From the category archives:

stock index

  • March 2009 Stock Market: What Could Go Wrong?

    The stock market has been posting gains the past few days. After two very tough months to start 2009, what could go wrong? Plenty, especially if you are focused on just the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

  • Auditors project deeper deficits for Obama budget

    Don't get hung up on the Dow Jones. The Dow Jones may not be a "relevant" yardstick for you to use. After all, it's only 30 stocks…and you might not own ANY of them.

  • Jump Back into Stocks Immediately?

    Take a walk with me down Memory Lane:
    1973: S&P down over 17%  (ouch)
    1974: S&P down over 29%. (ouch again)
    The bottom for the S&P was reached in October 1974. (…)

  • Exxon: Quarterly earnings and stock performance

    Exxon reported nearly $12 billion in profits for the previous quarter recently. $12 billion! More net profits in one quarter, than ever recorded in the history of mankind.
    And what did the stock do? (…)

  • How can they keep missing this?

    Frequent readers have seen earlier posts where I have discussed option expiration week and the volatility that comes with it.  But there was scant mention of option expiration at all this week.  Options expired on Friday and the Dow Jones dropped 220 points. (…)

  • How Smart is The Crowd?

    Do you remember the television program, "Who wants to be a Millionaire"?The show was actually featured in a terrific book "The Wisdom of Crowds" by James Suriowiecki. (…)

  • Dow below 12,000

    The Dow Jones industrial average dropped below 12,000 today, March 7. In technical terms, this is a significant move. (…)

  • Am I the Only One Losing?

    In my previous message, I talked about how we moved to defense
    twice in 2004, but it seemed the market didn't go down either time.
    If the markets weren't going down, why get defensive? (…)