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Buy and Hold is Dead

Avoid the Next Bear Market and Ride the Next Bull Up “This is a trader’s market. It is not time to buy and hold large indexes or high-beta stocks and expect to be made whole over the next ten years. Hope is not a strategy. But waiting for the “shoe to drop” is frustrating, I [...]

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Jim Rohrbach’s RIX Index Explained

I am sure you realize that what goes into the RIX Index is proprietary.  I will tell you this.  Each day I mathematically calculate a number that represents the trend of the market for that day.  The metric is cumulative so you will be able to see the trend developing.  I do this for the [...]

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Example: RIX Weekly Newsletter

Below is an example of our weekly newsletter. 8-13-10 RIX Newsletter Recent Signals 7-13-10 NYSE Buy Signal 8-11-10 Nasdaq Sell Signal How to interpret RIX Numbers NYSE RIX +12.0 Buy Signal -12.0 Sell Signal NASDAQ RIX  +6.0 Buy Signal -6.0 Sell Signal It’s that simple. The NYSE RIX The NYSE RIX has been on a [...]

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The 2009 Market Is A Mirror Image of the 2003 Market

For several months I have been saying that the 2009 Stock Market is acting like a Mirror Image of the 2003 Market.  It’s very interesting that investors and “market experts” are saying and doing the same things they did in 2003.  In hindsight we can see that the March lows in both those years created [...]

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Why Investors Buy High and Sell Low

I talk to a lot of people about investing.  Many of them are afraid to invest.  I don’t think they recognize their fears, but the longer they talk the more I recognize the fears that are not obvious to them.  I had a few of those conversations this week.  One was from an existing subscriber [...]

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The Market Is What It Is

The recent bear market should have convinced investors that they have to monitor and take control of their investments.  They learned that it’s not safe to turn their portfolio over to an expert and then rely that they won’t lose a big chunk of their life savings in a bear market.  So what is their [...]

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