These are my personal trading returns as of month-end May 2008.
Current Month Return: 2.0%
Year To Date Return: 3.2%
3 Month Return: 2.7%
6 Month Return: 2.1%
12 Month Return: 11.8%
24 Month Return: 21.8%
24 Month Annualized Return: 10.4%
36 Month Return: 65.8%
36 Month Annualized Return: 18.4%
Since Inception Return: 57.1%
Since Inception, […]
Last night I made three assertions about the “Consumer Confidence Index.” Here is a brief analysis of each point made; click the charts if you need a larger view:
The “Consumer Confidence Index” is a strong reactionary indicator to things that have already happened, that is, when the “Consumer Confidence Index” is plunging, you can […]
A lot has been written about the plunge in the Conference Board’s “Consumer Confidence Index.” The problem is not with the quantity of the writing about it, but with the quality of the writing about it. Generally speaking, most who mentioned it, did so in a newsreel fashion, presenting the headline number or […]
I don’t have as strong an attachment to “home” as a lot of people do; it’s part and parcel of growing up as a military brat. Mom’s folks were from south Louisiana, Cajun country, however - even though much of the bloodline were descendants of deserters from Napoleon’s army after the purchase - and […]
Have you ever wondered what “important” people, the “brass,” are saying when they don’t know they’re being recorded? It just so happens that there is a website devoted to assembling cuts from satellite feed that don’t make it to broadcast television! It’s called Brasscheck TV and this video, “SPIN” by Brian Springer, makes […]
