I wrote a piece earlier for stockcharts.com discussing home bias, which is the tendency for people to own companies that are located close to their home.  One of the ways I suggested to combat this bias was to make sure to screen for stocks across markets and regions...

I recently listened to an interview with Rob Arnott from Research Associates entitled "Rob Arnott on Why Active Managers Fail."  Despite its poorly worded title (Rob explains why some active managers do outperform, see below), it's definitely worth a six minute listen...

"Those who do not study the past will repeat its errors.  Those who do study it, will find other ways to err!"  -Bob Farrell

As part of my normal routine of screening for ETFs making meaningful moves, I look for those with an RSI less than 40...

Back on February 17th, I wrote about the availability heuristic and breakouts that were happening in a number of index charts.  As a review, if all you see are breakouts, I find it helpful to identify charts that look different...

"Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful."  -Warren Buffett

I run a scan on stockcharts.com for ETFs making 65-day highs and another for those making 65-day lows.  Not surprisingly, today's low screen is full of commodities, energy, gold, oil, etc...

Listened to an interesting podcast where the Bloomberg Odd Lots people interviewed chess player Hikaru Nakamura, who achieved Grand Master status at a younger age than Bobby Fischer...

"It's better to be approximately right than precisely wrong."  -unknown

I was listening to Barry Ritholz's interview with Professor Andrew Lo from MIT yesterday and I actually drove the long way home just to catch the end of it.  What a fascinating discussion that touched on so many meaningful topics...

Anyone that has visited Italy may be familiar with an Italian concept called "La Dolce Far Niente."  Loosely translated as "The Sweetness of Nothing," it embodies the carefree approach to life that you may find strolling through Florence or Naples...

"Become more humble as the market goes your way." -Bernard Baruch

Thus begins a fantastic post by Ben Carlson over at A Wealth of Common Sense, all dealing with the psychological struggles of an investor in a bull market...

So I've seen and heard plenty recently about the SPX reaching severely overbought conditions.  Here I'll introduce RSI and then discuss three simple questions... What does that mean?  How important is it?  What do we do about it?...