January 2014 Reading List

Happy New Year!

•  SPY 1% Off Record High While ECRI's WLI Is At A 191-Week High
  What happened to that recession Jas and ECRI were so keen on?
  
•  Real Price of S&P Composite with Dividends Re-invested 1870-2013 
  Hard to beat those returns.
  
•  S&P500 Resistance and Support Levels  Testing First Level Support  

 Long Term Results that Speak for Themselves

Since 9/30/98 inception, "Kirk's Newsletter Explore Portfolio" is UP 522%

vs. the DJIA UP only 106%, S&P500 UP only 139% and NASDAQ UP only 147%

That is 9.6% Compound Annual Return vs. 4.6% for the S&P500

(All through 12/31/13)

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August Reading

The markets continue to make new highs while reports say many or most individual investors are not participating.  They missed my memos (newsletter and Seeking Alpha articles) that explained how you should buy assets located right under Ben Bernanke's helicopter. 

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Here are some of my recent articles to read:

Aug 13 Timer Digest's Top Stock Market Timers:
Kirk's Investment Letter in First Place!
Aug 13 Timer Digest's Top Bond Market Timers
Kirk's Investment Letter in First Place!

Aug 08 European Stocks Making New Post-Financial-Crisis Highs
Aug 07 NanoViricides Soaring on Recent News
Aug 06 FNSR Finisar Soars After Hours on Strong Guidance
Aug 01 Dow Jones Economic Sentiment Indicator, ESI vs S&P500 Update
July 31 Dow Jones Industrial Average Adjusted For Inflation - Historical Graph
July 26  SPY Makes New Record High While ECRI's WLI At 119-Week High
July 21 NASDAQ Composite: Kirk's Irrational Exuberance and Pessimism Trend Lines


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Kirk Lindstrom
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June Reading

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June 05 Federal Reserve Fed Funds Interest Rates vs Stock Prices
June 05 Median Single-Family Home Prices Adjusted for Inflation
May 30 VWO Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF + SCHE & EEM Historical Charts
May 29 Dow Jones Industrial Average Adjusted For Inflation - Historical Chart
May 28 University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment vs Dow Jones Industrial Avg.
May 18 Timer Digest Top 10 Timers: James Rohrbach Investment Models Profile  
May 14 Watch the Red Lines:  Dow & S&P500 Resistance and Support Levels 

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Kirk's Articles on Seeking Alpha

• June 3  Intel Now Inside A Samsung Galaxy Tablet
• May 17 Citigroup Rising From The Ashes  
• May 13  S&P 500 And SPY At New Highs While ECRI's WLI Moves Higher Again

May Reading

May 7 Dow Resistance and Support Levels - Andrew's Pitchfork
May 6 Weekly Jobless Claims versus the S&P500 Price Graph
May 1 Medium Single-Family Home Prices in Ounces of Gold

May 3 S&P 500 Breaks Above 1600, SPY At Another Record High And ECRI's WLI Moving Higher
May 2  Take Profits Or Sell BND And Buy Series I Bonds
April 30 With Market At Record Highs, The Dow/Gold Ratio Is Still Low On An Historical Basis
April 30 SPY And S&P 500 Set Record Highs, ECRI Explains Recession Call

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Suggested June Reading

Note you can get 0.85% on savings accounts but I Bonds pay 2.20%!

• Best Savings Account Rates
  Looks like AMEXP is back up to 0.85%!
• I Bonds: Current iBond Rates & I- Bonds Explained 
  
• June 21 WTIC (West Texas Intermediate Crude) - Crude Oil Price Per Barrel History

• Despite First Budget Surplus Since 2008, U.S. Still Borrows 34 Cents Of Every Dollar Spent
• Facebook IPO Timeline: Facebook Valuation, Facts and History 
• What is the Best Dividend Paying Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) for Income?

April Reading

New Articles & Charts for April 2012

• U.S. Borrows 53.7 Cents Of Every Dollar Spent In March
  
• S&P500 as a percentage of Total Stock Market (SPY vs VTSMX)
  
  
• Semiconductor Chip Foundry Revenue and Rankings for 2010 and 2011 

• Apple's Valuation Is Good, But Are The Assumptions Correct?

• ECRI's WLI Rises To 34-Week High, Growth Rate Now Positive

Mar 31  ECRI's WLI Rises To 33-Week High, Growth Rate No Longer Negative
Mar 27 Apple, Is The Bandwagon Full? Consider Finisar
Mar 16 WLI Rises To 31-Week High; ECRI Sticks To Recession Call
Mar 13 U.S. Budget Deficit Rises Another $4,088 Per Worker

March Reading

New Articles & Charts

• Mar 16 What is the Best Bond ETF?
• Mar 16 WLI Rises To 31-Week High; ECRI Sticks To Recession Call
• Mar 15 Why ECRI Stands By Their Recession Call
• Mar 13 U.S. Budget Deficit Rises Another $4,088 Per Worker
• Mar 09 ECRI's Weekly Leading Index Keeps Climbing - Will Recession Call Hold?
• Mar 02 ECRI Sticks To Recession Call As Weekly Leading Index Continues To Climb

 And from last month:

• Feb 28 Michael Lombardi's Critical Warning Number Six Predicts a Market Crash in 2 Months!
• Feb 21  DOW 13,000 - Dow Jones Industrial Average Breaks 13,000
• Feb 28 Gold/GLD: Resistance and support levels for the price of gold
  
• Feb 27 Graph of ISE Sentiment Index vs DJIA

Articles for February 2012

Good reads:

• Dow-Gold Ratio Rallies Above 12-Year Resistance: Time To Buy Intel And Microsoft?
• Keep An Eye on SPY: ECRI's Weekly Leading Index Rises
• Why I Like GE And Why I Took Profits
  
  
• George Soros 2012 Market Outlook
  "I am not here to cheer you up...."
  
  
• Ed Hyman & Bob Doll's Market Outlook for 2012
  Ed Hyman has been rated the #1 economist by Institutional Investor for 32 years running and recently named to "All American Research Team Hall of Fame." Bob Doll is the Chief Equity Strategist at Blackrock.
  
  
• Byron Wien's 14 Bullish Predictions for 2012
  Earnings for American corporations continue to move higher driving the Standard and Poor’s 500 above....

A cartoon for all who get depressed reading Jas Jain predictions:

Long Term Results that Speak for Themselves

Since 9/30/98 inception, "Kirk's Newsletter Explore Portfolio" is UP 390%

vs. the S&P500 UP only 51% vs. NASDAQ UP only 57% (All through 12/31/11) 

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Latest 2012 Update:  Up 10.1% YTD  as of 2/15/12
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