http://www.hedgefolios.com/read Helping equity investors build and manage their own portfolios in bullish or bearish markets Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:21:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The past few days have exposed how absurd our market can get. And I don't see that going away ... only getting worse ... as we face the next two days of endless discussions on what the Fed will do tomorrow as Ben Bernanke ends his first FOMC meeting. ... http://www.hedgefolios.com/read/one-and-undone The ANALYZE - STOCKS section allows you to review the fundamental and technical statistics of stocks in the Hedgefolios universe. Throughout the rest of the site, Hedgefolios focuses on generic terms for the criteria that most investors use to define their investing preferences. However, many investors want to ... http://www.hedgefolios.com/read/analyze-stocks Periodically, I take a look at the stats for combined NYSE and NASD margin debt to get a feel for how investors are handling risk. In bull markets, those that are not debt averse cannot get enough margin debt to fuel their purchases and brokerage firms love the extra ... http://www.hedgefolios.com/read/margin-party To me, a lot of talk about the housing bubble is just fearmongering hype. I am not saying that it's not a threat, but I don't believe it's an imminent danger that will precipitate a sudden decline in the market. Sometimes I see the discussion as a partial ... http://www.hedgefolios.com/read/bubble-bubble-toil-and-trouble I don't like being wrong, but it's part of investing reality. Being wrong is easy, but admitting when you are wrong is tough. I'll get this out of the way - my signals are wrong some of the time. Over the three years that I have ... http://www.hedgefolios.com/read/wrongo Last week, I didn't want to come off sounding like Chicken Little, but there was some serious damage done to a lot of stocks, and it was very broad-based. It spanned all sectors, caps and styles, and it really looked like the market was running out of gas. ... http://www.hedgefolios.com/read/the-sky-is-not-falling-the-sky-is-not-falling-yet If you want to study an individual stock or ETF, go to the PROFILE section or from anywhere else on the site, just click on a symbol and it will automatically take you to PROFILE. For your convenience, you'll find all the Hedgefolios information on that stock without having ... http://www.hedgefolios.com/read/profile In light of Capital One's (COF) $14.6 billion purchase of North Fork Bancorp (NFB), I took a look at the small and mid cap regional banks today to see what ripple effects the acquisition was having. Note that Hedgefolios had both COF and NFB as Up signals before the ... http://www.hedgefolios.com/read/can-you-bank-on-it If your time for portfolio management is limited, use the MY FOLIO section of Hedgefolios to rapidly make sure your stocks are moving in the right direction. Similar to a portfolio tracker, MY FOLIO allows you to watch up to 30 stocks that are on your trading radar ... http://www.hedgefolios.com/read/my-folio The Hedgefolios fundamental and price data are updated periodically, but not always on the same date. On the top right corner of search results in EVALAUATE and MANAGE you will see "data current as of:" and then a date. Whenever you switch between the Fundamental View and ... http://www.hedgefolios.com/read/data-current-as-of