Saturday, October 10, 2009

Weekend Reading: Markets and More - Volume One

* Very important issue: When will the Fed begin its exit from monetary ease?

* Thanks to a sharp reader for this article on the costs of a weak dollar policy;

* A look at gold volatility and many more worthwhile perspectives;

* Killing the economic goose with debt;

* Changing geopolitics of natural gas;

* Europe as the loser in the financial crisis?

* Ten best dividend stocks;

* Thoughts on FHA as a sub-prime lender;

* Russia's stock market on the rise;

* Looking under the hood of bond ETFs;

* ETFs that can benefit from U.S. push into emerging markets;

* Rundown of financial news;

* The high cost of high school dropout.
.

2 comments:

JimRI said...

Dr. Brett,

The puzzle for me is why the market keeps going up on low volume and without much institutional participation. I see some speculation and some observations from historical parallels but my take is that current participants are just ignoring that fact - ie. play the market you have not the one you think should be. Are the retail investors doing this? Did the liquidity generating trading programs stop? Any thoughts?

Soberba Insônia said...

Basic lesson: forget the reasons of the market, just follow it using ideal risk management according to your trading profile.

If there´s a reverse to come, it will be easy to indentify it, once the market had no real bearish interference so far (and i´m keeping it simple).