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Damn it, Canada's GDP went positive for the second month in a row, CAD is rallying against USD.

The "good" longer term news is that GDP is likely rallying due to real-estate and related markets, and Canadians setting new record debt levels -- because everyone can afford million dollar houses here. It sure isn't rallying based on commodities that China doesn't seem to want as much anymore.
 
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If apple sold 30% more iphones opening weekend how is their stock getting hammered so hard.
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China wasn't involved in initial sales last time

China is involved now, so either people wanted the #s to be much higher than 30% or its because general market sentiment has been negative and news has to be really good for the market to react positively
 
Job numbers for September in America kind of sucked... Almost guarantees no rate hike for a long time?

I may as well plow it all back into PFF then, get some cash-flow going. Part of me wants to cash out into CAD but I know that the fundamentals of Canada's economy suck -- substantial portion reliant on real-estate and commodities, overly indebted/tapped out consumers.
 
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Job numbers for September in America kind of sucked... Almost guarantees no rate hike for a long time?

I may as well plow it all back into PFF then, get some cash-flow going. Part of me wants to cash out into CAD but I know that the fundamentals of Canada's economy suck -- substantial portion reliant on real-estate and commodities, overly indebted/tapped out consumers.
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One bad jobs report isn't that big of a deal and the unemployment rate is still at 5.1%. If the trend continues, they might not hike until next year.

The real issue for the fed is the participation rate. Yellen believes that there is still slack in the labor market because we're only around a 60% participation rate when historically it should be a few percentage points higher. But some economists believe most of the slack has been wrung out of the market. Labor cost index has already started to increase but not enough to cause inflation, especially in light of the disinflationary factors like energy and commodities.

If the trend continues, the fed will probably postpone a hike until 2016. But the strength of the dollar isn't solely dependent upon rates. We're still the strongest economy in the world and as long as that's the case, the dollar will be in high demand.
 
Scottrade should be fined into the ground if they were found to have poor security practices which I'm sure is the case. Companies want to pay as little as possible for security and when customers' data is impacted they aren't held sufficiently responsible.
 
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Ouchies... POT withdrew bid for K+S:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repo...-nixes-87-billion-bid-for-ks/article26647451/

There was talk that the stock could go back up if the bid were successful. Maybe they priced it in already but this might get ugly.
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The shares are climbing because their original bid would have overpaid for a company that due to union/labor issues, would have been less flexible than POT. It would have also given them a lot of debt and increased the risk of a dividend cut.

If you are not willing to wait for the next commodity super cycle then I would stay out of all commodities. I have small positions in oil, potash and copper. About every 5 - 15 years these stocks triple when demand picks up.
 
Yep, POT is up.

Suncor doing a hostile takeover of Canadian Oil Sands... up 48% in one day. Now at CA$ 9.20-ish, still significantly lower than the CA$ 10.50-ish when I got out of it. Would have been a nice one day gain though.

Edit: It's a "bid" so nothing's done yet -- that explains why there's such a big premium right now. Apparently, they bid around CA$ 12.50 earlier in the year. Might fall through again.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/sun...with-bid-for-canadian-oil-sands-ltd-1.3257093
 
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Alright, its that time again. Tomorrow is the 6th trading day of the month. Which means it is time to evaluate my picks from last month

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NFLX and PSA did good, the rest were meh. 2% monthly return.

I did some more work on the software, since the two purge buttons clearly are not adequate for filtering out bad picks. The chart navigator makes it really easy to cycle through the charts and weed out the bad picks. A stock must have a 50dma above its 75dma for the vast majority of the last 30 days, 90 days, AND 6 months. And those two moving averages must both be above the 200dma for the vast majority of those same 3 periods. If it is too close to call from a quick glance at the chart, then I discard the pick. Also, the stock absolutely must not close under its 200dma at any point in the last 10 days. Those are the rules. I removed PVH because it clearly is not meeting those rules. I will eventually automate these rules, but for now I just have to cycle through the charts and click the delete button to filter out bad picks. Not a big deal. I'm not going to go through that effort unless the returns prove to be better than 2% a month.

Anyway, here are the picks for october:

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Symbols used are the entire S&P500.
 
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I get the Zacks newsletter and so far they have been saying stay long but the last week, it's been "bear is coming". Not sure if they see it coming or if they are trying to push their "making profits during a bear market" program.
 
JTsyo said:
I get the Zacks newsletter and so far they have been saying stay long but the last week, it's been "bear is coming". Not sure if they see it coming or if they are trying to push their "making profits during a bear market" program.
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people actually take Zacks seriously?
 
JTsyo said:
I get the Zacks newsletter and so far they have been saying stay long but the last week, it's been "bear is coming". Not sure if they see it coming or if they are trying to push their "making profits during a bear market" program.
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I visit marketwatch.com periodically and I noticed that whatever the market is doing, they will have articles telling you to do the opposite. Markets up, the articles say sell, markets falling, they say buy. Saying a contrarian point of view is what sells news.
 
KB said:
I visit marketwatch.com periodically and I noticed that whatever the market is doing, they will have articles telling you to do the opposite. Markets up, the articles say sell, markets falling, they say buy. Saying a contrarian point of view is what sells news.
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Too true. I also noticed that with them.

That site is a heavily weighted wall of worry. :biggrin:
 
Fed meeting minutes came out around 2pm and caused a rally... something about a rate hike still being in line for this year -- lulz, ya, that's what you've been saying for over a year, and I believed you. Useless.
 
Imp said:
Fed meeting minutes came out around 2pm and caused a rally... something about a rate hike still being in line for this year -- lulz, ya, that's what you've been saying for over a year, and I believed you. Useless.
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yeah, can't really get a read on anything

no September rate hike, markets tumble

low September job #s, markets rally

Fed says they plan to still raise rates before end of year, markets rally
 
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