So What's the Problem with this Market?

2009-07-24T14:38:00.000-07:00

Who said there's a problem?

When you use Right-Brain investing, there is no problem!

All you need to do is look at what you see and describe it.

Here is a Point-and-Figure (P&F) chart of the S&P 500 Index:

This looks like an uptrend to me! And, to top it off - a break-out to a new high this week.

You can find all kinds of reasons in the news as to the problems there are with the market. I am better off just looking at the P&F chart and let the buyers and the sellers tell me what they are doing.....after all, they are the ones that determine the prices.

How about the foreign stock markets?

Let's have a look at the Europe, Australia and Far East Index (EAFE) in the form of an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) whose symbol is EFA:

Could this index be turning the corner as well? Looks like it to me!

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Investing with the Right Side of Your Brain

2009-06-10T11:21:00.000-07:00

When it comes to making investment decisions, why not use your entire brain?

There is data written about stocks, bonds, mutual funds, commodities and ETFs. All of this data such as earnings, dividends, debt-to-equity ratio, PE ratio, cash flow, gross margin, revenues is what is considered by the left side of your brain. It is that part of your brain that organizes, lists, analyses and verbalizes why you should make a particular investment.

Why not invest using the right side of your brain? This is where you apply your visual and intuitive senses. When you invest with the right side of your brain you are applying free association with no sense of time.

This is why I recommend the use of Point-and-Figure (P&F) charts when making investment decisions.

Look at this P&F chart of Crude Oil and ask yourself, does this look like an uptrend or a downtrend?

That's not so hard, is it?

So why did most people on Wall Street not tell you about this P&F chart, that is one of the representations of the stock market, last year?

Or perhaps a better question would be, in spite of what I was told, wouldn't my intuition tell me that the market was going down? Or, why didn't I do something about it, wasn't the downtrend obvious in 2007?

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So What's the Problem with this Market?

Investing with the Right Side of Your Brain