The Gong has Rung! At "A Dash" we are writing a blog about a book. Our principal mission is to highlight investment concepts that will help intelligent individual investors who decide to take control of their own portfolios. We try to show the challenges ... Go to Full Article

The Use and Abuse of Data: Two Excellent Commentaries In the current issue of Barron's Mike Santoli has some special insight for those trying to interpret the many historical analogies making the rounds. He writes:. ? Every time the US unemployment rate has risen by at least 0.3% in a ... ...

Investors Get a Look at the Future Today's trading provided a rare opportunity -- a look into the future. The Fed action, as we expected, showed determination to fight recession prospects in an aggressive fashion. The FOMC is attentive both to the current economy and to ... Go to Full...

New Year's Resolution: Understand that Action Requires Confidence Most individual investors make a major mistake: Looking for a "hot hand." They spend a lot of time and money chasing last year's (or last month's!) performance. Quite frankly, this is also the attitude of many top Fund of Fund...

Three Common Mistakes in Interpreting the Employment Report There are three things that nearly everyone does wrong in the monthly discussion of the employment report. The first two are comments I made earlier today on RealMoney. Forgetting that it is a survey. I am mystified by the apparent...

Happiness Can Work (at work) How about buying stock in your employer, so that you'll not only be working for them, but working like a shareholder - striving for that value. How about it? I've been thinking of doing so, but I'm not wholly convinced. ... Go to Full Article

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Intraday Action So Far ? Gap Fade and Pivots As we slide into the mid-day doldrums, I thought it would be interesting to look at the action in the DIA (Dow Jones ETF) so far to see some educational and trading opportunities in the price action so far. ... Go to Full Article

Top & Bottom Ranked Industry Groups It's hard to stay number #1 unless your name is Tiger Woods. Looking over the IBD industry groups last night, I continue to be amazed by the strength of the chemicals/fertilizers group over the various different time frames - right now, ... Go to Full...

Technical Analysis with Bulkowski Next week at the members' only website we will be doing a special Q&A with technical analysis expert Thomas Bulkowski. Over the years, I have linked to his website many times and have also recommend several of his books on technical ... Go to Full Article

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Site Update: Print Feature Improved Thanks to reader Dave Butcher, who recently worked with me to enhance the blogsite, you will now be able to print directly from the blog in a more professional format. When you enjoy an article and want to print the article for your ... Go to Full...

Thursday links: managerial overconfidence Please note that Abnormal Returns will be on hiatus the rest of the week. We apologize for any inconvenience. Neuroeconomics hits Wall Street and finds that ?the riskier the trades get, the more the brain craves them.? (NYTimes.com) ... Go to...

Can we STOP with the Predictions? Too many talking heads and so-called market experts continue to make predictions on the market, the economy and the general direction of this country (and the world for that matter). I can?t stand predictions (except for Plaxico ... Go to Full Article