Author: Vivian Lewis

Two readers asked the same question from Atlanta and Albuquerque. One wrote: Picking so many stocks means you’re just trying to get lucky and hit a few big winners. It reminds me of playing roulette, hardly a science....

  Today is the first anniversary of the bottom of the global stock markets on March 9, 2009. Here is what I wrote that day: The main optimistic view is that because the U.S. was first into the mess, it will be first out....

Today we did some trading. We sold Stada Arzneimittel (STDAF) at $39.35/sh and also EZU at $35.51/sh. I had not noted that we also got a 2.941% dividend on that ETF last year which enhances our return.Full content is available...

Today’s newsletter is a new departure. We run for paid subscribers a pair of article by… paid subscribers, each about his or her favorite stock in the Global Investing universe which we have not written about yet....

Here is my final rebuttal to Tom McClellan’s taste for charting. It is a news item from today’s Bloomberg about a Singapore gambling stock: Genting Singapore Plc, the worst performing stock on the Straits Times Index...

Right of response was granted to Tom McClellan who emailed about my charts note yesterday: “1. You misstated my assertions about the meaning of the eurodollar COT data. It shows an important top due in mid-March, and not...

Today I wander through each chartist street to where the chartist pound does flow, with apologies to Blake. I am quoting a report on one of our hard-to follow stocks a subscriber sent me from a chartist service in Cambridge...

Here is the latest from Bill Gross, CEO of Pimco: He begins with the usual conundrum of sovereign debt rating ceilings. This means that a country, however badly managed, gets a higher or equal bond rating than the bonds of...