Principles of the Stock Market

Richard Schwartz, who loves to share his experience and knowledge with his many readers, has worked in the stock market and financial services industry for over 35 years. His lifetime stock market/economics reading list is approaching 175 books. Richard is currently employed at a financial firm writing a money management advisory and trading the firm’s capital while continuing to publish his “Principles of the Stock Market” newsletter.

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ETF View 12/05/2007

EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS (ETF) VIEW . Be very careful of the new inverse ETFs! As I feel that a new bear market has now started, I’ve gotten my hands on a list of ProShares inverse ETFs, or Short and UltraShort ETFs, with which one can short the stock market...

Published 12-05-2007 8:37 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, ETFs, Trading
Long Term Yields Are Key

LONG TERM US TREASURES . Yields are key! As long as long term US Treasury yields stay down, that will help reflate US consumers and thus stabilize the US housing market and thus the whole economy. And then the bulls may just be proved right that no big...

Published 01-25-2008 8:58 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, US Economy, Keys to the Market
Update on the Stock Market

UPDATE ON THE STOCK MARKET . Wednesday, Febraury 20th, 2008: Well, we posted another one of those intraday reversals yesterday. But this time from it was from up to down. Actually, this phenomenon has been happening a lot recently whereby early day gains...

Published 02-21-2008 9:06 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, Trading, Day to Day Action, Distribution
Technicals Say More Rally Ahead

TECHNICAL VIEW . April 29th, 2008: The Dow Industrials bullishly pushed up and out of its 3-month trading range on Friday, April 18 th joining the Dow Transports to the upside. Bullish. A number of other key indices, like the Nasdaq Composite did so as...

Published 04-29-2008 8:58 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, Technical View, Charting, Keys to the Market, Dow Transports, Day to Day Action, Higher Higher & Higher Lows, Portfolio Strategy, Trades, A Line, The Principle of Technical Analysis
Time Frame Strategies

PORTFOLIO STRATEGY: Monday, March10th, 2008 One Schwartz Rule that I’ve developed from my INVALUABLE day-trading experience of a couple years back is to SELL EARLY! , which led to the corollary rule to BUY EARLY! which has now morphed into the all purpose...

Published 03-12-2008 1:29 PM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, ETFs, Trading, Shorting, Green Investing, Soft Commodities, Charting, The Principle of Primary Trend, Day to Day Action, Portfolio Strategy, Schwartz Rules
Bear Market Bottom or Bear Market Rally?

Bear Market BOTTOM or Bear Market RALLY ? I say a bear market rally . But it may look solid enough and get investors excited enough to really rally the stock market for some time. And if all the upside doesn’t come too fast and furious, say yesterday...

Published 03-12-2008 1:36 PM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, Seven Principles, Historical Perspectve
Catching A Falling Knife?

THROWING GOOD MONEY AFTER BAD . Let’s think back some so as not to lose perspective. Where to start? Yep, right at the top of the five year bull market and the top of the private equity boom. June 21 st , 2007: CHINA backed Blackstone Group’s IPO at ...

Published 03-13-2008 9:11 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, Trading, Value View, Investing Strategies, US Dollar, Keys to the Market, Distribution, The Fed, Portfolio Strategy, Schwartz Rules, Historical Perspectve, Perspective
Hold Interest Rates Steady!

CHAIRMAN BERNANKE: “HOLD INTEREST RATES STEADY ON TUESDAY!” Hey, why not? What have we got to lose? Cutting interest rates sure isn’t working, right? Along with setting interest rate policy, the Fed has another role, that is being the “lender of last...

Published 03-13-2008 9:15 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, Gold, Inflation, US Dollar, US Economy, Keys to the Market, The Fed, Macroeconomics, US Treasuries, Bubbles, Commodity Bull Market, Portfolio Strategy, Federal Reserve, Oil, Interest Rates
Past is Prologue; Again

THE BANK PANIC OF 1907 . A Historical Guideline For Today . I’ve seen a couple articles comparing the ‘Panic of 1907’ to today’s ongoing financial crisis. Made sense to me especially after I read the following passage by John Spence of www.MarketWatch...

Published 03-18-2008 8:55 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, Dow Theory, Keys to the Market, The Fed, Portfolio Strategy, Historical Perspectve, Federal Reserve
Visa IPO: The Rest of the Story

THE VISA IPO . Aha! The Real Story Comes To Light! When I heard of the upcoming initial public offering (IPO) of Visa a couple weeks back, I was shocked and wrote about it (Feb. 27 th ) wondering out loud why anyone would buy it. I did find the argument...

Published 03-18-2008 9:02 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Value View, Keys to the Market, IPO, Historical Perspectve, Perspective
Extended Bear Markets Don't Crash

FINISHING UP YESTERDAY’S BANK PANIC OF 1907 COMPARISON. My theme yesterday morning – that stock markets don’t crash during financial panics --was emphasized by yesterday’s price action. Pressure was again taken off the stock market by its big rally. Every...

Published 03-19-2008 10:35 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, Technical View, Investing Strategies, Keys to the Market, Distribution, Schwartz Rules, Historical Perspectve, Perspective, Extended Bear Markets, Crashes
Markets, and Fed Chairmen too, Evolve

The Principle of Understanding History (one of my seven stock market principles). The 1930s Vs. Today . I just started reading another stock market book. This time it’s 100 YEARS OF WALL STREET (2000) by Charles R. Geisst. Turns out it’s a fast and easy...

Published 03-31-2008 8:10 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, Seven Principles, The Fed, Bubbles, Portfolio Strategy, Historical Perspectve, Perspective, Federal Reserve, Extended Bear Markets, Crashes
China's Shame Highlighted

GLOBAL VIEW . China & the Summer Olympics . I watched the always depressing BBC (British Broadcasting Corp.) news last night at 6 pm . (Right after Inside Racing which this time of year showcases the 3-year old horses getting ready for the Kentucky...

Published 03-31-2008 8:29 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: China, Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, China View, Climate Action Partnership, The Coming China Wars, Historical Perspectve
China's Bear Market Bottoms Out On ...

CHINA again and again. I write about China so much that I get bored with it. But China is the new global power and thus very important. Plus commodity advocate and long term perspective guru, who I haven’t seen call much wrong, Jim Rogers believes so...

Published 03-31-2008 8:38 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: China, Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, China View, The Coming China Wars, The Principle of Primary Trend, Seven Principles, Global Investing, Commodity Bull Market, Historical Perspectve, Jim Rogers
Bear Market to Continue

THE STOCK MARKET: Monday, March 31st, 2008 I have to say the stock market is now stuck in a wide, very ragged trading range. It’s being supported by the Bernanke Put (just like the old Greenspan Put when stocks go down, the Fed steps in with something...

Published 03-31-2008 8:44 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, Investing Strategies, Charting, Personal Remarks, Update On The Stock Market, Historical Perspectve, Extended Bear Markets

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ETF View 12/05/2007

Long Term Yields Are Key

Update on the Stock Market

Technicals Say More Rally Ahead

Time Frame Strategies

Bear Market Bottom or Bear Market Rally?

Catching A Falling Knife?

Hold Interest Rates Steady!

Past is Prologue; Again

Visa IPO: The Rest of the Story

Extended Bear Markets Don't Crash

Markets, and Fed Chairmen too, Evolve

China's Shame Highlighted

China's Bear Market Bottoms Out On ...

Bear Market to Continue