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  • Position Sizing: Key to Maximizing Returns

    In a time when market volatility and equity preservation is of utmost importance, determining the correct number of shares to buy, or “position sizing”, is key to maximizing returns and minimizing risk. The common investor generally doesn’t spend much time thinking about how many shares to buy or how significant of a position to take. …

  • Bill Gross: Prepare for ‘disharmony’

    By Bill Gross – Originally published at Investment News:  The following is the commentary of Bill Gross, managing director and co-CIO at Pimco, for the month of September. For a complete archive of his commentaries, click here. “Just an old-fashioned love song, comin’ down in three-part harmony.” –Three Dog Night In many ways the global…

  • PIMCO’s El-Erian Warns U.S. Rating at Risk, Even With Debt Ceiling Deal

    SmartStops comment:  Investing in today’s 21st century markets demands dynamic, intelligent risk management.  Economic impacts to governmental policies and published economic numbers are fluid.  No longer is it sufficient to just allocate amongst your holdings based on beta.  originally published  by AdvisorOne, by Melanie Waddell July 25, 2011 As negotiations on a debt-ceiling deal broke…

  • Nouriel Roubini issues ‘perfect storm’ warning for stocks

    SmartStops commentary:   There are critics of his calls, but Roubini in July 2006 predicted a “catastrophic” global financial meltdown that central bankers would be unable to prevent. The collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in 2008 sparked turmoil that led to the worst financial crisis since the 1930s.   Of course predicting the markets future is challenging to say…

  • 5 ETFs To Watch As China Grows

    Despite a series of tightening monetary measures in 2010, China’s economy grew by an astonishing 9.8 percent in the fourth quarter pushing it ahead of Japan as the world’s second largest economy, while fueling concerns that more needs to be done to fight inflation. According to Aaron Back and Jason Dean at the Wall Street…

  • 4 ETFs Impacted By China’s Bank Reserve Requirements

    In an attempt to ease concerns and fears that rising inflation could damper economic growth, China raised bank reserve requirements for the third time in the last five weeks, influencing the Global X Financials ETF (CHIX), the iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Fund (FXI), the SPDR S&P China ETF (GXC) and the Guggenheim China All-Cap…

  • Four ETFs To Watch As China Fights Inflation

    As inflationary concerns continue to loom in China, the nation’s government is making moves to curb to fight this rise in prices, which could potentially influence the iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Fund (FXI), the Global X China Financials ETF (CHIX), the SPDR S&P China ETF (GXC) and the Claymore/AlphaShares China All-Cap ETF (YAO). In…

  • Two ETFs Likely To Be Influenced By G20 Meeting

    At the recent G20 meeting in South Korea, the Group of 20 finance chiefs agreed to move towards a more market-determined exchange-rate system that reflects underlying economic fundamentals and refrain from competitive devaluation of currencies, potentially impacting the Market Vectors Chinese Renminbi/USD ETN (CNY), the WisdomTree Dreyfus Chinese Yuan Fund (CYB). China’s successful economy has…

  • Asia Could Boost Solar ETFs

    Nearly five months ago, the Asian Development Bank started a major drive to promote the use of solar power throughout the continent which could eventually lead to positive price support in the Guggenheim Solar ETF (TAN) and the Market Vectors Solar Energy ETF (KWT). Under this initiative, the Asian Development Bank aims to put in…

  • Three ETFs Influenced By Chinese Real Estate

    As China continues to witness exponential economic growth, its real estate sector is following and the Chinese government is taking measures to curb the real estate boom potentially influencing the Guggenheim China Real Estate (TAO), the iShares FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Dev Asia Idx (IFAS) and the Guggenheim China All-Cap (YAO). China’s Finance Ministry recently announced that…