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The Hackensack: The limits of un-hedged, long-only investing in a secular bear market
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Saturday, January 16, 2010. The limits of un-hedged, long-only investing in a secular bear market. In the comment thread of a previous post ( "Welcome to another lost decade". Commenter Brad Castro wrote,. Dividend growth investing (in high quality companies), I argue, is immensely superior to simple growth investing, and especially so during secular bear markets. I offered this response in the comment thread,. But a chart is worth a thousand words:. January 16, 2010 at 6:53 PM. I think if Mr. Market...
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The Hackensack: January 2010
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010. New blogs. Really, this time. Yeah, I can't believe it either. The day has finally arrived. We're moving on up to Wordpress. For occasional posts about specific securities, with a focus on the tiny, obscure stocks I've blogged about here, see Shadow Stocks. No rush to look there right now though, as I've been too busy for the last several hours trying to figure out Wordpress to think much about any specific securities. For pretty much everything else, see Steam Catapult. Earlie...
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The Hackensack: Scene from the real estate bust
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Friday, January 15, 2010. Scene from the real estate bust. I had a late breakfast today with my sister at the place above, which is located in a working class town nearby. $11.50 for two orders of scrambled eggs with diced tomatoes and onion, one order of Spanish sausage, a cheese-filled pastry, and two cafés con leche. Nearby, there were a couple of pairs of day laborers lingering, waiting for work. At the height of the real estate bubble, there would be dozens. Labels: The real estate bust. On the othe...
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The Hackensack: Alloy Steel's 10-K
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009. Alloy Steel International ( AYSI.OB. Today I haven't had a chance to go over it in detail yet, but it looks like the big BHP deal that was announced during the AYSI's Q4 contributed less to earnings that quarter than expected. If my arithmetic is correct (the company didn't break out the Q4 numbers in its annual), Q4 earnings came in at 1.86 cents, which is well below my guess. The 10-K does note that,. The outpost in Indonesia will start as a sales office, which is schedule...
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The Hackensack: Introducing Portfolio Armor
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Thursday, January 21, 2010. A site that enables investors to insure their stock and ETF investments (including ETFs that track indexes such as the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average) against market downturns as well as company- and sector-specific risk with put options. You enter your stock and ETF holdings, and the maximum downside risk you are willing to accept for each holding. Then, using its proprietary algorithm. This expensive insurance hurts performance if the underlying shares:. Invest...
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The Hackensack: Updates on the out-of-the-money put basket
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010. Updates on the out-of-the-money put basket. I've been a little swamped today putting the finishing touches on Portfolio Armor, but here are a few quick updates on my put basket. Recall that in a post at the end of last year ( "New short position: UAUA". With the Nasdaq near a 14-month high, and the VIX. Near a 14-month low, I have been building a basket of out-of-the-market puts on financially-distressed stocks drawn from Short Screen. Virgin Media, another company. New blogs...
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The Hackensack: Hitler on the GOP victory in Massachusetts
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010. Hitler on the GOP victory in Massachusetts. Parodies never get old. This is the funniest yet. BTW, I caught the last hour or so of Downfall on satellite a few years ago. It was quite good. Looks like. Bruno Ganz won the German equivalent of a best actor Oscar for his turn as Hitler. Deservedly so. Have you never seen the whole movie? January 20, 2010 at 11:10 PM. January 20, 2010 at 11:37 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Algorithmic hedging tool for stocks and ETFs.
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The Hackensack: Subway-riding dogs
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010. Last weekend's Financial Times. Featured an article by Susanne Sternthal, "A wolf in dog's clothing". The photo above accompanied the article). I found this to be the most interesting part:. I wonder if Kirstin Bakis. Read Sternthal's article and was inspired. Labels: Lives of the Monster Dogs. Funny I ran across that article, too, and was planning to post on it. Really interesting stuff. January 20, 2010 at 12:16 AM. January 20, 2010 at 1:59 AM. Just happened to read this arti...
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The Hackensack: A couple of updates
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Saturday, January 16, 2010. A couple of updates. There are still some good people in the investment industry, and I was fortunate to speak with a few real gentlemen this week: Bill Singer of RRBD Law. Marc Mayor of Inside ALPHA. And Mark Sullivan of First Trust. All offered some excellent suggestions, some of which I will be implementing soon. Herewith, a couple of updates:. In the distress zone. If I had more time and patience, I'd set these blogs up myself. I may end up doing that. On the rise of China.
