In the post Making The Simplest Investing Rule Even More Simple, I explained a rule for monitoring the S&P 500 weekly moving averages to spot buy and sell signals for long term investors. The rule comes from Karl Denninger at Market Ticker. When the 20 WMA passes the 50 WMA by 1%, you buy into [...]
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Making The Simplest Investing Rule Even More Simple
Last April, I highlighted Karl Denninger’s amazingly simple rule for ordinary long term investors. Using his rule, long term investors would have sold their stocks and moved to fixed income back in January 2008 when the S & P 500 was at 1350. From The Simplest Investing Rule: His rule which he learned from his [...]
Anatomy of a Bad Trade
Occasionally I serve up a post on my investing successes. Now let me tell you about the worst trade I ever made and the lessons I learned. On January 3, 2008, on the post My Drudge Report Oil Short Investment Tip, I wrote: I’ve noticed over the past few years that whenever a barrel of [...]
Not a Certified Financial Planner
Since I have quite a few posts on investing, I thought it was appropriate that I add a disclaimer. I am not a Certified Financial Planner. I’m just a regular Joe with an interest in economics. Although I have a Finance degree from the diploma mill known as The Ohio State University, everything that I [...]
Investing 101 – The Biggest Lesson
This post is a follow-up to Investing 101 – Before You Invest. The biggest lesson I’ve learned in the last few years is what I call the Baby Boomer Lie. I’ve covered this on other posts, so forgive me for repeating it. Baby Boomers were fortunate enough to enter their high income years early in [...]
