 2013
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Mark Hulbert: Bull Market May Have Ended Yesterday
Coincidentally, October 9th was a major turning point for the...
- October 10, 2012
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AAII Puts Current Investor Allocation in Historical Perspective
The Pragmatic Capitalism blog commented on the fact that smaller...
- January 5, 2011
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AT&T and BT Group Added to the SMA Portfolio
Weakness in the telecom sector, along with rising interest...
- May 18, 2018
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Mary Ann Bartels Explains The Thesis of the Secular Bull
Mary Ann Bartels, CIO at Bank of America -...
- January 7, 2018
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Jeff Saut Bullish on Prospects for Stocks in 2018
Jeff Saut, chief investment strategist at Raymond James, was...
- December 30, 2017
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Is the Retirement Crisis Really a Crisis?
PBS Frontline recently presented a documentary called “The Retirement...
- April 25, 2013
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Alarming Chart of the Stock Markets of 1987 and 2012-2013
Several days ago I posted a chart showing the...
- May 22, 2013
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Gary Shilling’s Favorite Investment: 30 Year Treasuries
Larry Kudlow interviewed Gary Shilling last week. Shilling continues...
- June 23, 2011
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Based on a scale of 1 (major complacency) to 10 (extreme fear): Current and Selected Past Readings:

Date	Index	SMA Comment
1/11/2018	1.8	Unusually low fear could mean we're near the top in valuations
1/13/16	6.3	Terrible start to 2016 raised fears
10/3/11	8.5	A good tradable bottom (S&P 500 @ 1,085) based on lots of nonsense
3/9/09	7.0	Market bottom (S&P 500 @ 666); end of the world was nigh
10/27/08	8.8	Market had dropped 28% in 5 weeks, Paulson pulled out all stops to save Wall Street bankers
10/12/07	3.2	Market top (S&P 500 @ 1,562); worldwide housing bubble starting to be pricked