132% Annualized Return and the Next Great Market Call

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  “There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.” – George Washington Most investors spend time thinking about, and conducting research on, similar investment environments historically as a gauge to understand what might happen in the current environment.  We’ve learned from experience that it matters, which is

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We’ve seen this before in Tech – What happens next?

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  “Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?” – Andy Warhol Tech stocks have been beaten up quite a bit over the past couple of weeks.  The Nasdaq 100 Tech Index (NDXT) is down 7% since April 1st.  The Fed continues to taper, with the end of QE in sight,

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A Paradigm Shift and a Currency Pair

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  “History, with all her volumes vast, hath but one page” – George Gordon Byron Preamble:  If you take 5 minutes to read through how EidoSearch is a game changing solution for every investor, there’s a great trade idea at the end.  Or, you can just skip down to the idea and take our word

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Trading Places and the FTSE 250

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“Be Fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful” – Warren Buffet   Randolph Duke: Exactly why do you think the price of pork bellies is going to keep going down, William? Billy Ray Valentine: Okay, pork belly prices have been dropping all morning, which means that everybody is waiting for it

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Cause, Effect and Ethanol prices

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  “Cause and effect are two sides of one fact” – Ralph Waldo Emerson            Ethanol prices are spiking.  The continuous contract price is up 62% since January 27th and at its highest level since November 2011.  In environments like this, investors look for the linkages between Ethanol and the potential

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The power of Linkages: Cotton prices, Nike and V.F. Corp

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“What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history” – Warren Buffett Last October 21st we took a look at the linkage between Crude Oil prices, which had dropped 10% over the previous 6 weeks, and the trading in Airline stocks.  We wondered what happened to Airline stocks when Oil prices were

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A Classic Pairs Trade

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  “Wise men say, and not without reason, that whoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.” – Machiavelli In recent Weekly Market Calls, we’ve talked about the power of objectively identifying the most similar historical instances of current market or price trends to have an objective gauge for the range of forward

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A Valuable Signal in the Short and Long term for Penn West

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  “Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others” – John Maynard Keynes Every day, investors take positions in securities that they are convinced will go up, while at the same time there are investors taking positions in the same securities with every expectation that the price will go down.  Some investments are focused in

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