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Every once in awhile an investment book comes along which forces me to reexamine my core assumptions and face the fact that one or more them are quite possibly…wrong. This has been one of those books.
While very large swaths of this book may not come as a surprise to some readers (the impending demise of the USD as reserve currency, the looming debt crisis, the bond bubble bursting and a multi-year commodities boom in the offing with gold leading the charge), it made me look at secular bear markets with a new perspective that is forcing me to seriously rethink my game plan.…
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In the early 2000’s Mark M. Rostenko seemingly had it all: nearly 20 years trading experience in the rough-n-tumble world of Chicago commodities exchange, and a rapidly growing financial advisory newsletter called The Sovereign Strategist. He was making extremely prescient calls about various overall markets and then zeroing in on individual trades with laser-like precision. …
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What a difference a month can make!
So is the title of the latest Patient Capital newsletter to shareholders, observing that September 2010 brought the highest U.S equity returns in a staggering seven decades! But this is Patient Capital, not Kudlow and Cramer. The core message of this installment is as follows.…
Read MoreYou see a lot of people going to seminars, doing research and gearing up to “become their own boss” by trying to do things totally outside of their circle of competence. Bricklayers trying to daytrade. Bank tellers trying to flip houses. Dental assistants setting out to become professional bloggers, the list goes on.…
Read MoreIf you’ve been following Mike Swanson for any length of time, if you’re a member of his WallStreetWindow community or have read any of his ebooks on the subject of trading, then not a lot in this book will come as a surprise to you. Having said that and being all of the above myself I found the book to be a good, quick read and I still took some fresh insights away from it.…
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