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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Richard Shaw ( QVM Group ) submits: We generally prefer investment funds over individual stocks to minimize investment selection risk (focusing more on asset allocation as the greater issue). However, when we do look at individual stocks, we focus on quality companies with financial strength, limited leverage, solid cash flow, and growing sales and dividends. This short list consists...
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Richard Shaw ( QVM Group ) submits: One big investment risk is subscribing to a popular mantra with your life’s savings, without continuously checking the data — the facts — to make sure the mantra continues to make sense. The “China up” and “U.S. down” theme is a major current mantra. There are plenty of very bright, well informed, high profile...
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Richard Shaw ( QVM Group ) submits: National healthcare wherever it is implemented squeezes prices and profits of the private businesses involved in the system. Obamacare in the U.S. will be no different. For investors in healthcare companies, it is a good idea to begin to think through which companies will be most severely negatively impacted or least impacted, to potentially make deletions...
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SeekingAlpha ETFs (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Richard Shaw ( QVM Group ) submits: There are many good things about being rich, but wealth also brings some problems. The most obvious problem is how to stay rich in these troubled times. Less obvious for the wealthy, is the fact that they have fewer practical investment vehicles than the average investor. Just as large institutional investors have a smaller universe of individual stocks...
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Richard Shaw ( QVM Group ) submits: These two charts present the monthly and daily percentage price changes in the S&P 500 from January 1950 through the most recent period in 2009, roughly 60 years. After the exceptional experiences of the past year, a long-term look back may be helpful. Of course, we are in a different environment than the U.S. has seen since 1950, and the U.S....
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republik of mancunia (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
... career: Palace had set out to disturb United’s usual rhythm, and largely succeeded. Defender RIchard Shaw (who was voted Palace’s ‘player of the year’ at the end of the season) had been given the task of shadowing Eric Cantona, and was acquitting himself well, much to Eric’s annoyance, as the game’s referee, Alan Wilkie, seemed to turn a blind eye to the crafty knocks Shaw...
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SeekingAlpha Energy Stocks (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Richard Shaw ( QVM Group ) submits: We don't know if the furor over climate, economic and sovereignty issues coming to a head over the impending December Copenhagen climate treaty is correct, incorrect, exaggerated or spot-on. Obama on Cost Impact of Climate Policies (March 18, 2009): Complete Story »
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Richard Shaw ( QVM Group ) submits: The CBOE publishes several options implied volatility indexes that can be helpful to stock investors who want to peek around the corner to the future through the eyes of options traders. These two tables show the options implied (30-day future) volatility for several important indexes or index funds: Complete Story »
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Richard Shaw ( QVM Group ) submits: This is a practical follow-up to our recent article on volume as an indicator, and on divergence between volume and price action in particular. We screened the S&P 1500 for stocks with rising prices and falling volumes. More specifically, we looked for stocks with “sinker” attributes: Complete Story »
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Richard Shaw ( QVM Group ) submits: The S&P 500 index has an 80% probability of ending 2009 between the low 970’s and 1150 to 1170. Historical volatility for the past three months would suggest 971 to 1151 for 80% probability, while implied volatility in the 3-month CBOE volatility index would suggest about 974 to about 1172. In our last article , we continued the discussion...
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SeekingAlpha ETFs (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Richard Shaw ( QVM Group ) submits: Last week we published a visual view of price range probability cones for several securities ( SPY , FXI , TLT and UUP ). This article builds on the concepts in that article and provides a tabular view of the same kind of data for twenty-seven asset categories. The two tables below show the maximum and minimum price change that statistics would suggest...
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
... the man's name and claimed he was "innocent of all crimes," Drolc said. Sun Advocate publisher Richard Shaw said the note also implied the newspaper was the "sons of the devil." Drolc said the man appears to suffer from mental illness and there's no indication he targeted the Sun Advocate for anything it published. Criminal charges have not yet been filed. Shaw said he and...
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Richard Shaw ( QVM Group ) submits: There is no way to realistically make a precise price prediction for a particular date for a traded security. It is possible, however, to observe the recent historical volatility (standard deviation) of a security to make realistic estimates of the probable range within which the security price may close through a future date. In this article, we provide...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
... presented at the National Cancer Research Institute's (NCRI) Cancer Conference in Birmingham. Mr Richard Shaw, from the School of Cancer Studies, explains: "Recent evidence demonstrates the possible involvement of HPV in the development of tonsil cancer, particularly in non-smokers. Interestingly, the treatment efficiency of chemotherapy and radiation, seems to differ between HPV...
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SeekingAlpha ETFs (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Richard Shaw ( QVM Group ) submits: It can be useful to know how the average other guy is allocating assets, whether you are inclined to follow the crowd or to do something else. Asset Allocation Among Public Investment Funds: Complete Story »
