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ETF Talk: Learning to Love Leverage

If you want to maximize the return from making a wise investment in an exchange-traded fund, then you soon may love the leveraged funds that Direxion has rolled out. Direxion launched eight ETFs during November 2008 that are leveraged to help both bullish and bearish investors triple the daily performance of the four indexes that […]

Tellerian Wisdom

"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective." –Edward Teller Like so many great scientists, the wisdom of Edward Teller is both underappreciated and less well-known than it should be. […]

Is the Rally Over?

Back in March, at the very beginning of what became a huge run higher for stocks, I was skeptical that the market could mount a sustainable rally. As the months went by, I remained skeptical; however, the market proved that it could indeed make a protracted move higher that lasted for several months. Now the […]

ETF Talk: Is It Time for the Nuclear Option?

For 30 years, no shovelful of soil was turned to construct a nuclear plant in the United States until 2006, when groundbreaking occurred for the National Enrichment facility in New Mexico. With elected officials calling to reduce U.S. dependence on carbon-based fuel, interest in nuclear power could reignite. Since President Obama has declared that nuclear […]

The Wisdom of Aerials

Aerials, in the sky When you lose small mind You free your life Aerials, so up high When you free your eyes Eternal prize –System of a Down, "Aerials" The rock band System of a Down hit on an important bit of wisdom in the group’s song, "Aerials." You see, in order to be a […]

Dead Language Wisdom

Save for today’s market move, the recent action in equities has been lower. The bout of selling we’ve seen in stocks has taken the major averages down a notch, and investors now find themselves sifting through a market in correction mode. As I’ve said several times during the past few weeks, a correction off of the nearly 25% rise in stocks since early March shouldn’t come as any surprise.

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ETF Talk: Profiting from PIMCO

Save for today’s market move, the recent action in equities has been lower. The bout of selling we’ve seen in stocks has taken the major averages down a notch, and investors now find themselves sifting through a market in correction mode. As I’ve said several times during the past few weeks, a correction off of the nearly 25% rise in stocks since early March shouldn’t come as any surprise. […]

What is an ETF?

This week, we saw the first signs of a pullback in the equity markets. Stocks fell hard on Monday, and again on Tuesday. Now, if you’re a bull, you shouldn’t be… […]

It’s Just a Theory — Yeah, Right

This week, we saw the first signs of a pullback in the equity markets. Stocks fell hard on Monday, and again on Tuesday. Now, if you’re a bull, you shouldn’t be…

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ETF Talk: Sunny Side Up

The big market-moving news this week happened today as the government conducted its auction of 10-year Treasury notes. As soon as the results of the weak auction were revealed… […]