Tom Madell

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• A Friendly Trend Continues to Suggest More Gains Ahead

  Published 31 August 2011 | viewed 0 times

  As our regular readers know, we have been unswervingly positive about the overall stock market since Nov. 12, 2009, when we e-mailed subscribers to our…

• Across the Board BUY Signals for Long-Term Stock Investors In Effect

  Published 30 July 2011 | viewed 0 times

  As the days and hours tick by, many Americans, and most investors I would think, are likely getting a deeper and deeper sinking feeling about…

• Investors Are Fretting: Should You Be Too?

  Published 11 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  It has never been easy for anyone, expert nor amateur alike, to predict the stock market's next likely direction. But that doesn't deter most people…

• Bond Market Strategies

  Published 02 May 2011 | viewed 0 times

  With so much attention focused on the stock market and its meteoric rise, the market's "inferior step-sister," as some like to think of the bond…

• Why It Pays to Rebalance Your Mutual Fund Portfolio

  Published 25 April 2011 | viewed 0 times

  As long-time readers of my Newsletter are aware, at the beginning of each quarter we present our updated Model Portfolios featuring not only which specific…

• Thinking of Buying Stocks? Should You 'Buy the Unloved'?

  Published 27 January 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Summary: While many investors prefer to invest in specific stock funds (and fund categories) that have previously topped the performance charts, there is now considerable…

• We Remain Firmly Bullish

  Published 02 January 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Many of us might have held back on investing in stocks, either a little or very much so, over the past few years on the…

• Bonds: What the Future May Hold

  Published 21 November 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Notwithstanding the past few weeks, the returns on almost all types of bonds funds over the last decade have been better than many would have…

• Stock Market Up Over 77% Since March 2009, Yet to Many the Sky is Gray

  Published 31 October 2010 | viewed 0 times

  While acknowledging that events in the future, including the eventual path of the stock market, remain subject to unknown happenstance, I feel more confident than…

• How Long Will 'Undifferentiated' Returns Stymie Investors?

  Published 16 October 2010 | viewed 0 times

  In the last few years, I have noticed there has been an extreme lack of longer-term performance variation across different broad-based categories of domestic stock…

• Stock Funds: On-Off Relationship or Long-Term Affair?

  Published 02 September 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Have you been a long-term holder of one or more stock funds that haven't done well for quite some time? Well, if so, you have…

• Selling Stock Funds: Smart in 2007-2008 But Not Now

  Published 31 July 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Regular readers of my Newsletter are likely aware that we have a very good long-term record of successfully recommending stock fund categories which we believe…

• Some Investors Getting 'Fed Up' with the Fed?

  Published 23 July 2010 | viewed 0 times

  As returns available on CDs, T-bills, and money market accounts continue to hover at minuscule levels, conservative investors with large sums in these accounts who…

• Will Stock Investors Go on a Buyers' Strike?

  Published 01 July 2010 | viewed 0 times

  This article discusses two different perspectives on why investors might turn away from stocks: - repaying government debt may cause future growth (and stock returns)…

• Can Anyone Tell What the 'May-hem' Means?

  Published 01 June 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Many events of potentially vital significance to investors occurred virtually every day during last 4 weeks or so, weekends excepted. But suppose, you, like most…

• 'Alerts' Have Foretold the Gains and Likely Still Do

  Published 29 April 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Regular readers of my Newsletter are aware that over the last few years I have published, and will continue to publish, a small number of…

• Investing Based on Mainstream Economic Data Can Be Hazardous to Your Wealth

  Published 31 March 2010 | viewed 1,101 times

  Contents: - Past "Signals" Gone Awry March 2000 Oct. 2002 Oct. 2007 March, 2009 - What the Data Suggests Might Lie Ahead Now - Over-…

• What in the World Is an Investor to Do?

  Published 02 March 2010 | viewed 2,654 times

  There are currently a great many uncertainties for anyone attempting to judge the prospects for funds invested abroad. In this article, I will briefly discuss…

• New Research Shows 2000-2009 Stock Losses Could Have Been Avoided

  Published 01 February 2010 | viewed 2,446 times

  The last 10 years have been dubbed the "lost decade" for stock investors as trillions of their dollars vanished. But, in newly conducted research, it…

• Important Stock Fund Strategy Considerations

  Published 04 January 2010 | viewed 2,824 times

  As 2010 begins, we start the new year with perhaps more optimism than usual. However, our optimism is not based upon the sanguine view that…