Wednesday, December 3, 2008 @ 12:22 AM
And The Award Goes to …
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Jordan, not Jimmy, was on CNBC on Monday morning before the open. It wasn’t what he said, but how he said it. Wins the award for the number of market cliches that can be packed into one interview. Hands down.
- Don’t Fight the Fed [WATCH VIDEO]
The huge amount of market intervention from the Federal Reserve and other central banks will ultimately turn the market around, Jordan Kimmel from The Magnet Investment Group told CNBC Monday.
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Trading Ideas, Market Barometers, Correlation & Volatility
- Using The Daily Workbook
- Q&A: Stock Picking and Self-Attribution Bias
- A Conversation with Charles Kirk
- Barometers: What The Market Says
- The Beauty Contest Stock Scan
- Relative Momentum and Strength Are Key
- How to Read the RMI Histogram
- Putting It Together
- The Correlation Heat Map
- Identifying Volatility Clusters
- VIX and The Rules of Investing
Investor Sentiment
- 50 Ways to Lose Your Money
- The Philosophy of Tops
- The Investor Sentiment Cycle, Part I
- The Investor Sentiment Cycle, Part II
- Where We Are In The Cycle
- Where We Are In The Cycle, Part II
- Sentiment Lesson from Corn & Soybeans
- Financial Economics Lecture 18: Behavioural Finance
Economic Fundamentals
- The World According to Brock (Introduction)
- The World According to Brock I
- The World According to Brock II
- The World According to Brock III
- The World According to Brock IV
- Bernanke Takes Aim At Counterknowledge
Fundamentals of Trading
- Teresa’s Rules of Market Survival
- Evaluating Buy and Sell Signals
- Principles of Profitable Trading
- Glossary of Trade Setups
- Options: Bull Call and Bear Put Spreads
- Q&A: Trading with Call and Put Spreads
- How To Think Diabolically
- Trade Like a Commando, Part I
- Thoughts on Position Sizing
- Own The Zone: Chapter One
- Own The Zone: Chapter Two
- Own The Zone: Chapter Three
- Own The Zone: Chapter Four
- Own The Zone: Chapter Five
- Own The Zone: Chapter Six
- Own The Zone: Chapter Seven
- Stops Cannot Be Eyeballed
- Thoughts on the Kase Dev-stop
- Engineering Better Bollinger Bands
- Expectancy, Performance and The “R” Word
- Q&A: Are Moving Averages Useful?
- Q&A: Interpretation of Moving Averages
Investment Portfolios
- Q&A: Where Do I Start?
- Q&A: Vanguard and Fidelity Equivalents
- Building Your Portfolio: Part I
- Building Your Portfolio: Part II
- Building Your Portfolio: Part III
- Building Your Portfolio: Part IV
- Building Your Portfolio: Part V
- Building Your Portfolio: Part VI
- Building Your Portfolio: Part VII
- Building Your Portfolio: Part VIII
- Building Your Portfolio: Part IX
- Should You Trade Your Investment Portfolio? I
- Should You Trade Your Investment Portfolio? II
- Should You Trade Your Investment Portfolio? III
- Should You Trade Your Investment Portfolio? IV
- Risk Management for Civilians (HEDGING)
- The Last Word on Hedging with ETFs (HEDGING)
- Hedge Ratios for Inverse ETFs are Here (HEDGING)
- Q&A: Hedging, a Step by Step Guide (HEDGING)
- Moving Averages for Portfolio Timing
- Alpha vs. Beta for Your Portfolio
- Time To Get Back Into the Market? Part 1
- Time To Get Back Into the Market? Part 2
- Time To Get Back Into the Market? Part 3
- Time To Get Back Into the Market? Part 4
- A Conversation with David Fry
Recommended Reading
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- The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
- The Nature of Risk
- Winning The Mental Game on Wall Street
- Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
- A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market
- How to Lie with Statistics
- Chance
- Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction
- The Winner's Curse
- Behavioral Finance & Decision Theory
- New Market Wizards (Eckhardt Chapter)
- Pioneering Portfolio Management
- Unconventional Success
- A Brief History of Economic Genius
- General Economic History
- The Age of Turbulence
- In an Uncertain World
He missed, “The light at the end of the tunnel, is not the train”
Don’t you love how they chopped off the tape at “this is the bottom”?
I got a great giggle when Gov. Arnold Schwartzenegger, was using the “When the patient is bleeding to death, you don’t debate which ambulance company to call” Cliche. With his slow talk and Austrian accent it took about 5 minutes for him to get through it.
It would be better if he used an example from one of his movies “When Bennett, tried to get the knife I stuck in him at the end of commando…”
Which also reminds me that with all the Cliches on wall street I heard someone talk about “Arteries being clogged, and getting the medicine in the blood. I spent 10 minutes trying to figure out how that applied to any the current Fed programs.
Then I realized they were talking about some new drug on the market.
I thought it was ironic when he said, “must raise taxes”, instead of “Hasta la vista, L.A.”