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| The Stingy News Weekly: July 19, 2014 |
| 07/19/14 6:00 PM EST Permlink | SNW |
| I'm pleased to present our free letter for the week ended July 19, 2014 |
| More SNW: The Stingy News Weekly: July 12, 2014 |
| The Stingy News Weekly: July 5, 2014 |
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| Why the M-B test is meaningless |
| 07/19/14 5:54 PM EST Permlink | Behaviour |
| "This isn't a test designed to accurately categorize people, but a test designed to make them feel happy after taking it. This is one of the reasons why it's persisted for so many years in the corporate world, despite being disregarded by psychologists." |
| More Behaviour: Moral behavior in animals |
| Portfolio tracking is for losers |
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| The importance of being solvent |
| 07/19/14 5:24 PM ESt Permlink | Thrift |
| "What is wealth? To me, it isn't a particular sum of money. Rather, it's the freedom to spend your days doing what you're passionate about and what you think is important." |
| More Thrift: Tiny houses for economic freedom |
| When the messenger is worth shooting |
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| Technical market indicators |
| 07/18/14 9:40 PM EST Permlink | Markets |
| "Current evidence on the predictability of technical analysis largely concentrates on price-based technical indicators such as moving averages rules and trading range breakout rules. In contrast, the predictability of widely used technical market indicators such as advance/decline lines, volatility indices, and short-term trading indices has drawn limited attention. Although some market indicators have also become popular sentiment proxies in the behavioral finance field to predict returns, the results generally rely on using just one or a few indicators at a time. This approach raises the risk of data snooping, since so many proxies are proposed. We review and examine the profitability of a wide range of 93 market indicators. We give these technical market indicators the benefit of the doubt, but even then we find little evidence that they predict stock market returns. This conclusion continuously holds even if we allow predictability to be state dependent on business cycles or sentiment regimes." |
| More Markets: Booming until it hurts? |
| U.S. stocks will be very disappointing |
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| Booming until it hurts? |
| 07/18/14 9:39 PM EST Permlink | Markets |
| "Those who warn of grave dangers if speculative price increases are allowed to continue unimpeded are right to do so, even if they cannot prove that there is any cause for concern. The warnings might help prevent the booms that we are now seeing from continuing much longer and becoming more dangerous." |
| More Markets: U.S. stocks will be very disappointing |
| Never buy expensive stocks. Period. |
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| The FBI pump-and-dump scam |
| 07/18/14 9:36 PM EST Permlink | Crime |
| "So the main lesson here is, if you want to run a pump-and-dump scam, the FBI is not a great partner. That or "just don't run a pump-and-dump scam," I guess, take your pick. There are other lessons, though. One is how strangely close this all was to being legal." |
| More Crime: Cynk and short selling |
| Stock promoters make inroads |
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| The Stingy News Weekly: July 12, 2014 |
| 07/12/14 9:00 PM EST Permlink | SNW |
| I'm pleased to present our letter for the week ended July 12, 2014 |
| More SNW: The Stingy News Weekly: July 5, 2014 |
| The Stingy News Weekly: June 29, 2014 |
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| Cynk and short selling |
| 07/12/14 8:25 PM EST Permlink | Crime |
| "If you spot what you think is a penny stock pump-and-dump scam, don't short it! It might be a trap!" |
| More Crime: Stock promoters make inroads |
| Optimism and credibility of stock spam |
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| U.S. stocks will be very disappointing |
| 07/12/14 8:13 PM EST Permlink | Markets |
| "'I can say with high confidence that investors are going to get very disappointing returns from U.S. stocks over the coming 10 years,' says Rob Arnott, chairman of Research Affiliates" |
| More Markets: Never buy expensive stocks. Period. |
| Good businesses at good prices |
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| Why Canada isn't immune |
| 07/12/14 7:40 PM EST Permlink | Real Estate |
| "History has shown, time and again, that 'this time' is not different. We believe the same is true for the future of Canadian residential real estate." |
| More Real Estate: How much did your house cost? |
| Canada's mixed blessing |
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| Tiny houses for economic freedom |
| 07/12/14 7:33 PM EST Permlink | Thrift |
| "The 57-year-old schoolteacher's tiny house near Providence, Rhode Island, cost $28,000 - a seventh of the median price of single-family residences in his state." |
| More Thrift: When the messenger is worth shooting |
| Our number-one tax shelter |
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| Top 10 dogs of the TSX |
| 07/12/14 7:27 PM EST Permlink | Stingy Investing |
| "Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Value Hunter investment blog at MoneySense.ca. The focus of this blog will be on dividend investing and other conservative stock strategies. I hope it will help you become a better investor." |
| More Stingy Investing: Relative value in the TSX |
| Diversify with Warren Buffett |
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| Relative value in the TSX |
| 07/12/14 7:24 PM EST Permlink | Stingy Investing |
| "Thirty-one of the 60 stocks passed Mr. Graham's test at the end of 2008 when the financial system was in acute distress. But that number has been getting smaller and smaller ever since. This week, only six stocks passed the test." |
| More Stingy Investing: Diversify with Warren Buffett |
| Perils of too much information |
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| The Stingy News Weekly: July 5, 2014 |
| 07/05/14 9:35 PM EST Permlink | SNW |
| I'm pleased to present our letter for the week ended July 5, 2014 |
| More SNW: The Stingy News Weekly: June 29, 2014 |
| The Stingy News Weekly: June 20, 2014 |
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| Never buy expensive stocks. Period. |
| 07/05/14 9:25 PM EST Permlink | Markets |
| "One can't even simulate a scenario where a diversified portfolio of 30 expensive stocks can beat the worst performing portfolio of 30 cheap stocks. Why investors allocate to expensive, or "growth," stocks is beyond me." |
| More Markets: Good businesses at good prices |
| A critique of John Hussman's Ccart |
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| The board game of the alpha nerds |
| 07/05/14 9:20 PM EST Permlink | Fun |
| "If you've ever heard of Diplomacy, chances are you know it as 'the game that ruins friendships.' It's also likely you've never finished an entire game. That's because Diplomacy requires seven players and seven or eight hours to complete. Games played by postal mail, the way most played for the first 30 years of its existence, could take longer than a year to finish. Despite this, Diplomacy is one of the most popular strategic board games in history." |
| More Fun: Congress reluctant to cut |
| How to fail your way to success |
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| Good businesses at good prices |
| 07/05/14 9:18 PM EST Permlink | Markets |
| "Price-to-book is the least impressive value factor I've tested, and ROE is the least impressive measure of quality/profitability." |
| More Markets: A critique of John Hussman's Ccart |
| Overdiversification |
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| Addicted to zero |
| 07/05/14 9:13 PM EST Permlink | Government |
| "So tell me again why central bankers in North America feel they have to 'keep our economy going' by maintaining a zero-interest rate policy." |
| More Government: Why was Canada exempt from the financial crisis? |
| Flinty-eyed fiscal conservatives |
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| The Stingy News Weekly: June 29, 2014 |
| 06/29/14 1:35 PM EST Permlink | SNW |
| I'm pleased to present our letter for the week ended June 29, 2014 |
| More SNW: The Stingy News Weekly: June 20, 2014 |
| The Stingy News Weekly |
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| Diversify with Warren Buffett |
| 06/29/14 1:24 PM EST Permlink | Stingy Investing |
| "Berkshire Hathaway represents an interesting option for cost-conscious investors who want to pick up a diversified collection of businesses in one handy package." |
| More Stingy Investing: Perils of too much information |
| How much can you safely withdraw? |
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| Value combo |
| 06/29/14 1:17 PM EST Permlink | Value Investing |
| "The attraction of the combo is that it delivers returns comparable to the very best metric at any point in time." |
| More Value Investing: Price to sales ratio backtest |
| Price to free cash flow ratio backtest |
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