Category Archives: Stock Market

Wondering what to expect next in the financial markets? Take your pick a BailOut, More Pain or Worse.

I’ll just have to get this doom and gloom post out of the way before I post another market update. Don’t worry, at least nothing new has changed in the real estate market. Slow has become business as usual for most. Now the rest of the world is starting to realize that [...]
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Real Estate, Art and the Mad Man

Can you imagine what the Mona Lisa would look like if Leonardo da Vinci worked quickly with a 4 inch brush?  He probably would not have caught the details necessary to communicate his intent and we likely would never have even heard of this masterpiece.  If the details get lost in translation, much of the [...]
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The Armchair Economist – Fed Rate Cuts and the Knee Jerk Reaction

  I’m putting on my armchair economist’s hat today.   I’m still amazed that people would get excited enough to buy stocks just because the Federal Reserve announces a rate cut but it happens more times than nought.   You would think that a savvy investor would buy a particular stock based off of expected growth of the asset [...]
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Timing the market – Real Estate Slow Stochastic

Just for fun, I wanted to take the pricing data stats from my previous post about market timing and apply a slow stochastic to the prices. Here’s essentially how they work with stocks. On the lower part of the image is an example of a slow stochastic. A buy signal is interpreted when the %k (green line) [...]
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