Month: February 2010

This Week’s TDI Podcast Guest: Harry Dent

This week on The Disciplined Investor Podcast, we are bringing back a favorite of listener’s, Harry Dent.

I will be interested to know his opinion on the direction of the economy as well as his prediction for the coming Depression (his word not mine).

Make sure to tune...

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S&P 500 Chart – Fear/Greed Indicator and The Trender

Bloomberg Professional has a few very interesting built-in charting features. Two that can help to quickly discern the direction and sentiment are the Fear/Greed Indicator and the Trender.

The top portion of the chart shows the Bloomberg Trender and the RED indicates that the direction is obviously down. Overhead resistance at...

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Retail Sales Charts – A Bright Spot in a Dark Room

Retail sales continue to see better than expected reports. Consumers are definitely feeling a little better after the 2009 Armageddon warnings have been lifted.

For the most part, retailers have been reporting that they are using extreme measures to bring in customers in order to provide the sales. Interestingly, the high...

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Initial and Continuing Claims: Snow Job or No Job?

On the Economic front, there was some good news from the initial claims release that was taken well by investors for about 2 minutes. Then they turned away as they considered that some of the benefit to this week’s number may have been from the inability for claims...

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