http://www.beatingbuffett.com Classic Value Investing with an Equity Option Twist Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:29:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2609 http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2609#comments Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:15:10 +0000 paul price http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2609 “The U.S. economy remains almost comatose… The current slump already ranks as the longest period of sustained weakness since the Great Depression… Once in a lifetime dislocations… will take years to work out. Among them: the job drought, the debt hangover, the defense industry contraction, the banking collapse, the real estate depression, the health care [...]]]> http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?feed=rss2&p=2609 http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2603 http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2603#comments Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:49:10 +0000 paul price http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2603 Worldwide Results for the week ended Sep. 3, 2010… ]]> http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?feed=rss2&p=2603 http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2597 http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2597#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:41:24 +0000 paul price http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2597 ]]> http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?feed=rss2&p=2597 http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2595 http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2595#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:53:43 +0000 paul price http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2595 IIG closed yesterday at $4.14 and the CEO has continued to buy in large dollar amounts since my August 19th write-up when it was $3.60 /share. IIG   MIHAYLO STEVEN G CEO, 10% Owner 2010-09-03 Buy 32000 $3.94 $126,100        ]]> http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?feed=rss2&p=2595 http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2589 http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2589#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:48:36 +0000 paul price http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2589 The stocks that did worst in the August downturn Did best in early September. Bespoke Investment Group found that the worst performing stocks in the Aug. 9 – Aug. 31 decline showed a 100% reversal by decile rankings as the market surged to begin September.   This was also true on an individual stock basis as noted by [...]]]> http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?feed=rss2&p=2589 http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2585 http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2585#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:38:50 +0000 paul price http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2585 ]]> http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?feed=rss2&p=2585 http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2582 http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2582#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:54:57 +0000 paul price http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2582 Bespoke Investment Group correctly noted that the S&P 500 broke above its 50-day moving average yesterday. They predict that many technical analysis fans will now rush to buy based on this factor alone. It should be pointed out that similar broaching of the 50-day MA occurred in early May and late July just in time to [...]]]> http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?feed=rss2&p=2582 http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2577 http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2577#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:14:48 +0000 paul price http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2577 For seventeen straight weeks ‘mom and pop’ investors have been heading for the hills when it came to equity based mutual funds. They’ve withdrawn huge amounts ever since the market peaked in late April and accelerated their pace after the ‘flash crash’.   Particularly noteworthy is the fact that even as retail investors have been exiting [...]]]> http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?feed=rss2&p=2577 http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2573 http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2573#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:30:48 +0000 paul price http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2573 Just one week after posting the most Bearish optinions since March 9, 2009 the AAIA survey shows much more bullish/less bearish readings. Nothing like a 255 point up day in the DJIA to sway people’s attitudes. ]]> http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?feed=rss2&p=2573 http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2569 http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2569#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:26:29 +0000 paul price http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?p=2569 Eddy Elfenbein’s Crossing Wall Street listed some interesting statistics concering the behavior of the DJIA from Mid-term election years through Presidential election years… September 1, 2010 A Look at the Mid-Term Rally The stock market has historically done very well from its low point during a mid-term election year to the high point during a presidential [...]]]> http://www.beatingbuffett.com/?feed=rss2&p=2569