OBGibby's Account Talk

[OBGibby]

Stocks This May Will Be A-OK

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[h=2]Don't let baseless historical patterns keep you from capturing the next leg of the recovery....."[/h]
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".....For all we know we're in a new secular bull market already....."

Read more: Why Stocks This May Will Be A-OK | Markets | Minyanville.com​

 

[Handballer]

Stocks This May Will Be A-OK

Okay!! I'm still in.

 

[OBGibby]

May Doesn't Have to Be Bad For the Market - Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch

 

[OBGibby]

Victor Davis Hanson: Regardless of Romney's economic plan, his election will most likely release a pent-up energy of the sort we have not seen in a long time. "Sitting Out Obama" 5/2/12

 

[Birchtree]

That read was sublime to the point of being purrfect. Thanx.

 

[OBGibby]

According to my tsp.gov online account, my 'Personal Rate of Return' for the twelve months ending April 30, 2012, was up 0.83%.

Personal Rate of Return
2009 +29.86%
2010 +13.31%
2011 -0.74%

January 31, 2012 +3.19%
February 29, 2012 +4.54%
March 31, 2012 +4.81%
April 30, 2012 +0.83%

CURRENT AUTOTRACKER THROUGH APRIL 3o, 2012: +8.96%

 

[OBGibby]

View attachment 18756

My AutoTracker performance for 2012 depicted above.

Starting to lose my faith in an upward momentum of the market. Mulling over whether to go to the G Fund this week and wait until we have a definitive direction of which way the markets are going to go.

 

[OBGibby]

Birinyi Bullish as Bears With Deja Vu Can’t Wait to Sell (Bloomberg)

 

[OBGibby]

A Pullback in May? Maybe Not This Time - PAUL J. LIM/New York Times

 

[OBGibby]

[h=1]The frequent fliers who flew too much[/h]
[h=2]Many years after selling lifetime passes for unlimited first-class travel,
American Airlines began scrutinizing the costs — and the customers.

(Ken Bensinger, Los Angeles Times)

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[OBGibby]

IFT effective COB today. Moving from 40/C, 30/S, 30/I to 50/G, 50/C.

 

[Birchtree]

Some good reads there my man - "My attitude has been this market will continue to surprise you on the upside."

 

[OBGibby]

'Permabull' James Paulsen: Respect the Recovery - Amy Feldman, Fortune

 

[OBGibby]

A 40% Jump in Stocks This Year? (CNBC)

".....I’ve been making the case that you could see a 2003 and 2009-like move in
equities," he said, "whereby it’s possible that you get something in the order
of 40 percent in the broader stock market," he said....."

 

[OBGibby]

The Market That Just Won't Crash - John Carney, Net Net

 

[OBGibby]

RIGHT ON THE MONEY!!!

2012 Grads Must Tone Down Egos & Shape Up Minds - Bret Stephens, WSJ

 

[OBGibby]

Buy in May and Go Away - Doug Kass, TheStreet.com

 

[OBGibby]

A Major Stock Market Correction Is Unlikely - Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch

 

[OBGibby]

Even Pros Don't Like Stocks: Is That a Bullish Sign? - John Melloy, CNBC

 

[OBGibby]

Why FB May Collapse & Take Down Web - Michael Wolff, Technology Review

[h=3]The Facebook Fallacy[/h]For all its valuation, the social network is just another ad-supported site. Without an earth-changing idea, it will collapse and take down the Web