Random Rogers Big Picture
This is a stock market blog about portfolio management,foreign stocks, exchange traded funds and the occasional musing about my wildland firefighting experiences. The point here is to share process.
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Posted 16 hours ago
I was quite public about my sale of Bank of America (BAC) in the low $29's because of my lack of faith in the merger with Merrill Lynch.I was right for a minute or two, then I was wrong when they
Posted 18 hours ago
So I was trolling the Glintir Bank website (the same Glitnir that was saved by the government of Iceland) and found an index for fishery stocks, most of which are Norwegian. There's almost enough Norw
Tags: study
Posted 1 day ago
Literally!I did not take this picture.We have had more mountain lions here lately than normal. One was sighted last night very close to our house.If you live in the woods and feed deer you will attrac
Posted 1 day ago
No not the market, well maybe that, but also this...I had to coral this guy in the dog pen. Our dog Trixie first found him and called our attention to him.The comments have backed up, I have been busy
Posted 1 day ago
FT Alphaville has this quote by Jim Cramer that I am guessing is from the Today Show;Whatever money you may need for the next five years, please take it out of the stock market right now, this week. I
Posted 1 day ago
I hadn't thought about it this way until I read this article in the NY Times but the S&P 500 is down 25% YTD. In the video over the weekend the focus was obviously quarter end but after a down 9% week
Tags: demand
Posted 2 days ago
Ok, Joellyn and I figured it all out last night. We are selling everything, putting it in to Swiss francs and moving to a farm in New Zealand. We'll eat what we grow and our money will be sound.Well,
Tags: trading
Posted 3 days ago
This from Barron's; Basically, what happened is that the liquidity has gone out of the bond market, says Daniel J. Fuss, co-manager of the Loomis Sayles Bond Fund (LBFAX), which was down 13.19% in th
Posted 4 days ago
No one expects the bailout legislation to solve anything but could it bring less frenetic trading?Could the manic trading be over? I hope this is the case, anyway. This wouldn't have to be a bottom ca
Tags: legislation trading
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