Author: evencio.alvarez14@gmail.com
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EM Stocks Are At Record Cheap Levels… [Dirty Dozen]
My fear of the markets has forced me to hone my timing with great precision. When I am trading properly, it is like a pool player running racks. If my gut feel of market conditions is not right, I don’t trade. ~ Mark WeinsteinIn this week’s Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK], we talk fund manager sentiment,…
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William O’Neil’s CAN SLIM Trading Strategy Explained
William O’Neil is a highly successful investor and businessman who is the definition of an American success story. Born in Oklahoma during the Great Depression and raised in Texas, O’Neil started his financial career as a stockbroker for Hayden, Stone and Company in 1958. It was there that he began his research that formed his…
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Bull, Bear & Coppock Curve: Unlocking Generational Opportunities
“Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes time, hard work, persistence, patience, proper intent, and constant self-awareness. The path to such success is punctuated by failure, consolidation, and renewed effort. It is wet with the tears of…
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The Flow Show… [Dirty Dozen]
“This company looks cheap, that company looks cheap, but the overall economy could completely screw it up. The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.” ~ David Tepper In this week’s Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK], we look at disappointing cyclical breadth, deteriorating SPX and sector margins, bearish positioning…
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William Eckhardt’s Market Wizard Trading Strategy Explained
William Eckhardt is a Market Wizard and Godfather of the popular trend-following trading method: The Turtle Trader. Eckhardt, a former mathematician, left the academic world to pursue trading full-time and never looked back. He raked in profits and generated an average return of 62% in the twelve years before his Market Wizards interview. Eckhardt was…
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This Market Is a Bag Of Snakes… [Dirty Dozen]
“Those whom the gods would destroy they first make proud.” ~ Sophocles In this week’s Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK], we look at what fund managers are doing, go over the extremes in bearish sentiment and positioning, run through the multiple signals of an inbound bullish run over the short-term. We then look at housing, labor…
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Tighter Lending = Looser Labor… [Dirty Dozen]
You tend to think past financial crises resemble earthquakes. They are not one-shot events. They are like bad relationships: drama, gloom, resolution, bounce back, optimism, it’s all going to be fine, then another drama, another gloom, a huge bounce back, then…~ Nassim Taleb In this week’s Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK], we look at tightening lending…
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Mark Ritchie’s Trading Strategy Explained
Mark Ritchie was one of the greatest traders of his generation. He started trading in 1987 with a $1M account and generated a 50% annual return over his first four years. In fact, 90% of Ritchie’s trading weeks were profitable. Mark is a self-taught Market Wizard. He scraped by during his early trading years working…
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Why Dying Industries Can Make Great Investments
Competition Demystified is among my favorite investing books. Its supply-side analysis framework starkly contrasts today’s analysts obsessed with “growth” and forecasting demand to the nearest decimal.Towards the end of the book, Greenwald shares an interesting story about the gasoline additives business. He explained how an industry with these characteristics (from the book): Commodity product Substantial overcapacity…
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Cashless Earnings… [Dirty Dozen]
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same laws ~ Arthur Schopenhauer In this week’s Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK], we look at the structural changes to inflation drivers, discuss why market leads should give pause to the bears, look at poor earnings quality, recession risk in Europe, and a short setup in Ags, plus…