Second, that investment will likely give me a rate of return that will beat out all the investment pros in Wall Street, Peter Schiff, Warren Buffett, and anybody else who has an impressive track record. If forecasting the investment markets was so easy then everyone would be rich and would have stopped doing it. In addition, until very recently, investors have been assuming that QE would last forever or, at least, until it started negatively impacting the Markets. A stock that has fallen 50% would have wiped out 100% of its gains in the past since returns are geometric. Trouble is, a lot of that capital has gone away in the market downdraft of the past two years. In trading/investing stocks, I don’t touch the profits, and all go back to trading/investing stocks for compounding effect; and the past profit also has the effect of offseting or cushioning against the current unrealized losses. Bottom line: yesterday’s economic news notwithstanding, I believe that the current excitement about future growth is misplaced. Yesterday’s economic releases were upbeat: June pending home sales and the July Dallas Fed manufacturing index were better than anticipated. Take your profits home. Take your profits off the table.

It is easy to see people make profits over a lengthy period of time, increasing their trading volume because of their account size, and give it all back in one bad trade. If you are going to focus on your goal of making returns, I would suggest in the beginning that you forget about reinvesting your profits or ideas of compound interest – these are greed-induced fantasies. Certainly, GLD is already pointing convincingly at higher interest rates and a stronger dollar. In other words, if the technicals are anticipating a fundamental move, we are could be looking at much bigger rise in rates than is current consensus. But if the current challenge is successful, there is only minor support 9 points lower with the first major support 30 points lower. Nonetheless, until the damage becomes manifest, the technical assumption remains that the indices are going to challenge their all-time highs. Finally, there are some strategies that investors use to further disguise a subject to sale, however, it is debatable whether these strategies are necessary. However, this is only a rule of thumb and there are many exceptions to the rule.

Most traders have a rule that says that one should never buy anything that is falling and hitting 52wk lows. What Synchro says should be kept in mind but that should not preclude one from investigating individual picks. So I can’t disprove Synchro for any of these stock picks. It’s kind of funny but I have the total opposite view from Synchro. I have no idea if his bets on Countrywide Financial, Yahoo, Pulte Homes, and so forth, will work out. I have no idea if any of my picks, or any of Bill Miller’s for that matter, will work out. This time around the order of magnitude of its easing effort (QE) was so much larger than on any previous occasion, I assume that the ‘hammering’ will be commensurate. So the markets become efficient bcos there are lots of participants taking out the inefficiencies all the time. The lemons problem is also prevalent in financial sector areas, including insurance and credit markets.

The problem is that historically the Fed has never, ever successfully transitioned from easy to normal monetary policy and one of the result has been that Markets got hammered. I can understand one “second-guessing” a 20% or 30% drop. Any value investor or contrarian investor can end up catching a falling knife or falling into a value trap, but a mistake with these deep-value investments is like falling into a pit filled with spikes. I remember reading on some message board that deep value investing is the hardest technique out there. While it’s believed that compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe, the concept rarely translates well to the world of leveraged investing. Well, I think many of these beaten-down stocks are junk and the underlying companies may end up near-worthless as well. Helping the recovery process will infuse an area of the country with some much-needed hope and will bring you a profit as well.

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