The Forgotten Flash Crash - One Year later

  Originally posted http://www.tothetick.com/the-biggest-market-sell-offs-in-history

My debate last week with Gordon Chang on China’s future at the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference was a stimulating, intellectual exercise. A healthy market needs a compromise between the bid and ask, and a discussion between people who strongly disagree is a great way to promote critical thinking.

My debate last week with Gordon Chang on China’s future at the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference was a stimulating, intellectual exercise. A healthy market needs a compromise between the bid and ask, and a discussion between people who strongly disagree is a great way to promote critical thinking. Critical thinking is vital to our investment process as a means to ensure that we question assumptions. One way our portfolio management team practices a critical-thinking process is through a weekly S.W.O.T.

Republicans have ridden the candidate carousel over the past few months but eventually one GOP contender will emerge to face President Obama in the much anticipated 2012 Presidential Election. As political experts predict a democratic or republican win, another group of pundits, market experts, will guess on how stocks will perform in 2012.

By Vatalyst: Dividend stocks are gaining traction in today’s market because of the appallingly low yields available in traditional investment vehicles like Certificates of Deposit, Treasury Bills, etc. I am in no way implying that the safety of an investment in dividend stock is on a par with Certificates of Deposit or Treasury Bills. Any investor would agree that the degree of risk is greater with stock.

Gary Gordon submits: Turmoil in Egypt set the markets back for a single day on 1/28/11. In fact, since the Egypt crisis mummified equities, the Dow Jones Industrials Diamonds Trust (DIA) has embarked on a seven-day winning streak.