Pre-Market Open News and Links for Friday
Chart of The Day: "Except for a brief counter-trend rally in July, the stock market has struggled since peaking in late April. Investors are concerned. For some perspective, today's chart presents the Dow's average performance for each calendar month since 1950. As today's chart illustrates, it is not unusual for the stock market to underperform during the May to October time frame with a brief counter-trend rally occurring in July.

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Thursday links: secret sauces
Is the “cult of equity” dead and buried? (FT Alphaville)

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Wednesday links: September snap back
We are now back in the trading range. (Big Picture)
August asset class performance. (Bespoke)

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What’s Bad for Bernanke Is Worse for You
Bad day for stocks, Monday. A bad day. Not a terrible day. Not a crash day. Just a bad day.
The Dow fell 140 points. This was baaaad…because it shows that the stock market does not really buy Bernanke’s storyline.
You’ll recall that when we left off last week, Ben Bernanke assured the world that while the recovery was not exactly what he had hoped for, he nevertheless had the situation in hand. He said he had the tools necessary to fix the problem and would do whatever was required.

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Top 50 ETF’s – September 2010 edition
In what turned out to be the worst month of August in over a decade, bear ETF’s, funds that are built in order to profit from market downturns were at the top of the ranks. These funds and especially the leveraged short ones dominated the charts with Direxion and Proshares sharing the lead.

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Daily Market Commentary: Semiconductors Crack as Markets Pause
In the end it was a clean break; semiconductors gave up nearly 2% and the last hope for a bull trap went away. The nascent CCI 'buy' signal disappeared with the losses - it's looking ugly for the semiconductor index

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A Stock That Shrugged Off the Last Recession
Back in the fall of 2008, investors were running from the stock market like crazy because recessionary conditions had clearly set in. And with “double-dip” headlines all over the place and the Dow back around that all-important 10,000 level, we could be in for a similar exodus exactly two years later.
There’s no telling whether this fall will hold another drubbing for U.S. shares.

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TODAY'S OPEN: DOWN
Stock futures fall ahead of data, Fed minutes-
"Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 47 points to 9,932, and S&P 500 futures dropped 5.9 points to 1,039.2. Nasdaq 100 futures declined 11.25 points to 1,757.5, as a sharp selloff in Tokyo and ongoing economic worries soured sentiment before the release of U.S. housing and consumer-confidence data."

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Follow the Sectors for Maximum Profit
Click Here To Follow the Sectors, not the Broad Market Indexes
"Investors that understand how market indexes are constructed uncover great opportunities"
Consider these 2 questions carefully

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A Fan of Upward -Sloping Trendlines
I must confess that I too am confused, frustrated and starting to lose both my patience and my motivation. I read other blogs, newsletters, financial sites and come away convinced that no one knows with any degree of certainty what's coming down the road.

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