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Today was very impressive. I was so nervous early on for the market that I actually stepped away for a few hours to take a big long nap. Thankfully, when I woke up, I saw the market holding the gains but sadly EVERYONE and their mom was calling a bottom. That makes me think twice about the longevity of the rally in the future. However, for now, it was very nice to see.

Some of you may be a little confused with me being happy about a rally since I have so many shorts to longs. You have to remember that I am in 90%+ cash and now carry as much short as I do long even though I have 7x more shorts than longs. I have taken most of the BIG gains of 50%+ off the table and now only have a portion of the remaining shorts short to possibly

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Another week and another batch of fascinating video clips about bailouts, economic woes and other crisis-related matters. As to be expected, the good-news videos are in rather short supply. A number of the more interesting clips that have attracted my attention are shared below.

Some of my favourites included in this compilation are: “Peter Schiff uses analogies to describe crisis” (first one up) and “Dr Doom [Marc Faber] - Buffett’s approach to investing is dead” (further down). If you want to view only two of these clips, make sure to see these two.

Please post any interesting video links that you would like to share with the Investment Postcards community, in the comments section.

YouTube: Peter Schiff uses analogies to describe crisis “Ron

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Last week Trade-Ideas' released the first attempts of live automated trading on video.  I also mentioned that more were coming to the a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/TradeIdeas"Trade-Ideas Channel on YouTube/a.divbr //divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"Take a look at the latest video dated from Friday, November 28, 2008.  /span/spana href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE1z05tcl50"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE1z05tcl50/span/span/a/divdivbr //divdivA couple of things to note:/divdivollispan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"The video is much shorter/span - we're getting the hang of this and cutting to the chase quickly /liliThe platform through which we automate trades features span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"our partnership with Assent brokerage/span.  /li/oldivWe can (and have already) created automated trading solutions for various brokers.  a href="http://www.trade-ideas.com/Partners.html"Is yours one of them/a?  If not, give him/her a phone call and become a squeaky wheel - you'll be amazed at how badly they want you trading with them.br //divdivFeedback is always appreciated!/div/divdivbr //divdivbr //divdivbr //div

Do people not pay attention to volume at all? I am starting to begin they don’t after listening to all the typical talking loud-mouths this weekend. They all clamored and were happy the indexes were up 15% to 20% last week. Yet not a single person anywhere mentioned that volume was lower and lower each day as the rally went along. They also did not mention that we were right near/at the 50 day moving averages which are in a downtrend on all the indexes. Leaving these two key facts out made anything they said irrelevant.

There was always a possibility of waking up and seeing a market running away today but the truth is this market is predictable yet insanely impossible to trade unless you are a daytrader. After my initial short positions before the selloff really started, things have been harder to manage as shorts are not going down

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2 part series - Art Laffer, how sad to say your economic views only have a life of 9 months. Good to see Schiff get his dues even if the past 4-5 months has been rough on his patch of hideouts - outside of US Treasuries no one can find a place to make money on the long side in "buy and hold". I am more interested in the economic thesis since the stock market has rewarded no one... Unlike most, who chuckled snidely as he made his predictions in 06-07, I was taking furious notes :) [Sep 12: Peter Schiff on Fannie/Freddie] [Aug 3: Peter Schiff July 28 2008 on Glenn Beck] [Jun 2: US News & World Report -Peter Schiff's Worst Case Scenario] [Oct 2, 2007: Schiff - Housing Prices to Collapse] Speaking of Laffer, ...

A batch of interesting video clips about the election of Barack Obama and the unfolding financial crisis has appeared over the past few days as all and sundry are attempting to make sense of a rather murky picture. A number of clips that have attracted my attention are shared below.

Firstly, back to basics with a rudimentary explanation by Enspire of how the mortgage crisis came about. (Click here in case you missed Enspire’s previous video, “Understanding the financial crisis”.)

Enspire Learning: The mortgage banking meltdown

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Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) shares are at new low today but analysts and even Jim Cramer himself are going to bat for the case to buy Google shares on the cheap.  Que Quagmire...

Its a Google World, they rule Search, News, Blogs, Maps, Images, and of course Youtube.com, which none of us can live without, right Glen? Now that Google shares are trading at $300, its time ...