Finance

EC Why Gold Is

Despite the junior resource sector being near a major bottom and going through a bear market of epic proportions, I still believe that this may be one of the best times to add to quality positions. Nothing perfects one’s craft in the financial markets like a bear market.  In a bear market one has to…

Gold Jumps Up By More Than $50

The “No” in the Swiss referendum was seemingly the end for gold at first. First, the gold price went from $1,167 to a low of $1,143, but that is where it ended. It was not so surprising that the gold price dropped significantly at the end of last week, because trading is always quite thin…

Is Leverage And Issue?

“Davidson” submits: Here is the SP500 Intrinsic Value vs. SP500 again. Only ~5% over priced and housing and commercial construction AND financial inst lending have really not begun. So nowhere near the level of leverage which results in severe corrections. What others do is make comparisons to nonsensical patterns. The first is using an avg…

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The average return of our best scoring ADRs from 1-year ago (12/2/2013) returned 12.55% in the past year, with no turnover. That generated 1,197 bps of excess to the MSCI EAFE index. The best performers from our list last year include SIG up 72%, SHPG up 62%, IRS up 49%, RDY up 47%, and TTM up 42%. The average…

The 5 Best Small Caps

I wanted to find 5 good small caps with very consistent momentum. I used Barchart to sort the S&P 600 Small Cap Index stocks for the 5 with the most frequent new highs in the last month, ten used the Flipchart feature to review the charts. Today’s list includes: Tessera Technologies (NASDAQ:TSRA), Higher One Holdings (NYSE:ONE),  Kaiser Aluminum (NASDAQ:KALU),  Triquint…