The stock market moves up and down every day, but when movements continue downwards for a period of time the market is referred to as a ‘bear market’. Upward moving markets are ‘bull markets’. If a particular stock is doing well, it is said to be bullish. If it is losing value it is bearish.
February 2007
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Commodities In Your Portfolio
For over thirty years - roughly 1974-2004 - the S&P 500 trended upward, with the CRB (Commodity Research Bureau) trending down. The CRB is analogous to the Dow Jones Index - a mathematical combination of commodities prices that indicates their movement. It’s composed of weighted averages of prices of oil, coffee, gold, wheat, etc. Yet many savvy investors continue to trade in commodities, and many of those do very well. Why is that?
Bond Trading Strategy: Swapping
Ah, if only the world would stand still - just for a little while. But, in the world of investing (as elsewhere) it’s never so.
Forecasts made on purchasing day have to be adjusted tomorrow in light of changing circumstances and new discoveries. Keeping up with those changes - or, better still, anticipating them, is what bond trading strategy is all about.