Friday 7atSeven: bull market stages
Here are seven (or so) links at 7AM Eastern. We will see you later with the daily linkfest. Good luck out there.
Where are we in the three stages of bull markets. (Ivanhoff Capital)
Where did all the ETF volume go in January? (FT)

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Thursday links: sell side blues
Quote of the day
David Swensen, “A fiduciary would offer low-volatility funds and encourage investors to stay the course,” he said. “But the for-profit mutual fund industry benefits by offering high-volatility funds.” (Justin Fox)
Chart of the day

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S&P Dividend Aristocrats for 2012
A few years back, I published a list of “Dividend Aristocrats” — companies in the S&P 500 that have increased their dividend payouts for at least 25 consecutive years. These are large, blue chip companies that have historically provided (slightly) better performance and (slightly) lower volatility than the S&P 500 as a whole.

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Correlation Between Age Demographics and Stock Market Prices?
While perusing this early retirement reading list for more books to read, I ran across an interesting fellow named Harry S. Dent, Jr. His primary theory is that age demographics are strongly correlated with the economy and thus stock market prices.

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Market Vector Russia ETF Trust (RSX), can Russia blow up ?
Market Vector Russia ETF Trust (RSX) ; Can Russia blow up ?1) The Russian web is going nuts again Putin2) Is that a weekly head and shoulder pattern ?3) See that neckline (last key support), if broken, SELL, SELL, SELL

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Active Mutual Funds, Passive ETFs, & Tax Efficiency
When looking at your investment returns, it’s important to calculate your return after the impact of taxes and expenses (management fees, commissions, bid/ask spreads). That number is what you really end up with, but it’s never shown on any year-end statements. ETF provider iShares put out a Managing Tax Challenges brochure that shows the average annualized tax cost for actively-managed mutual funds over the last 10 years.

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ishares Silver Trust ETF (SLV) , huge spike up on the way ?
ishares Silver Trust ETF (SLV), weekly chart ; 1) Plan your trade (based on current facts, key support, world events, etc ....)2) Draw on the chart what you expect (price/volume increase, volume break out, resistance broken, target .... etc ....3) Blue arrows = my probable scenario

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YEAR END WHIMPER:
With the S&P 500 ending EXACTLY the same as the year before -1257.6 - it signified the boring end to 2011; many of the Indicators regressed to the mean on low Volume, with the VIX at 23. Some relative extremes did include the Inv.Intell. Bulls at 50+%; my records show a 62.9% high in Dec. of '04. AAII Bulls jumped to 40% - must be the champagne! A small number of funds flowed out of equity funds into MMFs, but the ETFs remained almost unchanged month/month.
Here are closing numbers for 2011:
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SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD)
SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD) ; focus on the facts1) Red arrows (old resistance level) is now our main support level (green arrows)2) Last key support is clear3) Re entry is clear4) Is the uptrend over ? Hard to tell since we could be facing a long sideway pattern before heading higher again.5) Watch the $USD Dollar .....

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Sotheby's vs. emerging markets
Performance comparison of "$BID indicator", Sotheby's vs. the $EEM (MSCI Emerging Markets) going back to 2003. You can see the close correlation throughout in this weekly chart.
Check out a larger image of the same chart here.

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