I put my money where my mouth is and bought DBA, the agricultural commodity ETF which trades on the NYSE. The index is composed of futures contracts on some of the most liquid and widely traded agricultural commodities such as corn, wheat, soy beans and sugar. I feel there is still some value left in these relative to the rest of the market [...]
I want to take step back and talk about the very basics. Investing is one means to wealth preservation but savings and spending is yet another. Whatever your circumstance I can think of several cardinal steps in order of priority that must be part of your personal financial plan. [...]
Today was a completely brutal day for the stock market. Particularly financials, they were hit the hardest. It’s interesting to see how psychology plays such a big role in the stock market. The ISM and Home Sales reports came out today — both better than expected. You’d expect stocks to rise because there’s more evidence that the economy is improving. Not so! [...]
Stocks performed poorly today, with the Dow Jones index down 47 points at 9,496 but off the lows of the day. There’s been a lot of talk about how September is generally a very poor month for the Stock Market, historically. I know that Anand wrote on his previous post that he feels stocks will take a dive of 5% to 10% soon. I don’t completely agree with him on that [...]
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