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Smart Investing Daily – Protection

Two Ways to Protect Your Retirement Portfolio In a Down Market Jared Levy, Editor, Smart Investing Daily Wednesday, September 01, 2010   One of the oldest methods of protecting your retirement money is by spreading risk out among different stocks and sectors. While this may be a partially effective way of mitigating the risk of Smart Investing Daily – Protection

From Smart Investing Daily – An Easy Way to Buy Real Gold in Your Brokerage Account

An Easy Way to Buy Real Gold in Your Brokerage Account Written by Jared Levy, Editor, Smart Investing Daily    Friday, August 13, 2010 11:46 The second week of August is proving to be a volatile one for the equity markets. After the Federal Reserve’s extremely unexciting intention to begin using the proceeds from maturing From Smart Investing Daily – An Easy Way to Buy Real Gold in Your Brokerage Account

A Technical Look Moving into Next Week

by Jared A Levy The Federal Reserve partially confirmed Tuesday what we already knew (with respect to the state of our economy) and failed to change interest rates.  Ben Bernanke et. al. did, however, state their intentions to begin using the proceeds from maturing mortgage bonds acquired during the crisis to keep its holdings of A Technical Look Moving into Next Week

Reversion to the Mean

by Jared Levy on July 8, 2010 One of my favorite things to do is observe and sometimes laugh as market pundits (and sometimes that includes me) attempt to explain the reasons why the market does what it does.  I woke up Thursday morning to S&P futures again moving higher by seven points and 10-year Reversion to the Mean

Here Come the Earnings…

by Jared Levy on June 16, 2010 It’s the broken record that we traders love to play again and again.  While the process is the same, the outcome is almost always different.  Earnings season is often a catalyst for change in a stock’s direction, volatility, and even sentiment.   It can also simply accelerate a trajectory Here Come the Earnings…