October 01, 2009 –
The S&P maintains a nice spreadsheet of the index and earnings over the past 20 years or so. See here:
www2.standardandpoors.com/spf/xls/index/SP500EPSEST.XLS [more]
September 27, 2009 –
I recently came back from a nearly 3-week vacation in the Iberian Peninsula and was somewhat surprised that the market continued to ramp up higher while I was away. Although I wasn’t expecting financial Armageddon that bloggers like Alstry and GMX were predicting I was still thinking we would have gotten some type of pullback by now. I believe determining the direction of the market is nearly as important as picking the right stocks when investing with REAL money. After all – even some of the best companies will see their share prices go down in a down market. That’s why I decided to gleen some wisdom from some of the top CAPS players. [more]
July 15, 2009 –
I see a lot of posts on the bearish side - it's time for a more positive post to talk about what's going right in this market. [more]
October 28, 2008 –
After experimenting with the Motley Fool CAPS - I have come to the conclusion that it is much easier to find stocks that underpeform the market rather than outperform. Some of the most successful people on here continually short dozens of small caps with hopeless prospects. Stocks which are almost guaranteed to underperform the market. [more]
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