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	<title>Stock Market News &#38; Stocks to Watch from StraightStocks &#187; Richard Shaw</title>
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		<title>Are negative yield money funds next?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/are-negative-yield-money-funds-next/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/are-negative-yield-money-funds-next/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chrysler]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. policies have driven short-term interest rates to Japan-like levels, creating &#8220;free&#8221; money for banks, creating a massive carry-trade speculative investment funds flow,  financially crippling low and middle income senior citizens who have historically relied on bank deposits to supplement their meager Social Security checks, and pushing very hard on investors to leave the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Normal Allocation Becomes New Normal?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/old-normal-allocation-becomes-new-normal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/old-normal-allocation-becomes-new-normal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dow Jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve System]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[paralysis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The old normal allocation between the three most basic classes (Cash, Bonds and Stocks) is currently the new normal.
While the old normal return expectations for U.S. securities, and the allocation between U.S. securities and global securities (particularly emerging market securities) is not likely to be resemble the past; the old normal weighting between cash, bonds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Very Long-Term Asset Allocation Results</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/very-long-term-asset-allocation-results/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/very-long-term-asset-allocation-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qvmgroup.com/invest/?p=6743</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nobody has the time or patience to wait 82 years to experience the long-term, but if they did (or if they wanted to bet on the future based on the long-term past), here is how a simple allocation between the S&#38;P 500 index and the U.S. Aggregate Bond index worked out from 1926 through 2008.
Related [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Healthcare Legislation Investment Impact</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/u-s-healthcare-legislation-investment-impact/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/u-s-healthcare-legislation-investment-impact/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare field;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare providers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthcare Sector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare sectors]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[overall healthcare sector;]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qvmgroup.com/invest/?p=6731</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night the U.S. House of Representatives brought us one large step closer to a national healthcare system.  Investors should be cognizant of the financial effects that would follow.
In the extreme short-run, it would be reasonable to assume that the U.S. stock market would react negatively, although short-term price movements are often chaotic.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quality Individual U.S. Companies</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/quality-individual-u-s-companies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/quality-individual-u-s-companies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We generally prefer investment funds over individual stocks to minimize investment selection risk (focusing more on asset allocation as the greater issue).   However, when we do look at individual stocks, we focus on quality companies with financial strength, limited leverage, solid cash flow, and growing sales and dividends.
This short list consists of companies that  are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“China Up / U.S. Down” Theme Checkup</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/%e2%80%9cchina-up-u-s-down%e2%80%9d-theme-checkup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/%e2%80%9cchina-up-u-s-down%e2%80%9d-theme-checkup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qvmgroup.com/invest/?p=6663</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One big investment risk is subscribing to a popular mantra with your life&#8217;s savings, without continuously checking the data &#8212; the facts &#8212; to make sure the mantra continues to make sense.
The &#8220;China up&#8221; and &#8220;U.S. down&#8221; theme is a major current mantra.  There are plenty of very bright, well informed, high profile people espousing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare Co. Profits Sensitivity to Obamacare</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/healthcare-co-profits-sensitivity-to-obamacare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/healthcare-co-profits-sensitivity-to-obamacare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Approach healthcare providers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[healthcare system plans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical technology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qvmgroup.com/invest/?p=6611</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[National healthcare wherever is implemented squeezes prices and profits of the private businesses involved in the system.
Obamacare in the U.S. will be no different.  For investors in healthcare companies, it is a good idea to begin to think through which companies will be most severely negatively impacted or least impacted, to potentially make  deletions or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Less Than Good News from Germany</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/less-than-good-news-from-germany/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/less-than-good-news-from-germany/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The elections are over in Germany and the new finance minister is making sobering statements about recovery.  Germany is a major part of the European economy.  With Italy limping and Spain bleeding, Germany&#8217;s statement is hardly welcome.
New York Times (October 25, 2009) 
&#8220;Germany’s new finance minister, the veteran conservative politician Wolfgang Schäuble, moved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Budget  Debt History and Projections</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/u-s-budget-debt-history-and-projections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/u-s-budget-debt-history-and-projections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congressional Budget Office]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve System]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qvmgroup.com/invest/?p=6573</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Amidst all the soundbites and data tidbits about the condition of the U.S. fiscal and debt situation, it may be helpful to look at the data produced by the Congressional Budget Office.  While they may be way off, it is a good idea to know what figures your government is using to make its spending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Problem With Being Wealthy</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/a-problem-with-being-wealthy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/a-problem-with-being-wealthy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qvmgroup.com/invest/?p=6538</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many good things about being rich, but wealth also brings some problems.  The most obvious problem is how to stay rich in these troubled times.  Less obvious for the wealthy is that they have fewer practical investment vehicles than the average investor.
Just as large institutional investors have a smaller universe of individual stocks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SP 500 Price Change Frequency Distributions</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/sp-500-price-change-frequency-distributions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/sp-500-price-change-frequency-distributions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qvmgroup.com/invest/?p=6515</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This article presents the shape of the price change frequency distribution for the S&#38;P 500 over approximately six decades on a daily basis, monthly basis and calendar year basis.
The degree of &#8220;normality&#8221; of S&#38;P 500 price changes is high on a daily basis &#8212; it&#8217;s visually symmetrical.  The average change of 0.03% is less than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SP 500 % Price Change: 60 Yrs Monthly  Daily</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/sp-500-price-change-60-yrs-monthly-daily/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/sp-500-price-change-60-yrs-monthly-daily/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qvmgroup.com/invest/?p=6495</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[These two charts present the monthly and daily percentage price changes in the S&#38;P 500 from January 1950 through the most recent period in  2009, roughly 60 years.
After the exceptional experiences of the past year, a long-term look back may be helpful. Of course, we are in a different environment than the U.S. has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Copenhagen 2009 and Equity Markets</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/copenhagen-2009-and-equity-markets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/copenhagen-2009-and-equity-markets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emerging Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qvmgroup.com/invest/?p=6423</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We don&#8217;t know if the furor over climate, economic and sovereignty issues coming to a head over the impending December Copenhagen climate treaty is correct, incorrect, exaggerated or spot-on.
Obama on Cost Impact of Climate Policies (March 18, 2009):

Warren Buffett on Cost Impact of Climate Policies (March 9, 2009):

There is now concern that Obama will sign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Do CBOE Volatility Indexes Say?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/what-do-cboe-volatility-indexes-say/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/what-do-cboe-volatility-indexes-say/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commodities]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nasdaq 100]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qvmgroup.com/invest/?p=6412</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The CBOE publishes several options implied volatility indexes that can be helpful to stock investors who want to peek around the corner to the future through the eyes of options traders.
These two tables show the options implied (30-day future) volatility for several important indexes or index funds:
click image to enlarge

The &#8220;per year&#8221; column is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for Potential Sinkers in the SP 1500</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/looking-for-potential-sinkers-in-the-sp-1500/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/looking-for-potential-sinkers-in-the-sp-1500/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emerging Markets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a practical follow-up to our recent article on volume as an indicator, and on divergence between volume and price action in particular.
We screened the S&#38;P 1500 for stocks with rising prices and falling volumes.  More specifically, we looked for stocks with &#8220;sinker&#8221; attributes:

last closing price &#62; 21-day simple moving average price
positive 21-day price [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volume Perspective on U.S. and China ETFs</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/volume-perspective-on-u-s-and-china-etfs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/volume-perspective-on-u-s-and-china-etfs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bonds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our last article, we estimated the probable price range of the S&#38;P 500 based on historical and implied volatility, and suggested that the positive area of the range was more likely than the negative area for the next few weeks, because of the moving average trend indicators and the declining volatility of the 1-month [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12/31/2009 SP 500 Price Probability Projection</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/12312009-sp-500-price-probability-projection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The S&#38;P 500 index has an 80% probability of ending 2009 between the low 970&#8217;s and 1150 to 1170.
Historical volatility for the past 3-months would suggest 971 to 1151 for 80% probability.  Implied volatility in the 3-month CBOE volatility index would suggest about 974 to about 1172.
. . . . . . . . . [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Price Probability Ranges for Key Asset Categories</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/price-probability-ranges-for-key-asset-categories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/price-probability-ranges-for-key-asset-categories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cement;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kool-Aide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we published a visual view of price range probability cones for several securities (SPY, FXI, TLT and UUP).  This article builds on the concepts in that article and provides a tabular view of the same kind of data for twenty-seven asset categories.
The two tables below show the maximum and minimum price change that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Probable Price Ranges for SPY, FXI, UUP and TLT</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/probable-price-ranges-for-spy-fxi-uup-and-tlt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/probable-price-ranges-for-spy-fxi-uup-and-tlt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bonds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advisors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Securities And Exchange Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SPY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is no way to realistically make a precise price prediction for a particular date for a traded security.  It is possible, however, to observe the recent historical volatility (standard deviation) of a security to make realistic estimates of the probable range within which the security price may close through a future date.
In this article, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the other guy doing? Follow or Fade</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/what-is-the-other-guy-doing-follow-or-fade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/what-is-the-other-guy-doing-follow-or-fade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It can be useful to know how the average other guy is allocating assets, whether you are inclined to follow the crowd or to do something else.
Asset Allocation Among Public Investment Funds:
This table shows the asset allocation among public investment funds available in the U.S.  segmented by equity funds, bond funds, money market funds and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bond Funds Price Change vs Volatility</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/bond-funds-price-change-vs-volatility/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/bond-funds-price-change-vs-volatility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bonds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Stock volatility versus price change gets a lot of financial media attention, but bonds don&#8217;t get so much.
Bonds are an important part of portfolios that deserve investigative attention too.
This article provides data for  bond funds of various types in terms of price rate of change (not total return) versus price volatility to help &#8220;do-it-yourself&#8221; investors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does $1,000 Gold Signal Stock Correction?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/does-1000-gold-signal-stock-correction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/does-1000-gold-signal-stock-correction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Does gold rising and climbing to $1,000 signal a pending stock correction?  No.
A correction may occur, but the long-term record does not support the idea that gold rises predict stock declines.  The weekly 20-year chart of the S&#38;P 500 versus the price of gold bullion shows the absence of reliable predictive value about stocks from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filtering for Raised and Reduced Dividends</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/filtering-for-raised-and-reduced-dividends/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/filtering-for-raised-and-reduced-dividends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Equity income investors seek companies with significant and growing dividends.
Sometimes companies fall on hard times or change dividend philosophy, in which case the dividend investor should consider culling stocks of those companies from the portfolio.
We have developed a list of 427 companies with market-cap over $500 million for which the total dividends for the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China and India: Canaries in the Coal Mine?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-china/china-and-india-canaries-in-the-coal-mine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-china/china-and-india-canaries-in-the-coal-mine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emerging Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China Daily]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CNY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hindustan Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national bureau of statistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SPY]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are two bits of  business news that investors should factor into economic recovery projections.
Hindustan Times (September 2, 200)
Exports dip again, down 28.4% in July
India’s exports contracted for the 10th successive month, plunging by 28.4 per cent in July as order books continued to dry out from two of the biggest growth regions—the US and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filtering Globally for Telecoms Traded in the US</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/filtering-globally-for-telecoms-traded-in-the-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/filtering-globally-for-telecoms-traded-in-the-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prince Edward Island]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samsung 46IN LCD 1200:1 460DX BLACK 8MS 3YR ONSITE WARR LCD TV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Telephone companies have historically been stable equity income investments.  Internet and wireless technology has changed the landscape and &#8220;telephone&#8221; became &#8220;telecom&#8221;.  These days there are telecom investment opportunities around the globe with securities traded in US markets.
Our database has 276 companies classified as &#8220;Communications Services&#8221; (telecom).  We filtered for possible telecom investment prospects using these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GARP Filtering Financially Fit Companies</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/garp-filtering-financially-fit-companies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/garp-filtering-financially-fit-companies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cvs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ibm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Lynch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Standard & Poor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[subscription screening tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One viable approach to investing is seeking growth at a reasonable price (&#8221;GARP&#8221;) &#8212; the P/E ratio divided by the earnings growth rate (&#8221;PEG&#8221;).  It is a method that attempts to make comparison of P/E ratios between companies more meaningful by considering growth rates.
GARP is a hybrid method that has elements of value investing and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SP 500 Benchmark for Fundamental Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/sp-500-benchmark-for-fundamental-screening/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/sp-500-benchmark-for-fundamental-screening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you evaluate individual stocks on a fundamental basis, the following chart may be a useful benchmark.
Ideally, you would not purchase individual stocks with the issue selection risks involved, unless the fundamentals are more attractive than the benchmark.  You&#8217;ve got to know the benchmark fundamentals first to do that.  This chart should help.
click image to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Continuing Mid-Cap Outperformance</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-china/continuing-mid-cap-outperformance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-china/continuing-mid-cap-outperformance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SPY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since the 2008 crash and in 2009, mid-cap US stocks (proxy MDY) continue to outperform large-cap US stocks (proxy SPY) and small-cap US stocks (proxy IWM), as they have done fairly consistently for many years.
click image to enlarge

In May of 2008,  we published an article detailing the relative outperformance by mid-caps (value, growth and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liquid ETFs of Size with Yield</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/liquid-etfs-of-size-with-yield/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/liquid-etfs-of-size-with-yield/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bank fund]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a list of 73 exchange traded funds with at least $100 million market-cap, at least $1 million daily Dollar trading volume, and at least 3% annualized last dividend yield.
click image to enlarge


Note that the yield in this table is only one of several ways to express yield.  This particular method annualizes most most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Options Implied Stock Prices Forward 30 Days</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/options-implied-stock-prices-forward-30-days/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/options-implied-stock-prices-forward-30-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dow 30]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nasdaq 100]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russell 2000]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sp 500]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SPY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Options traders provide one community of opinions worth considering when evaluating short-term prospects for stocks. While they as a group could be totally wrong, they differ importantly from analysts and academics, because they are risking their money on their opinions.
It is mathematically possible to extrapolate the probable range of future prices through a specified period [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volatility Approach to SPY Next 30 Days</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/volatility-approach-to-spy-next-30-days/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/volatility-approach-to-spy-next-30-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sp 500]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SPY]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qvmgroup.com/invest/?p=5830</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many ways to attempt to divine the future of the market.  They don&#8217;t all work, and all of them don&#8217;t work at least some of the time.
Let&#8217;s look at one approach to estimate the probable price range for the S&#38;P 500 index (using SPY as the proxy) over the next 30 days, based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trend Condition of Country Funds</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/trend-condition-of-country-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/trend-condition-of-country-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Developed Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emerging Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frontier Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SPY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There were some substantial price moves today for many country and region funds.  How do they look now relative to their 200-day simple moving averages?
The chart below shows the ratio of the price to the 200-day average, and the 100-day average to the 200-day average, for 35 country and region funds as of end-of-day August [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware September?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/beware-september/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/beware-september/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The S&#38;P 500 and numerous other indexes have had a good run lately, and some analysts feel the market has gone too far too fast &#8212; due for a correction.
Mark Mobius suggests a 30% pullback is in store.  Jeremy Grantham said in July that fair value for the S&#38;P 500 is about 880 (current level [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Key Category Trend Lines (Aug. 14, 2009)</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/key-category-trend-lines-aug-14-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the simple moving average directions and linear regression slopes for 200-days and 100-days for representative funds or indexes for twenty-seven key asset categories that we follow closely.
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Overall, we find this data encouraging.
Of course, this information doesn&#8217;t say they will be no retracement, but certainly a preponderance of upward trends is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Searching For Financially Sound Equity REITS</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/searching-for-financially-sound-equity-reits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/searching-for-financially-sound-equity-reits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Standard & Poor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Equity REITs have made a strong move lately.  We have expressed our doubts about the wisdom of that move (Are REITs Ahead of Themselves?), and wonder about the quality of the underlying trusts.
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To look behind the REIT fund surge to constituent REITs, we screened for the more financially sound individual trusts.
REITs face [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bullish Internals for NYSE Stocks</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/bullish-internals-for-nyse-stocks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/bullish-internals-for-nyse-stocks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sp 500]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It hardly escapes attention that stocks have been on the move upward.  Let&#8217;s look at some internal measures of the NYSE listings to see how they look.
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The ratio of new highs to new lows is strong and resembles the pattern that indicator showed at the beginning of the bull that followed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chart Conditions for Key Asset Categories</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/chart-conditions-for-key-asset-categories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/chart-conditions-for-key-asset-categories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Major]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SPY]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These weekly charts provide a common comparison basis for several key asset categories.
Each chart is from 1/1/2007 through 8/7/2009 (or as close to 1/1/2007 as possible based on the inception date of the fund).  The indicators are Fibonacci retracement lines from the highest point in 2007; the 40-week (gold color) and 20-week (green color) simple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back Test Harris Private Bank System</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/back-test-harris-private-bank-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/back-test-harris-private-bank-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When possible, we like to back test systems talked about in the financial press.  In this week&#8217;s Barron&#8217;s (August 10, 2009 issue), Jack Albin, Chief Investment Officer of Harris Private Bank said in &#8220;For Stocks, the Signs Point Up&#8220;,
&#8220;At Harris, our simple momentum-trading rule is to buy the market when it crosses above its 200-day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are REITs Ahead of Themselves?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/are-reits-ahead-of-themselves/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/are-reits-ahead-of-themselves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSCI REIT;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSCI US Equity REIT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real estate credit problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[S&P]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sp 500]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Equity REITs in the US have been rising since the March lows like most categories, but have surged in the past few days, as the larger US and international stock markets have moderated their rise, including some recent down days.
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REIT investors may be relying on the arguments that the recession is ending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confidence Surveys  Investor Polls</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/confidence-surveys-investor-polls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/confidence-surveys-investor-polls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ceo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conference Board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The broad consumer confidence index reported a decline below the 50% level on July 28.  Let&#8217;s see how some other dimensions of confidence look.
CONFERENCE BOARD
In addition to reporting the drop in the consumer confidence index below 50%, the Conference Board reported a drop in the present situation index (a number in the 30&#8217;s), and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rocky Balboa on Investing</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/rocky-balboa-on-investing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[judge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SPY]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rocky Balboa actually never talked about investing, but while preparing for a fight he said &#8221; It ain&#8217;t how hard you can hit.   It&#8217;s how hard you can get hit.&#8221;
Those words from a simple man are a simple explanation of part of our approach to investment decisions for those of our clients who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ETFs in Primary Up Trend</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/etfs-in-primary-up-trend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/etfs-in-primary-up-trend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These two tables present those ETFs with over $100 of market-cap and which also have 200-day moving averages that are sloping upward.
If your goal is to own ETFs that have a rising primary trend, then these ETFs are probably a reasonable place at this time to find opportunity.
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Bond &#38; Currency ETFs



Stocks and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Background Info on Leading Bond ETFs</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/bonds/background-info-on-leading-bond-etfs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/bonds/background-info-on-leading-bond-etfs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bonds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ETF pool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Macro Trader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We find that investors tend to have a clearer understanding of the portfolios behind equity funds than behind bond funds.  This blog post is provided to shine some light in a comparative way on the portfolios and recent performance of several leading bond ETFs.
To be clear, we are not recommending any particular asset allocation or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trolling for High Quality Equity Income</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/trolling-for-high-quality-equity-income/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/trolling-for-high-quality-equity-income/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manitoba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[proxy SPY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sp 500]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SPY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Standard & Poor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Macro Trader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Equity income has the potential to grow.  Bond income does not.  Investors with an income orientation should have at least some level of equity income to supplement fixed income from bonds to keep up with the cost of living.  Inflation is the inevitable long-term outcome of monetary and fiscal policy (current deflation notwithstanding).
When selecting stocks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who’s Smarter?  Bond Guys or Stock Guys?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/who%e2%80%99s-smarter-bond-guys-or-stock-guys/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/who%e2%80%99s-smarter-bond-guys-or-stock-guys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barclays Plc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barry Knapp;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BlackRock Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bloomberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cnn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Co]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Co Chairman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[co-CEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[co-chairman of the fixed-income policy committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fareed Zakaria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Franklin Templeton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GPS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[head]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[head of U.S. equity strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Materasso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mohamed el erian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSCI Emerging Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSCI World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PIMCO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Mateo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sp 500]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SPY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Standard & Poor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Macro Trader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timothy  Geithner;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[treasury secretary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our issue is how to reconcile the opposite views of experts in the bond world versus experts in the stock world.  The market is always full of opposing views.  One stock guy predicts UP and the other predicts DOWN.  However, when the bond guys and the stock guys disagree, that is a more fundamental problem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Key Asset Categories Vs Cash</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/key-asset-categories-vs-cash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[major US bond types]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[proxy SPY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sp 500]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SPY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Macro Trader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the time that we see or produce performance comparison charts, either a stock index (such as the S&#38;P 500) or a bond index (such the US Aggregate Bonds) is the base.  However, cash might be a reasonable base to use as well.  We can&#8217;t spend stocks and we can&#8217;t spend bonds.  We can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Beat Cash Over the Past 1 and 3 Years?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/what-beat-cash-over-the-past-1-and-3-years/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/what-beat-cash-over-the-past-1-and-3-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Macro Trader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Us Treasury]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cash is not only not trash, it has been one of the better investments in recent months, and to some degree even recent years.
The Barclay&#8217;s 1-3 Month US Treasury index (a reasonable proxy for cash) returned 3.05% annually over the past three years (ending June, 2009) with a 0.59% standard deviation.  What beat that?
Looking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asset Allocaton Did Not Fail; the Allocators Failed</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/asset-allocaton-did-not-fail-the-allocators-failed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dominant representative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iShares site]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sp 500]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SPY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Macro Trader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot said and written lately about the failure of asset allocation, supposedly proven by the large losses experienced in 2008.  We don&#8217;t believe asset allocation failed.  We believe asset allocation practitioners failed in their execution.
Too much slicing and dicing had crept into the working definitions of asset classes &#8212; pushing granularity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Current Markets Picture</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/current-markets-picture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/current-markets-picture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sp 500]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Macro Trader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The S&#38;P 500 appears to have made the transition from aging rally to beginning of correction.  As we have said before, something like 800 is a likely support level that could be the end of the correction (down a bit more than 10%), unless confidence is shaken so much that lows may be tested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Budget Gaps   Investment Implications</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/state-budget-gaps-investment-implications/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/state-budget-gaps-investment-implications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arkansas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[c]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Muni Money Funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Schwab & Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chrysler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chubb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constitutional law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[State budgets are a shambles. Sales taxes, corporate taxes, personal income taxes and other taxes are being raised all over the country.  The budget problems and consequential taxes will impact municipal bond rates and default risk, and after-tax investment returns on many forms of investment.
California Muni Money Funds:
We have been advising our California clients holding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPS Forecasts Portend Positive Market … Sort Of</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-china/eps-forecasts-portend-positive-market-%e2%80%a6-sort-of/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-china/eps-forecasts-portend-positive-market-%e2%80%a6-sort-of/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bonds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the consensus earnings estimates coming out of Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s and &#8220;the Street&#8221; (via Thompson Reuters) are realistic, then it looks pretty good for a stable to rising market value.  We say value instead of prices, because price and value don&#8217;t always coincide.
At 923 the S&#38;P 500 is about 12 times the 2010 $74.10 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emerging Markets: Leading or Following?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/emerging-markets-leading-or-following/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/emerging-markets-leading-or-following/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Developed Markets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are emerging markets leading the developed markets forward, or following their lead?
The answer may depend on when you start the observation.
Two key asset classes are stocks and bonds.  Let’s look at total stocks and sovereign bonds for each of the United States, the non-US developed markets, and the emerging markets to see how they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which Way’d They Go?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/which-way%e2%80%99d-they-go/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/which-way%e2%80%99d-they-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saying it&#8217;s better to buy when securities are going up than when they are going down is easy.  Actually determining what is up and what is down is not quite as easy.
We have said and wish to reiterate that you should buy makes good sense to own for fundamental reasons when it is going up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bye-Bye Muni Bonds? “Muni-TARP” to Follow?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/bonds/bye-bye-muni-bonds-%e2%80%9cmuni-tarp%e2%80%9d-to-follow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 25 (Bloomberg) – “Barack Obama may be the worst thing that ever happened to tax-exempt bonds &#8230;. “ 
We certainly agree and see more trouble for tax-exemption down the road.
Obama Chief of Staff, Emanuel said, “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.”, and the administration is taking that advice by sponsoring and subsidizing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BRIC to BIC to BICI?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/bric-to-bic-to-bici/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/bric-to-bic-to-bici/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Developed Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emerging Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mark;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs coined &#8220;BRIC&#8221; for Brazil, Russia, India and China.  Some commentators have recently suggested that Russia&#8217;s stocks are too volatile, economy too fragile and politics too hostile to capital, and that maybe &#8220;BIC&#8221; is more attractive.  Based on the recently released forecast for GDP growth by the World Bank and the OECD, maybe &#8220;BICI&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Portfolios Simple</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/keeping-portfolios-simple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Different strokes for different folks.  Some investors, prefer individual stocks and bonds.  Others prefer funds.  Some have a combination.  All too often, investors have an eclectic collection of stocks, bonds, funds and  annuities that they have accumulated over a lifetime with no clear rationale or plan.
Greater simplicity is most often the obvious need.  At the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SP 500 In Correcton Mode — to Where?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/sp-500-in-correcton-mode-%e2%80%94-to-where/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/sp-500-in-correcton-mode-%e2%80%94-to-where/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The S&#38;P 500 is moving down lately.  Let&#8217;s look at some chart perspectives to project possible near-term end points for the price movement.
Support, Resistance and Retracement:
The S&#38;P 500 is approaching a potential support level at about 875 based on 20-day price channels.  If it pierces that level and stays there for a few days, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>G2: A Tale of Two Countries</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-china/g2-a-tale-of-two-countries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qvmgroup.com/invest/?p=4945</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The United States and China are referred to now as the G2; whose twists and turns dominate world economic dialogue, and perhaps outcomes. They are a study in contrasts economically, politically, demographically, socially, in terms of national balance sheet, GDP growth, government roles in business, and more.  A side-by-side comparison of the charts for two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fundamental and Technical Convergence</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/fundamental-and-technical-convergence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Abelson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fred Hickey;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is interesting to see how close the institutional S&#38;P 500 forecasts for 2009 come to the price level possibilities suggested by the S&#38;P 500 chart.  Maybe fundamentals and technicals are converging on an idea, or maybe the institutions use technical indicators more than one might expect.
click image to enlarge

This chart of S&#38;P 500 rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nervous Active Fund Managers and the Rally</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/nervous-active-fund-managers-and-the-rally/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/nervous-active-fund-managers-and-the-rally/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several commentators on Bloomberg TV have attributed significant force in the recent rally to short covering and to nervous active mutual fund and pension fund managers whose compensation (and in severe cases, jobs) are at risk if they under-perform the market on a short-term basis.
There is no question that most active managers are compensated in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trend Condition of Key Stock Categories</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/trend-condition-of-key-stock-categories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/trend-condition-of-key-stock-categories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Staying abreast of the direction of the primary trend (200-day average) of key stock categories and the position of moving averages of various length relative to the primary trend is helpful, along with fundamental and marco-economic information, in maintaining an overall situational awareness.
The table below presents the ratio of the value of the the 200-day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filtered Equity Income Stock Prospects</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/filtered-equity-income-stock-prospects/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/filtered-equity-income-stock-prospects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qvmgroup.com/invest/?p=4812</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are increasingly asked about low risk individual stocks that may be suitable for an equity income allocation within a portfolio.  This is a general response to that question.
Before offering a prospect list in which you might find attractive ideas, we want to make it clear that diversification of sectors and individual securities is important; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Country Fund Portfolio Attributes Comparison</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/country-fund-portfolio-attributes-comparison/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Austria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belgium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eastern Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[israel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sweden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Switzerland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taiwan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking at country and region funds in terms of fundamental portfolio attributes, there are significant valuation differences which should be appreciated when making selections.
This chart presents key data from Morningstar for 45 country and region funds, and color codes the data in comparison to the total US stock market as represented by VTI.
Attributes of funds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Normalized Earnings to Value SP 500</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abbey Cohen;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Archie McAllaster;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fred Hickey;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marc Faber]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many institutional S&#38;P 500 forecasts in the media for 2009, generally ranging from 850 to 1100 with some outliers on each side, but seldom is the underlying detail provided.  One of the more common methods of estimation involves normalization of earnings times a reasonable multiple based on history.
This article will attempt to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Super Simplistic SP Valuation Gauge</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/super-simplistic-sp-valuation-gauge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is one super simplistic, maybe too simplistic, but certainly quick and dirty way to guess what might be a fair value of the S&#38;P 500 index in the near future.
The following chart of 12-month trailing S&#38;P 500 &#8220;as reported&#8221; earnings and year-end index prices provided by Standard and Poor&#8217;s shows that S&#38;P projects $37.81 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SP 500 Valuation With Normalized Earnings</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/sp-500-valuation-with-normalized-earnings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/sp-500-valuation-with-normalized-earnings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Abelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Archie McAllaster;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marc Faber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meryl Witmer;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Olympus SP-500 UZ Digital Camera;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many institutional S&#38;P 500 forecasts in the media for 2009, generally ranging from 850 to 1100 with some outliers on each side, but seldom is the underlying detail provided.  One of the more common methods of estimation involves normalization of earnings times a reasonable multiple based on history.
This article will attempt to back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Low Quality Leading the Market?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/is-low-quality-leading-the-market/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/is-low-quality-leading-the-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nasdaq 100]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[S]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology Stocks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Numerous sources say that low quality stocks have led the recent US stock market rally. While that may be true in terms of percent change in price, looking at the question from the perspective of the slope of the primary trend, we draw a somewhat different conclusion about what&#8217;s doing well.
Review Method:
We calculated the percentage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Over-Weight Emerging Markets</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/over-weight-emerging-markets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Developed Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emerging Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Rogers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Mobius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody has a different stock / bond /cash allocation that is best for them.   Whether the selected equity allocation is high or low, we think over-weighting emerging markets and under-weighting developed markets within the allocation is the better long-term strategy for long-term investors &#8212; except for investors currently relying on, or about to rely on, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Financial Strength Companies List</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/top-financial-strength-companies-list/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/top-financial-strength-companies-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amount sleep insurance;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This list of companies selected for top financial strength characteristics could be valuable to do-it-yourself, conservative, risk averse individual stock or bond investors, as a starting place to begin looking for suitable opportunities.
From the thousands of companies available in the US, this list of 38 companies represents some of those with the greatest fundamental financial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goldman Forecasts China Ascendency</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-china/goldman-forecasts-china-ascendency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-china/goldman-forecasts-china-ascendency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canon AT-1 Film Camera;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hummer;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Bank for Reconstruction and Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opel;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Volvo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs now forecasts that the China economy will overtake the US as the world&#8217;s largest economy by 2027.  Several emerging market countries are predicted by Goldman to overtake key developed market countries in the not too distant future.
They predict near term-growth for China at 8.3% in 2009 and 10.5% in 2010, compared to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quantitative Chart Comparisons: Key Categories</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/quantitative-chart-comparisons-key-categories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/quantitative-chart-comparisons-key-categories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This table presents 336 data points that quantitatively compare 12 attributes of the price charts for 28 key asset categories that may be found in many portfolios. The categories include representation for domestic and foreign bonds, hybrid securities, domestic and foreign stocks, real assets, commodities and currencies.
The data provides a compact way to help develop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fed Chairman Speaks, Stocks Fall</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/fed-chairman-speaks-stocks-fall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/fed-chairman-speaks-stocks-fall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bank asset troubles;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before the House Budget Committee Wednesday calling for fiscal balance and voiced the need to limit debt issuance, presenting a less than rosy picture, including a projected $1.8 Trillion federal budget deficit and rising Treasury interest rates over concerns about the deficit.  He said the Fed has limits and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s the Trend?  Where’s the Price?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is important to have situational awareness in battle; and investing is certainly a battle these days.  From situational awareness, you can attempt adaptive response, which in battle and in this market may be a key to survival.
Let&#8217;s look at three key equity funds and three key bond funds representing three key segments of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Screening for Yielding, Growing, Rising Stocks</title>
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		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/screening-for-yielding-growing-rising-stocks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Pipeline LP;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ARLP Alliance Resource Partners LP;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BPL Buckeye Partners LP;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BPL;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MMP Magellan Midstream Partners LP;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nova Scotia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NS NuStar Energy LP;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you get when you want yield that is growing along with sales and earnings over a period of years, less than sky high valuation, and evidence of a rising price pattern?
The answer today is not very many stocks, and not necessarily the most exciting names. Not every exploration finds gold.  Some of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bull/Bear Analyst Forecasts</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/bullbear-analyst-forecasts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asset Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank Of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank of America/Merrill Lynch;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barry Knapp;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berkshire Hathaway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bill gross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Binky Chadha;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bloomberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bull/Bear;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Minter;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comstock Partners;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David  Sokol]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deutsche Bank US;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FTSE 100]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gluskin Sheff;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GMO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hayes Miller;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HSBC Global Asset Management;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jason Todd;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jeremy grantham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Bogle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JP Morgan Chase]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lehman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Goldfeld;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marty Weiner;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[PIMCO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Private Wealth Management]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Lee;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BULL - June 1: Deutsche Bank US equity analyst Binky Chadha forecasts S&#38;P 500 at 1060 by 2009 year-end, citing improving corporate profit margins.  He said aggregate profit margins for S&#38;P 500 “remains well below the average of the last few years, implying considerable potential upside over the medium term.”
BULL - June 1: JP Morgan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rally Looking Tired, Some Indicators Improving</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-china/rally-looking-tired-some-indicators-improving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Association of Individual Investors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Bank for Reconstruction and Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Zoellick]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The S&#38;P 500 rally is beginning to look a bit tired.  The price action is more sideways than up and the volume is declining.  That may just be the pause that refreshes, or it may be the pause before a retracement.
Some important indicators, such as the VIX, the rate spread between LIBOR and Treasuries, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fund Money Flows Positive Once Again</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/fund-money-flows-positive-once-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 17:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investment Company Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retail investor fund assets;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Each month the Investment Company Institute publishes data for net money flows into and out of mutual funds available in the United States which we present here.  They have turned positive after months of massive outflows.
While ETFs are quite popular and increasingly so, mutual funds still are where the bulk of retail investor fund assets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Interest in Currency Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 14:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Currency Funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Current Currency Funds;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deutsche Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[increased retail investors;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QVM Group LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retail spot currency trading platforms;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Investor interest in currencies is increasing.
The currency market dwarfs all other markets, trading over $4 trillion per day. The US Dollar dominates that trading, and the big four are the Dollar, the Euro, the Yen and the Pound.  The Australian Dollar, the Canadian Dollar and the Swiss Franc make up the second rank by volume.
Some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wide Fund Survey &#8211; Prices vs Primary Trend</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/wide-fund-survey-prices-vs-primary-trend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/wide-fund-survey-prices-vs-primary-trend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 00:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qvmgroup.com/invest/?p=4118</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Assuming for this discussion that the 200-day moving average of a security could be called its primary trend, let&#8217;s see how the prices of a round-the-world selection of 61 diverse fund types (and 6 transport indexes) stack up to their primary trend, and whether their primary trend is up or down.
The first observation is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SP 500 Trend and Reversal Prospects</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/sp-500-trend-and-reversal-prospects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 00:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the 200-day primary trend line of the S&#38;P 500 showing its prolonged and continued downward movement (bear market condition) along with the position of four secondary trend lines that must move above the primary trend line before the primary trend changes slope from negative to positive.
Those staging into risk positions in the US [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SP 500 Internals Then and Now</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/sp-500-internals-then-and-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/sp-500-internals-then-and-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 23:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Murphy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The S&#38;P 500 index (proxy SPY and IVV) is in much better shape now than on March 6 (the low so far, and maybe the low).  However, not all lights are flashing green yet.
First at the macro level, SPY shows that the 200-day average and the 50-day average were both sloping down on March 6.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s All UP?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/bonds/what%e2%80%99s-all-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/bonds/what%e2%80%99s-all-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bonds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fixed income continues to be the steady upward asset, but not all fixed income.
Sorting through the 270 ETFs with at least $1 million per day in trading volume, looking for those that are strongly upward moving, we find these 13 hitting on all cylinders:

Criterion Tests:
In addition to the liquidity of $1 million per day in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TechCheck Scan ETF Universe</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/techcheck-scan-etf-universe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/techcheck-scan-etf-universe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 14:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qvmgroup.com/invest/?p=4008</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We recently scanned the 800+ ETFs for those that trade at least $1 million per day.  There were 270 of them.  Today we scanned that list of 270 for those that exhibit strong upward price pressure in the form of the price, the 5-week average, the 10-week average and the 20-week average all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TechCheck for Top Rated US Stocks</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-china/techcheck-for-top-rated-us-stocks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-china/techcheck-for-top-rated-us-stocks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 21:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ibm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard ShawQVM Group LLC;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Standard;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TechCheck system;]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qvmgroup.com/invest/?p=3997</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In our last article, we applied our TechCheck evaluation system to 52 ETFs representing a large swath of the investment category alternatives.  In this article, we apply the TechCheck evaluation to twelve top rated individual US stocks.
We identified the twelve US stocks that both Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s and Value Line rate in their top two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Role of the 200-Day Average In Risk Management</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/role-of-the-200-day-average-in-risk-management/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/role-of-the-200-day-average-in-risk-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 15:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AMEX Japan;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some investors use the 200-day simple moving average (alternatively the 40-week or 10-month average) as a primary trend line indicating an upward or downward moving market.  Some also use it as a reference line around which the price or other moving averages oscillate.
It is easier to be motivated to be in a risk asset when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mantra Today: “Too Far, To Fast”</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-china/mantra-today-%e2%80%9ctoo-far-to-fast%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-china/mantra-today-%e2%80%9ctoo-far-to-fast%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 22:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bonds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developed Markets]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qvmgroup.com/invest/?p=3838</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As we listened to Bloomberg all day, we lost count of the number of times anchors or guests said the market has gone &#8220;too far, too fast&#8221; &#8212; it sounded like group think and crowd behavior.  While we do tend to agree with the assessment and have said so before today, it lost all effect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broad Category Chart Vectors</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-china/broad-category-chart-vectors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 17:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the physical world, movement has two key properties: Direction and Magnitude.  If we think of price patterns shown on charts in a physical world way, we can assign Direction and Magnitude to each chart.
In the table below, we show the UP, DN or FLAT Direction of the 5-week, 10-week, 20-week and 40-week simple moving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Country Funds Chart Comparisons</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/country-funds-chart-comparisons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 14:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qvmgroup.com/invest/?p=3792</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How do the price trends of different country funds compare?
One way to approach the question of comparison is to use a &#8220;common size&#8221;,  percentage price change scale instead of a currency unit price change scale.  A somewhat clearer picture may also be possible at the same time by comparing multiple simple moving averages of progressive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SP 500 Rolling Price Returns from 1926</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/sp-500-rolling-price-returns-from-1926/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 15:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This chart presents the 12-month rolling price return of the S&#38;P 500 from January 1926 through April 2009.  It also shows the 3-year, 10-year and 83-year averages of the 12-month rolling price return.
The 83-year average price return is 6.98%.  The 3-year average of the rolling return is negative 4.15%, and the 10-year average is 0.46%.
click [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SP 500 at 370 to 3700 in 2012. What?!</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/sp-500-at-370-to-3700-in-2012-what/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/sp-500-at-370-to-3700-in-2012-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 15:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[al-Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto makers;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[basic tools;]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qvmgroup.com/invest/?p=3761</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Predictions are very difficult &#8212; particularly when they are about the future.  Financial projections are about the future and they are difficult.  They are prone to wide errors, because all the base numbers and growth rates are selected and subject to judgment error and bias.
The trick is to  select that base number and growth rationally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SP 500 5-mo  10-mo SMAs from 1926</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/sp-500-5-mo-10-mo-smas-from-1926/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/sp-500-5-mo-10-mo-smas-from-1926/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 19:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qvmgroup.com/invest/?p=3731</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve made the assertion, as have some others, that cross-overs by the 5-month and 10-month (or 6-month and 12-month) simple moving averages of the S&#38;P 500 has been a pretty good indicator of trend changes.  The method has prevented a lot of in and out that shorter-term indicators might cause, and has captured the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Insider Selling Question</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/the-insider-selling-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 10:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Lab]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qvmgroup.com/invest/?p=3708</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The ratio of share sales to share purchases by US insiders shot way into bear territory at the height of the stock market rally in the US stock market during April.
The net sales spike was much higher than at any time in the past year.
As of late that ratio has fallen back into a neutral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASDAQ Looking Good, SP 500 Maybe</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/market-commentary/nasdaq-looking-good-sp-500-maybe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 07:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nasdaq 100]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qvmgroup.com/invest/?p=3693</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The NASDAQ (proxy QQQQ) is on the verge of piercing its 200-day average and taking out an import prior peak resistance level. That&#8217;s a good sign.  The S&#38;P 500 (proxies SPY and IVV) is not looking as strong and has a couple of important hurdles yet.
click image to enlarge
NASDAQ

The NASDAQ November high is nearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choice of Yield Spreads as Stocks Indicator</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/bonds/choice-of-yield-spreads-as-stocks-indicator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 05:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bonds]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve System]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, we published an article on &#8220;inter-market&#8221; analysis, asserting that the ratio of the price of the Vanguard high yield corporate bond (VWEHX) fund to the Vanguard investment grade corporate bond fund (VFICX) - a proxy for the BAA to AA yield spread, has some use as a roughly coincident trend indicator [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Man’s Junk Is Another’s Treasure</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 20:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a post yesterday, we showed how long-term movements of yield spreads between US high quality and low quality debt tends to move coincident with, and in the same direction as, US stocks over multi-year periods. The pattern worked well for the last three stock trend changes in 2000, 2003 and 2007.
It seems that inter-market [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When High Seems Like Low</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 17:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The VIX (a measure of options volatility, an indicator of stock market volatility risk, and reputedly a &#8220;fear gauge&#8221;) has come down so far from being historically high, that commentators now speak of it as low.  The fact is that is it still high relative to the intermediate past.
The 10-year average VIX is 22.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stocks/Bonds Intermarket Considerations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 21:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Credit markets can be useful to help understand and predict stock market price trend changes.
Increasing yield spreads indicate worsening economic conditions &#8212; bad for stocks.  Bond versus stock performance has, at least in the past couple of market phases, given good signals about turns in the stock market direction.
Both indicators say the stock market has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stock Versus Bond Performance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 19:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bonds have outperformed stocks in the past decade, and over significant periods over the past 200 years.
Index Universe published an excellent article by Bob Arnott on bonds performance versus stocks performance.  We recommend reading it.  From the article:
&#8220;Most observers, whether bond skeptics or advocates, would be shocked to learn that the 40-year excess return for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SP 500 Internals: April 29, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The S&#38;P 500 (proxies SPY and IVV) staged an impressive rally today in the face of the worst GDP drop in 50 years for the first quarter, and the possibility of the second quarter being adversely impacted by a flu pandemic (now level 4 of 5).
Nonetheless consumer sentiment is improving in the US and Europe.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compare Nine Asset Categories</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bonds continue to show the more favorable results, as viewed through two-year, weekly charts.  Stocks, real estate and commodities remain in intermediate-term down trends.
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The national municipal bond ETF (MUB) is up, but a more granular view of municipal bonds through Vanguard mutual funds, shows that the short-term munis are rising, the [...]]]></description>
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