Bridgewater Off….

From New York Post Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge-fund firm, with $120 billion in assets, has hit a rough patch. After leaving its rivals in the dust for the past two years with mouth-watering double-digit returns, Bridgewater is now trailing them. Its flagship fund, Pure Alpha, fell 2.7 percent in 2012’s first…

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Analysts

Wall Street relies on “stock analysts.” These are people who do research on companies and then, no matter what they find, even if the company has burned to the ground, enthusiastically recommend that investors buy the stock. They are just a bunch of cockeyed optimists, those stock analysts. When the Titanic was in its death…

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XJO Context

I thought I would post two versions of my XJO context file. This is the longer term view – as you can see a very ordinary congesting market that has been range trading for close to a year. This is the context view compressed and I wanted to talk about signals within this chop. The…

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Its Friday

Walmart is a uniquely American experience. However, I am certain that not paying enough attention at school would lead to the same life outcomes here. If you have a little bloke not paying attention at school simply show them this as an example of what awaits them in the future.

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