Mike Santoli recently interviewed Felix Zulauf, president of Zulauf Asset Management, in conjunction with the Barron’s Roundtable. According to Pundit Tracker, Zulauf was the most accurate Roundtable member over the past 10 years. Zulauf commented that the European Union had an agreement in early December which has to be ratified starting in late April of [...]
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T.T.S. Fear Index
Based on a scale of 1 (major complacency) to 10 (extreme fear):
Recent Readings
Date....... Index
2/17/12......3.3
10/3/11......8.5
8/10/11......7.5
4/29/11......2.8
3/9/09........7.0 (Market bottom)
10/27/08.....8.8 (Market had dropped 28% in 5 weeks)
10/12/07.....3.2 (Market top)
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Year-to-Date Performance as of February 17, 2012
SMA Portfolio.......+4.6%
S&P 500 Index......+8.6%
Small Cap Index...+12.3%
Total U. S Index....+9.5%
Int'l Index...........+11.8%
SMA Portfolio Holdings/Allocation %
ASA Gold & Precious Metals Ltd (ASA) 1.4%
BT Group PLC (BT) 1.8%
Exxon Mobil (XOM) 2.9%
iShares S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index ETF (PFF) 3.6%
Marathon Oil (MRO) 1.8%
Marathon Petroleum (MPC) 1.1%
Morgan Stanley Emerging Market Debt Fund (MSD) 6.7%
Nautilus Inc. (NLS) 1.3%
Pepsico (PEP) 2.7%
Pfizer (PFE) 3.3%
Rayonier Inc. (RYN) 4.2%
SPDR DJ Wilshire Int'l Real Estate ETF (RWX) 3.0%
Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corp Bond ETF (VCIT) 14.4%
Vanguard Short-Term Corp Bond ETF (VCSH) 30.1%
Vanguard Total Bond ETF (BND) 15.6%
Weyerhaeuser (WY) 2.5%
WisdomTree Emerging Mkts Hi Yld ETF (DEM) 3.6%
Cash 0.1%
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