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Sunday, October 12
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A link to some of the last articles Christopher Byron wrote at The New York Observer (where the archived articles are free). He now writes for the New York Post (where the archived articles are not free).

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Looked through the FT-900 (U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services) to see if the Chinese are still exporting things to the US. The answer is yes. ;-)

Imports from China

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Read the (very amusing) results from the Technical Analysis Challenge recently conducted by Burns Statistics.

"We report on a study of the ability of analysts to distinguish an actual price series of an equity from random alternatives. Virtually all of the statistical tests on the results support the hypothesis that no skill was exhibited in selecting the correct response. Many of the analysts were extremely over-confident about their ability to select correct answers."

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Saturday, October 11
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A quick look at the year-to-date returns of various Bear Funds:

  • Prudent Bear: -6.68%
  • Rydex Ursa: -14.46%
  • ProFunds Bear: -15.09%
  • Potomac Dow 30 Short: -15.18%
  • Potomac US Short: -15.39%
  • Leuthold Grizzly Short: -20.76%
  • ProFunds Short Small Cap: -24.66%
  • Potomac Small Cap Short: -25.96%
  • Rydex Arktos: -28.38%
  • ProFunds Short OTC: -28.64%
  • ProFunds UltraBear: -28.91%
  • Rydex Dynamic Tempest: -28.93%
  • Potomac OTC Short: -30.28%
  • ProFunds UltraShort OTC: -51.34%
  • Rydex Dynamic Venture: -51.64%

Yahoo! Quotes

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Crude Oil futures touched the $32.50 level yesterday... looks to me like it's on its third push up off the September lows.

Crude Oil

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A pair of very sweet trades in today's Trading for Dummies Lesson, one short one long.




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