TDI Podcast 99: S&P Racing to 500 or 1,000?

Mar 09, 2009

Guest: Charles Biderman, TrimTabs discusses why the S&P 500 may be dropping to 500 soon. At the same time, we pose the question: Is a dead cat bounce imminent? Listen in as both sides are discussed and opportunity knocks. Also, as TDI episode 100 approaches, we are asking that you send in your comments and tell us how you have become a Disciplined Investor.

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Charles Biderman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TrimTabs Investment Research. After earning his MBA from Harvard Business School, he began his career as Alan Abelson‘s assistant at Barron‘s from 1971 to 1973. There he predicted the collapse of real estate investment trusts (REITs). After Barron‘s, he worked in the Wall Street short selling community and recommended shorting REITs on their way to perdition.

Mr. Biderman is interviewed regularly on CNBC and Bloomberg and is quoted frequently in the financial media, including Barron‘s, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Investor‘s Business Daily. He is the author of TrimTabs Investing: Using Liquidity Theory to Beat the Stock Market (John Wiley & Sons, 2005). He holds a BA from Brooklyn College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Below are the charts discussed in the episode that provide some interesting ideas and anecdotal evidence that we could be seeing a rally, short-cover rally, dead cat bounce or something that will drive stock prices higher. In the mix are also some of the stocks making their ways to 52-week highs and lows.