Largecap Core Alphadex First Trust (FEX) 47.29 $FEX
Patience Is A Virtue
Carbide Capital Inc. - Seeking Alpha - Thu Mar 19, 3:19PM CDT
In a high tech world where we demand everything instantaneously, sometimes it's good to just sit back and be patient. The topic of whether the FED would remove the word "patient" and set the stage for an interest rate hike in June or September has...
FEX: 47.29 (+0.43), SPLV: 38.46 (+0.44), SPUU: 147.23 (+2.56), SPHQ: 23.76 (+0.14), SDOW: 18.67 (-0.54), SPLX: 32.11 (+0.17), EQAL: 25.91 (+0.17), DOG: 22.65 (-0.21), SPXU: 34.08 (-0.91), CFO: 37.64 (+0.32), SPXS: 18.42 (-0.48), PRF: 92.59 (+0.53), SPY: 210.41 (+0.91), EEH: 15.64 (+0.18), ERW: 54.77 (+0.55), DXD: 20.49 (-0.39), SQQQ: 24.71 (-0.55), QQXT: 42.42 (+0.36), SPXL: 93.79 (+2.44), LGLV: 74.32 (-0.41), RWL: 41.97 (+0.39), RSP: 82.15 (+0.47), SCHX: 50.69 (+0.43), SYE: 58.56 (unch), QQEW: 45.05 (+0.40), IVV: 212.85 (+1.86), VONE: 97.85 (+0.82), DDM: 139.89 (+2.56), QQQE: 67.12 (+0.63), IWB: 118.57 (+1.11), SDS: 20.56 (-0.37), MGC: 72.06 (+0.58), SPHB: 35.01 (+0.36), IWL: 47.90 (+0.38), PSQ: 56.05 (-0.41), ROLA: 160.00 (unch), ZLRG: 26.35 (+0.11), TQQQ: 112.21 (+2.28), SBUS: 25.46 (+0.21), UPRO: 141.67 (+3.65), FMK: 27.49 (+0.33), EPS: 73.15 (+0.64), OEF: 92.78 (+0.84), DIA: 180.96 (+1.30), XLG: 143.07 (-0.13), QID: 34.94 (-0.49), SFLA: 159.00 (-21.57), CFA: 37.52 (+0.54), SH: 21.08 (-0.19), SSO: 134.65 (+2.34), QLD: 150.97 (+2.05), VOO: 193.85 (+1.74), PXLC: 40.77 (+0.15), QQQ: 108.53 (+0.45), ONEK: 99.56 (+0.39), FWDD: 44.49 (+0.48), VV: 97.40 (+0.88), EQL: 57.89 (+0.55), UDOW: 148.21 (+3.86), EWRI: 52.55 (+0.27), JKD: 124.23 (+1.12)
Duck This Dip- There's More Crazy Stuff Coming
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Tue Mar 17, 1:00PM CDT
(Originally posted March 15) That didn’t take long! Yesterday’s rip was supposed to have turned the market back up. Its close at well above the “crucial” 2060 chart point on the S&P 500 cash index meant...
FEX: 47.29 (+0.43), SPLV: 38.46 (+0.44), SPUU: 147.23 (+2.56), SPHQ: 23.76 (+0.14), SDOW: 18.67 (-0.54), SPLX: 32.11 (+0.17), EQAL: 25.91 (+0.17), DOG: 22.65 (-0.21), SPXU: 34.08 (-0.91), CFO: 37.64 (+0.32), SPXS: 18.42 (-0.48), PRF: 92.59 (+0.53), SPY: 210.41 (+0.91), EEH: 15.64 (+0.18), ERW: 54.77 (+0.55), DXD: 20.49 (-0.39), SQQQ: 24.71 (-0.55), QQXT: 42.42 (+0.36), SPXL: 93.79 (+2.44), LGLV: 74.32 (-0.41), RWL: 41.97 (+0.39), RSP: 82.15 (+0.47), SCHX: 50.69 (+0.43), SYE: 58.56 (unch), QQEW: 45.05 (+0.40), IVV: 212.85 (+1.86), VONE: 97.85 (+0.82), DDM: 139.89 (+2.56), QQQE: 67.12 (+0.63), IWB: 118.57 (+1.11), SDS: 20.56 (-0.37), MGC: 72.06 (+0.58), SPHB: 35.01 (+0.36), IWL: 47.90 (+0.38), PSQ: 56.05 (-0.41), ROLA: 160.00 (unch), ZLRG: 26.35 (+0.11), NY: 86.10 (+0.08), TQQQ: 112.21 (+2.28), SBUS: 25.46 (+0.21), UPRO: 141.67 (+3.65), FMK: 27.49 (+0.33), EPS: 73.15 (+0.64), OEF: 92.78 (+0.84), DIA: 180.96 (+1.30), XLG: 143.07 (-0.13), QID: 34.94 (-0.49), SFLA: 159.00 (-21.57), CFA: 37.52 (+0.54), SH: 21.08 (-0.19), SSO: 134.65 (+2.34), QLD: 150.97 (+2.05), BXUC: 299.86 (unch), VOO: 193.85 (+1.74), PXLC: 40.77 (+0.15), QQQ: 108.53 (+0.45), ONEK: 99.56 (+0.39), FWDD: 44.49 (+0.48), BXUB: 201.74 (unch), VV: 97.40 (+0.88), EQL: 57.89 (+0.55), UDOW: 148.21 (+3.86), EWRI: 52.55 (+0.27), JKD: 124.23 (+1.12)
BAML survey: Fund managers move out of U.S. stocks
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Tue Mar 17, 11:21AM CDT
FEX: 47.29 (+0.43), FEZ: 39.29 (+1.10), VGK: 55.87 (+1.41), ZLRG: 26.35 (+0.11), DBEU: 29.69 (+0.31), FEP: 31.62 (+0.65), FIEU: 119.23 (+5.93), FEUZ: 32.88 (+0.78), IEUR: 46.52 (+1.12), UPV: 48.39 (+2.14), SBUS: 25.46 (+0.21), FEU: 36.03 (+0.69), EPV: 54.01 (-2.86), HEDJ: 66.87 (+0.74), EEH: 15.64 (+0.18), ERW: 54.77 (+0.55), DBEZ: 29.79 (+0.37), ESTX: 47.80 (+1.54), HEZU: 29.31 (+0.39), ADRU: 23.48 (+0.56), SCHX: 50.69 (+0.43), EURL: 34.21 (+2.36), FEEU: 115.60 (+6.09), SYE: 58.56 (unch), EZU: 39.08 (+1.08), SBEU: 25.31 (-0.10), IEV: 45.29 (+1.11), FWDD: 44.49 (+0.48), VV: 97.40 (+0.88), EQL: 57.89 (+0.55), IWL: 47.90 (+0.38), JKD: 124.23 (+1.12)
The Fed Can't Slow Down, And That's Good For Stocks
Joe Leider - Seeking Alpha - Fri Mar 13, 10:08AM CDT
For those of you who missed the 1990s, the movie ' Speed' inexplicably became a box office hit. The villain, played by Dennis Hopper, attaches a bomb to a bus that will explode if it goes under 50 mph. What follows is a trail of destruction through...
FEX: 47.29 (+0.43), SCHX: 50.69 (+0.43), TAPR: 29.23 (-0.27), VV: 97.40 (+0.88), GOVT: 25.50 (+0.04), PLW: 33.61 (+0.10)
The Great Immoderation: How The Fed Is Sowing The Next Recession
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Thu Mar 12, 2:51PM CDT
In February 2004 Ben Bernanke famously declared the business cycle had been tamed and took a bow in behalf of enlightened monetary management, claiming it was the principal source of this beneficent development. Exactly 55 months later, of course, he...
FEX: 47.29 (+0.43), SPLV: 38.46 (+0.44), SPUU: 147.23 (+2.56), SPHQ: 23.76 (+0.14), SDOW: 18.67 (-0.54), SPLX: 32.11 (+0.17), EQAL: 25.91 (+0.17), DOG: 22.65 (-0.21), SPXU: 34.08 (-0.91), CFO: 37.64 (+0.32), SPXS: 18.42 (-0.48), PRF: 92.59 (+0.53), SPY: 210.41 (+0.91), EEH: 15.64 (+0.18), ERW: 54.77 (+0.55), DXD: 20.49 (-0.39), SQQQ: 24.71 (-0.55), QQXT: 42.42 (+0.36), SPXL: 93.79 (+2.44), LGLV: 74.32 (-0.41), RWL: 41.97 (+0.39), RSP: 82.15 (+0.47), SCHX: 50.69 (+0.43), SYE: 58.56 (unch), QQEW: 45.05 (+0.40), IVV: 212.85 (+1.86), VONE: 97.85 (+0.82), DDM: 139.89 (+2.56), QQQE: 67.12 (+0.63), IWB: 118.57 (+1.11), SDS: 20.56 (-0.37), MGC: 72.06 (+0.58), SPHB: 35.01 (+0.36), IWL: 47.90 (+0.38), PSQ: 56.05 (-0.41), ROLA: 160.00 (unch), ZLRG: 26.35 (+0.11), NY: 86.10 (+0.08), TQQQ: 112.21 (+2.28), SBUS: 25.46 (+0.21), UPRO: 141.67 (+3.65), FMK: 27.49 (+0.33), EPS: 73.15 (+0.64), OEF: 92.78 (+0.84), DIA: 180.96 (+1.30), XLG: 143.07 (-0.13), QID: 34.94 (-0.49), SFLA: 159.00 (-21.57), CFA: 37.52 (+0.54), SH: 21.08 (-0.19), SSO: 134.65 (+2.34), QLD: 150.97 (+2.05), BXUC: 299.86 (unch), VOO: 193.85 (+1.74), PXLC: 40.77 (+0.15), QQQ: 108.53 (+0.45), ONEK: 99.56 (+0.39), FWDD: 44.49 (+0.48), BXUB: 201.74 (unch), VV: 97.40 (+0.88), EQL: 57.89 (+0.55), UDOW: 148.21 (+3.86), EWRI: 52.55 (+0.27), JKD: 124.23 (+1.12)
Merger Monday In The Casino: Why SPG's Paying 56X For Macerich's Going Nowhere Malls
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Wed Mar 11, 8:03AM CDT
Now comes a prime example of central bank financial repression at work. It’s downright ugly and crystalizes how the Fed and other central banks are generating massive mis-allocations of capital and staggering windfall gains to Wall Street...
FEX: 47.29 (+0.43), SPLV: 38.46 (+0.44), SPUU: 147.23 (+2.56), SPHQ: 23.76 (+0.14), SDOW: 18.67 (-0.54), SPLX: 32.11 (+0.17), EQAL: 25.91 (+0.17), DOG: 22.65 (-0.21), SPXU: 34.08 (-0.91), CFO: 37.64 (+0.32), SPXS: 18.42 (-0.48), PRF: 92.59 (+0.53), SPY: 210.41 (+0.91), EEH: 15.64 (+0.18), ERW: 54.77 (+0.55), DXD: 20.49 (-0.39), SQQQ: 24.71 (-0.55), QQXT: 42.42 (+0.36), SPXL: 93.79 (+2.44), LGLV: 74.32 (-0.41), RWL: 41.97 (+0.39), RSP: 82.15 (+0.47), SCHX: 50.69 (+0.43), SYE: 58.56 (unch), QQEW: 45.05 (+0.40), IVV: 212.85 (+1.86), VONE: 97.85 (+0.82), DDM: 139.89 (+2.56), QQQE: 67.12 (+0.63), IWB: 118.57 (+1.11), SDS: 20.56 (-0.37), MGC: 72.06 (+0.58), SPHB: 35.01 (+0.36), IWL: 47.90 (+0.38), PSQ: 56.05 (-0.41), ROLA: 160.00 (unch), ZLRG: 26.35 (+0.11), NY: 86.10 (+0.08), TQQQ: 112.21 (+2.28), SBUS: 25.46 (+0.21), UPRO: 141.67 (+3.65), FMK: 27.49 (+0.33), EPS: 73.15 (+0.64), OEF: 92.78 (+0.84), DIA: 180.96 (+1.30), XLG: 143.07 (-0.13), QID: 34.94 (-0.49), SFLA: 159.00 (-21.57), CFA: 37.52 (+0.54), SH: 21.08 (-0.19), SSO: 134.65 (+2.34), QLD: 150.97 (+2.05), BXUC: 299.86 (unch), VOO: 193.85 (+1.74), PXLC: 40.77 (+0.15), QQQ: 108.53 (+0.45), ONEK: 99.56 (+0.39), FWDD: 44.49 (+0.48), BXUB: 201.74 (unch), VV: 97.40 (+0.88), EQL: 57.89 (+0.55), UDOW: 148.21 (+3.86), EWRI: 52.55 (+0.27), JKD: 124.23 (+1.12)
Six Years Of Bull Market Bull
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Tue Mar 10, 7:25AM CDT
Never has there been a more artificial—-indeed, phony—–gain in the stock market than the 215% eruption orchestrated by the Fed since the post-crisis bottom six years ago today. And the operative word is “orchestrated”...
FEX: 47.29 (+0.43), SPLV: 38.46 (+0.44), SPUU: 147.23 (+2.56), SPHQ: 23.76 (+0.14), SDOW: 18.67 (-0.54), SPLX: 32.11 (+0.17), EQAL: 25.91 (+0.17), DOG: 22.65 (-0.21), SPXU: 34.08 (-0.91), CFO: 37.64 (+0.32), SPXS: 18.42 (-0.48), PRF: 92.59 (+0.53), SPY: 210.41 (+0.91), EEH: 15.64 (+0.18), ERW: 54.77 (+0.55), DXD: 20.49 (-0.39), SQQQ: 24.71 (-0.55), QQXT: 42.42 (+0.36), SPXL: 93.79 (+2.44), LGLV: 74.32 (-0.41), RWL: 41.97 (+0.39), RSP: 82.15 (+0.47), SCHX: 50.69 (+0.43), SYE: 58.56 (unch), QQEW: 45.05 (+0.40), IVV: 212.85 (+1.86), VONE: 97.85 (+0.82), DDM: 139.89 (+2.56), QQQE: 67.12 (+0.63), IWB: 118.57 (+1.11), SDS: 20.56 (-0.37), MGC: 72.06 (+0.58), SPHB: 35.01 (+0.36), IWL: 47.90 (+0.38), PSQ: 56.05 (-0.41), ROLA: 160.00 (unch), ZLRG: 26.35 (+0.11), NY: 86.10 (+0.08), TQQQ: 112.21 (+2.28), SBUS: 25.46 (+0.21), UPRO: 141.67 (+3.65), FMK: 27.49 (+0.33), EPS: 73.15 (+0.64), OEF: 92.78 (+0.84), DIA: 180.96 (+1.30), XLG: 143.07 (-0.13), QID: 34.94 (-0.49), SFLA: 159.00 (-21.57), CFA: 37.52 (+0.54), SH: 21.08 (-0.19), SSO: 134.65 (+2.34), QLD: 150.97 (+2.05), BXUC: 299.86 (unch), VOO: 193.85 (+1.74), PXLC: 40.77 (+0.15), QQQ: 108.53 (+0.45), ONEK: 99.56 (+0.39), FWDD: 44.49 (+0.48), BXUB: 201.74 (unch), VV: 97.40 (+0.88), EQL: 57.89 (+0.55), UDOW: 148.21 (+3.86), EWRI: 52.55 (+0.27), JKD: 124.23 (+1.12)
TD Ameritrade: Investor Movement Index falls to two-year low
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Mar 09, 11:48AM CDT
FEX: 47.29 (+0.43), SCHX: 50.69 (+0.43), ZLRG: 26.35 (+0.11), EEH: 15.64 (+0.18), ERW: 54.77 (+0.55), SYE: 58.56 (unch), FWDD: 44.49 (+0.48), EQL: 57.89 (+0.55), VV: 97.40 (+0.88), IWL: 47.90 (+0.38), SBUS: 25.46 (+0.21), JKD: 124.23 (+1.12)
Nasdaq 5,000 Is Different This Time... But Not In A Good Way!
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Wed Mar 04, 8:33AM CST
The robo-traders and Wall Street punters were busy painting the tape yesterday, and did bump the Nasdaq composite across the magic 5,000 threshold for the first time since March 2000. But even as Wall Street urged home-gamers to “return with us...
HACK: 28.55 (-0.13), ROM: 161.96 (+2.30), SPLV: 38.46 (+0.44), TLL: 51.87 (-1.67), SPUU: 147.23 (+2.56), QTEC: 44.99 (+0.46), SDOW: 18.67 (-0.54), SPLX: 32.11 (+0.17), CFO: 37.64 (+0.32), SPY: 210.41 (+0.91), TECL: 150.33 (+2.54), EEH: 15.64 (+0.18), SQQQ: 24.71 (-0.55), LGLV: 74.32 (-0.41), SOXS: 10.42 (-0.49), XTL: 60.42 (+0.24), RWL: 41.97 (+0.39), SYE: 58.56 (unch), SOXL: 159.62 (+6.71), REW: 50.64 (-0.80), QQEW: 45.05 (+0.40), SOXX: 99.00 (+1.38), IVV: 212.85 (+1.86), TECS: 9.91 (-0.16), PSCT: 53.77 (+0.41), IWB: 118.57 (+1.11), MGC: 72.06 (+0.58), IWL: 47.90 (+0.38), PXQ: 37.19 (unch), ROLA: 160.00 (unch), ZLRG: 26.35 (+0.11), NY: 86.10 (+0.08), XSW: 100.50 (+0.73), TQQQ: 112.21 (+2.28), UPRO: 141.67 (+3.65), FMK: 27.49 (+0.33), OEF: 92.78 (+0.84), XLK: 42.54 (+0.10), XLG: 143.07 (-0.13), XSD: 91.12 (+1.02), SFLA: 159.00 (-21.57), CFA: 37.52 (+0.54), IGM: 106.03 (+0.92), SSO: 134.65 (+2.34), RYT: 94.16 (+0.66), SSG: 45.32 (-2.15), QLD: 150.97 (+2.05), BXUC: 299.86 (unch), IGV: 98.14 (+0.44), PXLC: 40.77 (+0.15), USD: 95.68 (+3.31), BXUB: 201.74 (unch), FWDD: 44.49 (+0.48), MTK: 103.47 (+0.66), VV: 97.40 (+0.88), IGN: 38.56 (+0.23), UDOW: 148.21 (+3.86), FEX: 47.29 (+0.43), SPHQ: 23.76 (+0.14), EQAL: 25.91 (+0.17), DOG: 22.65 (-0.21), PBS: 27.23 (+0.14), SPXU: 34.08 (-0.91), SPXS: 18.42 (-0.48), FXL: 36.80 (+0.33), PRF: 92.59 (+0.53), ERW: 54.77 (+0.55), DXD: 20.49 (-0.39), QQXT: 42.42 (+0.36), SPXL: 93.79 (+2.44), SCHX: 50.69 (+0.43), RSP: 82.15 (+0.47), FDN: 66.14 (+0.14), SMH: 57.74 (+0.90), FCOM: 27.53 (+0.07), VONE: 97.85 (+0.82), DDM: 139.89 (+2.56), FTEC: 32.82 (+0.06), QQQE: 67.12 (+0.63), PSJ: 42.13 (+0.21), PSI: 28.21 (+0.45), SDS: 20.56 (-0.37), SPHB: 35.01 (+0.36), PSQ: 56.05 (-0.41), SBUS: 25.46 (+0.21), PTF: 42.31 (+0.35), IYZ: 31.26 (+0.37), EPS: 73.15 (+0.64), DIA: 180.96 (+1.30), TDIV: 27.73 (+0.27), QID: 34.94 (-0.49), IYW: 107.91 (+0.62), SH: 21.08 (-0.19), LTL: 99.02 (+2.02), VOO: 193.85 (+1.74), QQQ: 108.53 (+0.45), ONEK: 99.56 (+0.39), VOX: 88.43 (+0.65), EQL: 57.89 (+0.55), VGT: 108.77 (+0.62), JKD: 124.23 (+1.12), EWRI: 52.55 (+0.27)
Longtime U.S.stock bull heads for the exit
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 18, 12:06PM CST
FEX: 47.29 (+0.43), VTV: 85.19 (+0.74), ZLRG: 26.35 (+0.11), SFK: 20.51 (-1.28), SYV: 56.56 (unch), IWY: 53.15 (+0.49), IWX: 44.25 (+0.50), SBUS: 25.46 (+0.21), SCHG: 55.11 (+0.42), EEH: 15.64 (+0.18), FTC: 49.63 (+0.35), ERW: 54.77 (+0.55), PWB: 31.41 (+0.33), SYG: 59.72 (unch), SCHV: 44.24 (+0.43), IELG: 32.76 (+0.29), PWV: 31.36 (+0.18), SCHX: 50.69 (+0.43), SYE: 58.56 (unch), RWG: 48.18 (+1.35), GVT: 45.55 (unch), EZY: 67.90 (+0.90), VUG: 110.43 (+0.93), FWDD: 44.49 (+0.48), JKE: 121.98 (+1.00), VV: 97.40 (+0.88), EQL: 57.89 (+0.55), JKF: 85.38 (+0.81), IWL: 47.90 (+0.38), JKD: 124.23 (+1.12)
Where have the bears gone?
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Thu Feb 12, 8:19AM CST
FEX: 47.29 (+0.43), SCHX: 50.69 (+0.43), ZLRG: 26.35 (+0.11), EEH: 15.64 (+0.18), ERW: 54.77 (+0.55), SYE: 58.56 (unch), FWDD: 44.49 (+0.48), EQL: 57.89 (+0.55), VV: 97.40 (+0.88), IWL: 47.90 (+0.38), SBUS: 25.46 (+0.21), JKD: 124.23 (+1.12)
Betting With Buffett: 7 Lean Years Later
CFA Institute Contributors - Seeking Alpha - Thu Feb 12, 7:45AM CST
By Ted Seides, CFA Just as stock picks sometimes head in the wrong direction upon purchase and call into question whether a thesis is early or wrong, so too has hedge fund underperformance over the last seven years raised the question of whether...
SPLV: 38.46 (+0.44), VSPY: 60.22 (+0.55), RALS: 40.63 (+0.17), SPUU: 147.23 (+2.56), SDOW: 18.67 (-0.54), SPLX: 32.11 (+0.17), TRSK: 28.69 (+0.23), CFO: 37.64 (+0.32), SPY: 210.41 (+0.91), EEH: 15.64 (+0.18), SQQQ: 24.71 (-0.55), LGLV: 74.32 (-0.41), RWL: 41.97 (+0.39), CSLS: 26.33 (-0.44), SYE: 58.56 (unch), LALT: 23.16 (-0.05), QQEW: 45.05 (+0.40), IVV: 212.85 (+1.86), IWB: 118.57 (+1.11), MGC: 72.06 (+0.58), IBLN: 26.31 (+0.23), IWL: 47.90 (+0.38), ROLA: 160.00 (unch), ZLRG: 26.35 (+0.11), NY: 86.10 (+0.08), ALTS: 40.74 (+0.41), QMN: 25.69 (+0.12), TQQQ: 112.21 (+2.28), UPRO: 141.67 (+3.65), FMK: 27.49 (+0.33), VQTS: 24.80 (+0.23), OEF: 92.78 (+0.84), MULT: 23.30 (-0.23), MCRO: 25.56 (+0.10), BARL: 19.19 (unch), QEH: 28.33 (+0.11), SIZ: 24.64 (unch), XLG: 143.07 (-0.13), SFLA: 159.00 (-21.57), CFA: 37.52 (+0.54), SSO: 134.65 (+2.34), VIXH: 26.14 (+0.41), GURU: 26.73 (+0.25), GURX: 13.78 (+0.04), QLD: 150.97 (+2.05), BXUC: 299.86 (unch), PXLC: 40.77 (+0.15), BXUB: 201.74 (unch), FWDD: 44.49 (+0.48), VV: 97.40 (+0.88), UDOW: 148.21 (+3.86), GURI: 14.58 (-0.13), FEX: 47.29 (+0.43), DIVA: 24.96 (+0.16), SPXH: 30.53 (+0.32), SPHQ: 23.76 (+0.14), EQAL: 25.91 (+0.17), DOG: 22.65 (-0.21), SPXU: 34.08 (-0.91), SPGH: 55.14 (+1.19), SPXS: 18.42 (-0.48), PRF: 92.59 (+0.53), ERW: 54.77 (+0.55), DXD: 20.49 (-0.39), ALFA: 45.91 (+0.33), QQXT: 42.42 (+0.36), AGLS: 20.33 (-0.19), CSM: 102.67 (+0.97), HDG: 43.35 (+0.07), SPXL: 93.79 (+2.44), CHEP: 25.24 (unch), PHDG: 27.32 (+0.10), TNDQ: 40.39 (+0.33), SCHX: 50.69 (+0.43), RSP: 82.15 (+0.47), FTLS: 32.89 (+0.29), VALX: 26.66 (+0.31), VONE: 97.85 (+0.82), BTAL: 20.25 (unch), QQQE: 67.12 (+0.63), DDM: 139.89 (+2.56), SDS: 20.56 (-0.37), SPHB: 35.01 (+0.36), VQT: 151.20 (+1.04), PSQ: 56.05 (-0.41), TCHI: 26.54 (unch), SBUS: 25.46 (+0.21), EPS: 73.15 (+0.64), QAI: 30.15 (+0.15), DIA: 180.96 (+1.30), QID: 34.94 (-0.49), SH: 21.08 (-0.19), VOO: 193.85 (+1.74), TRND: 40.58 (+0.28), QQQ: 108.53 (+0.45), ONEK: 99.56 (+0.39), TRNM: 36.52 (+0.25), EQL: 57.89 (+0.55), CSMN: 18.91 (+0.14), JKD: 124.23 (+1.12), EWRI: 52.55 (+0.27)
Complacency? U.S. investors stick with U.S. stocks
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 11, 1:46PM CST
FEX: 47.29 (+0.43), RLY: 26.56 (+0.40), SCHX: 50.69 (+0.43), ZLRG: 26.35 (+0.11), SYE: 58.56 (unch), GAL: 36.04 (+0.34), EPRO: 31.24 (+0.52), SBUS: 25.46 (+0.21), AOR: 41.25 (+0.36), EEH: 15.64 (+0.18), ERW: 54.77 (+0.55), FWDD: 44.49 (+0.48), GIVE: 64.29 (-0.06), GAA: 25.15 (+0.25), VV: 97.40 (+0.88), EQL: 57.89 (+0.55), IWL: 47.90 (+0.38), DBIZ: 25.86 (+0.45), MATH: 31.52 (+0.43), GTAA: 25.59 (+0.13), JKD: 124.23 (+1.12)
Investors bet bond bull market isn't over
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Feb 09, 4:08PM CST
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Here We Go Again: The Robo Machines Are Raging
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 04, 11:41AM CST
Here we go again. The robo machines have been raging for the past two days, and by mid-afternoon we were hovering around 2045 on the S&P 500. Since that’s only 2.3% below the all-time high reached at the end of December,...
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January's Market Volatility: Blip Or Omen?
Mohamed El-Erian - Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 04, 11:16AM CST
This story originally appeared on Bloomberg View. January was an unusual and exciting month for financial markets. Volatility returned to the equity markets . To use a rather unsophisticated measure, almost three-quarters of the trading days...
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Today's 'Dip' Is A Warning---Get Out Of The Casino!
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Wed Jan 28, 1:28PM CST
Shortly after today’s open, the S&P 500 was down nearly 2% and off its recent all-time high by 3.5%. But soon the robo-machines and day traders were buying the “dip” having apparently once again gotten the...
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It's Earnings Season---So Here Come The Crooks, Led By Alcoa
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Wed Jan 14, 9:00AM CST
Once upon a time Alcoa (NYSE: AA ) was a great industrial powerhouse and innovator. Now it is a stumbling, pitiful giant that is a veritable wealth destroyer. And its dismal plight, which is thoroughly obfuscated by a Wall Street pleasing earnings...
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My Investment Worries: The Dollar, Large-Cap Stocks, Treasuries And ETFs
CFA Institute Contributors - Seeking Alpha - Thu Jan 08, 4:12PM CST
By A. Michael Lipper, CFA Essentially, investment risk is not a number. The price of risk failure is the forgoing of important funding plans. In that light, your risk is not the same as my risk - not only because we have different financial and...
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Tepper: 2015 shaping up like 1999
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Tue Dec 23, 10:37AM CST
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Patience Is A Virtue
Carbide Capital Inc. - Seeking Alpha - Thu Mar 19, 3:19PM CDT
In a high tech world where we demand everything instantaneously, sometimes it's good to just sit back and be patient. The topic of whether the FED would remove the word "patient" and set the stage for an interest rate hike in June or September has...
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Duck This Dip- There's More Crazy Stuff Coming
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Tue Mar 17, 1:00PM CDT
(Originally posted March 15) That didn’t take long! Yesterday’s rip was supposed to have turned the market back up. Its close at well above the “crucial” 2060 chart point on the S&P 500 cash index meant...
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BAML survey: Fund managers move out of U.S. stocks
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Tue Mar 17, 11:21AM CDT
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The Fed Can't Slow Down, And That's Good For Stocks
Joe Leider - Seeking Alpha - Fri Mar 13, 10:08AM CDT
For those of you who missed the 1990s, the movie ' Speed' inexplicably became a box office hit. The villain, played by Dennis Hopper, attaches a bomb to a bus that will explode if it goes under 50 mph. What follows is a trail of destruction through...
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The Great Immoderation: How The Fed Is Sowing The Next Recession
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Thu Mar 12, 2:51PM CDT
In February 2004 Ben Bernanke famously declared the business cycle had been tamed and took a bow in behalf of enlightened monetary management, claiming it was the principal source of this beneficent development. Exactly 55 months later, of course, he...
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Merger Monday In The Casino: Why SPG's Paying 56X For Macerich's Going Nowhere Malls
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Wed Mar 11, 8:03AM CDT
Now comes a prime example of central bank financial repression at work. It’s downright ugly and crystalizes how the Fed and other central banks are generating massive mis-allocations of capital and staggering windfall gains to Wall Street...
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Six Years Of Bull Market Bull
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Tue Mar 10, 7:25AM CDT
Never has there been a more artificial—-indeed, phony—–gain in the stock market than the 215% eruption orchestrated by the Fed since the post-crisis bottom six years ago today. And the operative word is “orchestrated”...
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TD Ameritrade: Investor Movement Index falls to two-year low
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Mar 09, 11:48AM CDT
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Nasdaq 5,000 Is Different This Time... But Not In A Good Way!
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Wed Mar 04, 8:33AM CST
The robo-traders and Wall Street punters were busy painting the tape yesterday, and did bump the Nasdaq composite across the magic 5,000 threshold for the first time since March 2000. But even as Wall Street urged home-gamers to “return with us...
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Longtime U.S.stock bull heads for the exit
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 18, 12:06PM CST
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Where have the bears gone?
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Thu Feb 12, 8:19AM CST
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Betting With Buffett: 7 Lean Years Later
CFA Institute Contributors - Seeking Alpha - Thu Feb 12, 7:45AM CST
By Ted Seides, CFA Just as stock picks sometimes head in the wrong direction upon purchase and call into question whether a thesis is early or wrong, so too has hedge fund underperformance over the last seven years raised the question of whether...
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Complacency? U.S. investors stick with U.S. stocks
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 11, 1:46PM CST
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Investors bet bond bull market isn't over
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Feb 09, 4:08PM CST
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Here We Go Again: The Robo Machines Are Raging
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 04, 11:41AM CST
Here we go again. The robo machines have been raging for the past two days, and by mid-afternoon we were hovering around 2045 on the S&P 500. Since that’s only 2.3% below the all-time high reached at the end of December,...
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January's Market Volatility: Blip Or Omen?
Mohamed El-Erian - Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 04, 11:16AM CST
This story originally appeared on Bloomberg View. January was an unusual and exciting month for financial markets. Volatility returned to the equity markets . To use a rather unsophisticated measure, almost three-quarters of the trading days...
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Today's 'Dip' Is A Warning---Get Out Of The Casino!
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Wed Jan 28, 1:28PM CST
Shortly after today’s open, the S&P 500 was down nearly 2% and off its recent all-time high by 3.5%. But soon the robo-machines and day traders were buying the “dip” having apparently once again gotten the...
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It's Earnings Season---So Here Come The Crooks, Led By Alcoa
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Wed Jan 14, 9:00AM CST
Once upon a time Alcoa (NYSE: AA ) was a great industrial powerhouse and innovator. Now it is a stumbling, pitiful giant that is a veritable wealth destroyer. And its dismal plight, which is thoroughly obfuscated by a Wall Street pleasing earnings...
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My Investment Worries: The Dollar, Large-Cap Stocks, Treasuries And ETFs
CFA Institute Contributors - Seeking Alpha - Thu Jan 08, 4:12PM CST
By A. Michael Lipper, CFA Essentially, investment risk is not a number. The price of risk failure is the forgoing of important funding plans. In that light, your risk is not the same as my risk - not only because we have different financial and...
FEX: 47.29 (+0.43), SCHX: 50.69 (+0.43), SPY: 210.41 (+0.91), TAPR: 29.23 (-0.27), VV: 97.40 (+0.88), UDN: 21.61 (+0.26), UUP: 25.82 (-0.35), GOVT: 25.50 (+0.04), PLW: 33.61 (+0.10)
Tepper: 2015 shaping up like 1999
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Tue Dec 23, 10:37AM CST
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