http://www.hedgefolios.com/read Helping equity investors build and manage their own portfolios in bullish or bearish markets Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:50:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week, 95% of all 3094 stocks I cover with HEDGEfolios had UP signals.   That level has never happened in over 5 years of HEDGEfolios...it is not sustainable...it is OVER. I am beginning to move in the other direction. Be very careful with your portfolios.   The majority of the market is ... http://www.hedgefolios.com/read/beware-the-ides-of-march On February 18th, 2010 I finished my last post with this line.... My projection for the S&P 500 Index is 1151 within the next 20 trading days. It took 16 days to have a print at 1151. Some comments I have gotten suggested that it was a lucky guess.   It wasn't ... http://www.hedgefolios.com/read/index-projections Currently, HEDGEfolios covers 3104 stocks and 93% have UP signals.  The previous record high reading was 88% on January 5, 2009. Of the 2884 UP signals, 2599 have been given in the past 4 weeks.  Meanwhile, of the 220 DOWN signals, 162 were given in the past 4 weeks. Four weeks ago, ... http://www.hedgefolios.com/read/uncharted-territory In light of President Obama's attempt to separate some of the investment banking operations from "banks" that get government funding, bailouts and deposit protection, I encourage you to read something of mine from June of 2008. PDCF vs. Regulation ….take your pick. The Fed and the Treasury and influential ... http://www.hedgefolios.com/read/not-a-glass-steagall In May of 2007, before the financial crisis began, I wrote a post called Newbies.   I'd like you to read it (or re-read it). When this market finally takes a turn for the worst, where will your money be? Most likely it will be with a “Newbie.” I know most money ... http://www.hedgefolios.com/read/negligence Over the past 10 months, there have been numerous times where stocks and the S&P 500 index finally start to take a dip.    And then, out of nowhere, the selling stops...on a dime without any substantial fundamental or technical reason and we have a sharp reversal to new highs.   I ... http://www.hedgefolios.com/read/cessation-on-the-dips I have decided upon 301 stocks to add to coverage and about 350 to delete.   Almost all of the additions are in excess of $500 million in market cap and if you ever find that I do not cover a US headquartered stock that exceeds that limit, please send me ... http://www.hedgefolios.com/read/adds-and-deletes Very few really tough questions are ever asked of the Federal Reserve and the Treasury.   Apparently, Bernanke and Geithner feel they only have to answer to the President and Congress.   We are not privy to questions the President might ask them and I don't feel we should be entitled to ... http://www.hedgefolios.com/read/mbs-questions Rather than shutting down HEDGEfolios at the start of 2010 (tomorrow) as I had planned, I have decided to keep it open for a bit with a few major changes that will reduce the quality of the site. I am no longer committed to publishing the signal changes for each week ... http://www.hedgefolios.com/read/hobbyfolios HEDGEfolios stock performance for 2009 (through 12/31/09 close) was up 94.89%. Over the same time period, the S&P 500 index was up 23.49%. At the end of December, the HEDGEfolios universe consisted of 3,090 stocks. Commentary:  I will post a final review of HEDGEfolios performance in the next few days.  Good luck with ... http://www.hedgefolios.com/read/performance-through-december-31-2009