How About Bert Dohmen?
August 20, 2009 - Individual Gurus
The information at Dohmen Capital Research appears to be mostly promotional copy and opinion rather than research.
August 20, 2009 - Individual Gurus
The information at Dohmen Capital Research appears to be mostly promotional copy and opinion rather than research.
August 20, 2009 - Fundamental Valuation
…while the backtested performance of the Value Line Select ETF Index versus the broad U.S. equity market is promising, the index underperforms during a relatively short out-of-sample test.
August 19, 2009 - Mutual/Hedge Funds
…evidence from hedge fund due diligence reports indicates a substantial level of misrepresentation by fund managers and confirms return chasing by investors. Key indicators of fund manager truthfulness are uses of external asset pricing and a major auditing firm.
August 19, 2009 - Individual Gurus
…there is not enough information on VectorVest’s public web site to do any detailed evaluation.
August 18, 2009 - Animal Spirits, Technical Trading
…Asian stock markets do to some degree follow the U.S. market, including its sharp drops. However, U.S. market plunges are rare and clustered, the Asian market responses to these plunges are noisy, and overnight/weekend gaps on Asian markets substantially absorb plunge contagion.
August 17, 2009 - Fundamental Valuation
…evidence indicates that aggregate earnings alone are not a useful predictor of overall stock market behavior, but firm-level (highly segmented industry) earnings are useful for predicting returns of individual stocks (highly segmented industries).
August 16, 2009 - Individual Gurus
There is not enough information publicly available on the web to test his claims.
August 15, 2009 - Individual Gurus
There is not enough information on the Financial Picks web site to evaluate the claims of accuracy or returns there.
August 11, 2009 - Equity Options
…evidence suggests that covered call writers who can achieve relatively low trading frictions can maximize returns by focusing on small, high-volatility, illiquid past winners. For small players, achieving low trading frictions is problematic.
August 9, 2009 - Individual Gurus
Alan M. Newman, Editor of Alan M. Newman’s Stock Market Crosscurrents, wrote on 8/3/09: