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Re: [TSP_Strategy] Re: Fwd: New York Post: Stock market rigging is no longer a 'conspiracy theory'

Re: [TSP_Strategy] Re: Fwd: New York Post: Stock market rigging is no longer a 'conspiracy theory'

 

Yes, it is helpful

"Why track insiders?

Insider behavior matters because research based on real-time signals has shown that a properly modeled picture of insider actions can provide the most accurate reflection of the prospects for the company, industry, economic sector, or even the stock market in general, going forward.

This makes perfect sense from an intuitive perspective. Corporate insiders possess all the necessary skills and characteristics that one could use to describe the "successful" investor. These include: A deep knowledge and understanding of the company and/or industry; A demonstrated ability to produce success; The training necessary to understand risk and to control it; The wherewithal (capital) to take advantage of opportunity when it presents itself and finally; A tendency to go against the crowd.

Further, insider buys are especially useful. Since insiders have exclusive information on the company performance, if they are risking their own money on the stock, usually they should have good reasons, especially when several insiders buy the stock at the same time."

http://www.insidercow.com/


 

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[TSP_Strategy] Re: NON-TSP Subject: High Performance ETFs

[TSP_Strategy] Re: NON-TSP Subject: High Performance ETFs

 

The investing education offered through TD Ameritrade is Investools.  If you Google Investools you will find they got a bad rap years ago.  The bad rap wasn't necessarily about the education itself but about the cost and the tendency of Investools, then an independent company, to continually give sales pitches to students to sign up for additional course work.   However, that was years ago.  In 2009 and Investools was acquired by TD Ameritrade.  Course prices came down  and the high pressure sales tactics ceased.  The retail prices on the educational offerings may still be pricy on the retail level.  But if you have an account with TD Ameritrade they can be purchased an half off.  Periodically they run promotions if you open an account or deposit to an existing account you get various courses and additional add-ons for free.  The more you deposit the more you get free.  My wife, also a retired federal employee, and I rolled enough over from our TSP accounts so I got the Stock Investing and Technical Analysis courses plus the add-on for free.


Now for the education package itself.  All courses can be taken online and  consist of the following components:  A self-paced mixed media course with good information, but stuff you can probable pick up for free around the internet.   Online workshops consisting of 6 webinars where a coach/instructor shares his screen to  go over important aspects from the self-paced course.  Questions can be asked via the Chat (text not voice).  


Trading Rooms and Coaching Rooms:  These are Webinar type offerings conducted at various times through out the day, 5 1/2 days a week.  To me attending a Trading Room is the most valuable offering.  The Coach conducting the Trading Room assumes the participants have been through the course work and workshop.  The Coach bring up real time stock charts or other financial information to go over key concepts of the Coaches choosing.  Stocks, ETF etc are researched, selected, and traded on a paper money account.

Coaching Rooms are similar except the Coach has no agenda.  Participants chat in their questions and the Coach responds.


Direct one-on-one coaching over the telephone is available at an extra cost.    


There are other offerings available, such as live multi day workshops.  Of course those cost more. 


Additionally, when you sign up for the educational packages you get access to a good array of online research and charting tools.  


  

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Re: [TSP_Strategy] Re: Fwd: New York Post: Stock market rigging is no longer a 'conspiracy theory'

Re: [TSP_Strategy] Re: Fwd: New York Post: Stock market rigging is no longer a 'conspiracy theory'

 

Of course, the "Share Repurchase" may drive the share price up, but that doesn't always increase "EPS".
One of the reasons for that might be "all those stock options" that the top executive officers are getting.  The shares that a company is issuing for compensating the top executives may be the shares that company is buying back in many cases.  Which means, it may drive the stock price up (with a publicity), but not necessarily increase the EPS. Also some companies are borrowing money (because the interest rate is very low these days) to buy back their own stocks, not with their earnings.  In fact, earnings forecast for this year for many companies in S&P 500 were not increasing at all if not decreasing.  

I guess, It's a trend these days, that top executives prefer to be compensated with stock options instead of a big salary because their salary will be taxed at much higher rate than the incomes they get from their stock options.  As an example, Steve Jobs have been getting a salary of $1 for so many years because he didn't believe in Government and Taxes.  To me that is totally insane!  This type of a distorted view of capitalism will eventually destroy the idea of capitalism which I love its principle.  The capitalism, when exercised in an ideal way, should make everybody do well, not just top 1%.  So why is it not working well these days?  "GREED !".  Historical ratio of compensation between the average worker's vs. top executives was around 1 to 20.  What's the ratio these days?  1 to several hundreds if not thousands.

The wealth distribution over the period of last decade shows exactly what I mentioned above:  "Wealth of average american were stagnant while wealth of those top 1% tripled during this period".  How long can this type of capitalism will sustain?  I still think the idea of capitalism is great, but without average worker's consumption grow by their discretionary income growth, the invested capital may not work well.  It will work better with two way principle, not one way! "GIVE and TAKE".

Oh, btw, I hope everybody is doing well on managing your TSP accounts.  I've been away for a while and just came back home, deleting so many emails mercilessly...LoL.  Then, I noticed this email trail and feel like I wanted share my thoughts.  Anyway, folks, do not be too complacent about the market.  It does work both way also.  What goes up fast, eventually will come down fast also.  So just be careful and be ready to preserve your hard earned capital!  Just my two cents worth... 

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Ralph Architzel rarch71@gmail.com [TSP_Strategy] <TSP_Strategy@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

Furthermore, I would be interested in whether such share repurchase activity can be reliably used as a trade signal?  Or is the situation that once we (the public) learn about it the timing is too late to gain an edge from this information?

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 9:21 AM, rc.livtaride@mindspring.com [TSP_Strategy] <TSP_Strategy@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

As Sarah stated not everyone on here understands and I appreciate her explaining these posts. Thanks for all your help Sarah!!!

-----Original Message-----
From: "Matt Lowery mattlowery@yahoo.com [TSP_Strategy]"
Sent: Mar 27, 2015 8:15 AM
To: "TSP_Strategy@yahoogroups.com"
Subject: Re: [TSP_Strategy] Re: Fwd: New York Post: Stock market rigging is no longer a 'conspiracy theory'

 

We understand the definition of share repurchase.  

However, to indicate that is the only reason for purchasing one's own shares wouldn't be completely honest. At the time of hire, execs are given options regardless of performance of the company at that specific point in time. A condition of exercising the options would be a strike based on EPS. 

 Therefore, another reason for repurchase is to drive the EPS upwards. 

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 27, 2015, at 12:05 PM, sarah_oz@yahoo.com [TSP_Strategy] <TSP_Strategy@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Executives of companies purchase shares of those companies when they think they are in for a tumble? Usually they purchase them AFTER they tumble and expect them to rise. 

DEFINITION of 'Share Repurchase'

A program by which a company buys back its own shares from the marketplace, reducing the number of outstanding shares. Share repurchase is usually an indication that the company's management thinks the shares are undervalued. The company can buy shares directly from the market or offer its shareholder the option to tender their shares directly to the company at a fixed price.

INVESTOPEDIA EXPLAINS 'Share Repurchase'

Because a share repurchase reduces the number of shares outstanding (i.e. supply), it increases earnings per share and tends to elevate the market value of the remaining shares. When a company does repurchase shares, it will usually say something along the lines of, "We find no better investment than our own company."



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[TSP_Strategy] Senate Joins House in Targeting Federal Workforce for Deficit Reduction

[TSP_Strategy] Senate Joins House in Targeting Federal Workforce for Deficit Reduction

 

 

Senate Joins House in Targeting Federal Workforce for Deficit Reduction

  • By Eric Katz
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Architect of the Capitol
The Senate early Friday morning narrowly approved a budget resolution that includes cuts to the federal workforce, higher pension contributions and changes to health care benefits.
The changes would result in $170 billion in savings over 10 years on the backs of federal employees, Senate Budget Committee aides said when the budget was unveiled last week. The recommendations were based in part on suggestions made by the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform -- known as the Simpson-Bowles Commission -- which called for cuts to the federal workforce and civil servants' compensation as part of a larger deficit reduction effort. 
The Senate blueprint passed 52-46 around 3:30 a.m., after hours of debate and a vote-a-rama on more than 40 amendments. 
Like their House counterparts, Senate Republicans included a provision to create a 50-50 split in federal employee and agency contributions to defined benefits packages. This would result in feds contributing 6.35 percent of their paychecks toward their pensions, or an effective 5 percent pay cut for most workers.
The budget would instruct agencies to fill only a portion of the vacancies created when current federal employees leave or retire. It would also make changes to the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program to make it "more affordable."
Overall, the plan would slash discretionary spending at non-Defense agencies by $236 billion below sequestration caps over 10 years. Budget Committee staffers said their blueprint would streamline and consolidate programs, but added a significant portion of those savings would stem from reductions in benefits spending by agencies.
Among the dozens of amendments considered, lawmakers rejected a measure from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., which would have boosted Defense spending while further cutting non-Defense agency funding. Under the Senate blueprint, Defense spending would stay in line with caps required by the Budget Control Act. The plan does not dramatically increase emergency spending in the Overseas Contingency Operations fund, as does the House proposal, but would create a Defense reserve fund for future Pentagon expenditures.          
The House on Wednesday approved its own budget resolution, which includes even more drastic budget cuts. Republican leaders in the two chambers ultimately plan to reach a unified budget through a conference committee and approve a final resolution by mid-April.
Despite outcry from the White House and congressional Democrats, a unified budget would not require President Obama's signature. Obama has vowed to veto any spending measure -- once the appropriations process is completed -- that continues sequestration spending cuts.

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Re: [TSP_Strategy] Re: Fwd: New York Post: Stock market rigging is no longer a 'conspiracy theory'

Re: [TSP_Strategy] Re: Fwd: New York Post: Stock market rigging is no longer a 'conspiracy theory'

 

Furthermore, I would be interested in whether such share repurchase activity can be reliably used as a trade signal?  Or is the situation that once we (the public) learn about it the timing is too late to gain an edge from this information?

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 9:21 AM, rc.livtaride@mindspring.com [TSP_Strategy] <TSP_Strategy@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

As Sarah stated not everyone on here understands and I appreciate her explaining these posts. Thanks for all your help Sarah!!!

-----Original Message-----
From: "Matt Lowery mattlowery@yahoo.com [TSP_Strategy]"
Sent: Mar 27, 2015 8:15 AM
To: "TSP_Strategy@yahoogroups.com"
Subject: Re: [TSP_Strategy] Re: Fwd: New York Post: Stock market rigging is no longer a 'conspiracy theory'

 

We understand the definition of share repurchase.  

However, to indicate that is the only reason for purchasing one's own shares wouldn't be completely honest. At the time of hire, execs are given options regardless of performance of the company at that specific point in time. A condition of exercising the options would be a strike based on EPS. 

 Therefore, another reason for repurchase is to drive the EPS upwards. 

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 27, 2015, at 12:05 PM, sarah_oz@yahoo.com [TSP_Strategy] <TSP_Strategy@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Executives of companies purchase shares of those companies when they think they are in for a tumble? Usually they purchase them AFTER they tumble and expect them to rise. 

DEFINITION of 'Share Repurchase'

A program by which a company buys back its own shares from the marketplace, reducing the number of outstanding shares. Share repurchase is usually an indication that the company's management thinks the shares are undervalued. The company can buy shares directly from the market or offer its shareholder the option to tender their shares directly to the company at a fixed price.

INVESTOPEDIA EXPLAINS 'Share Repurchase'

Because a share repurchase reduces the number of shares outstanding (i.e. supply), it increases earnings per share and tends to elevate the market value of the remaining shares. When a company does repurchase shares, it will usually say something along the lines of, "We find no better investment than our own company."


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Re: [TSP_Strategy] Re: Fwd: New York Post: Stock market rigging is no longer a 'conspiracy theory'

Re: [TSP_Strategy] Re: Fwd: New York Post: Stock market rigging is no longer a 'conspiracy theory'

 

As Sarah stated not everyone on here understands and I appreciate her explaining these posts. Thanks for all your help Sarah!!!

-----Original Message-----
From: "Matt Lowery mattlowery@yahoo.com [TSP_Strategy]"
Sent: Mar 27, 2015 8:15 AM
To: "TSP_Strategy@yahoogroups.com"
Subject: Re: [TSP_Strategy] Re: Fwd: New York Post: Stock market rigging is no longer a 'conspiracy theory'

 

We understand the definition of share repurchase.  

However, to indicate that is the only reason for purchasing one's own shares wouldn't be completely honest. At the time of hire, execs are given options regardless of performance of the company at that specific point in time. A condition of exercising the options would be a strike based on EPS. 

 Therefore, another reason for repurchase is to drive the EPS upwards. 

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 27, 2015, at 12:05 PM, sarah_oz@yahoo.com [TSP_Strategy] <TSP_Strategy@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Executives of companies purchase shares of those companies when they think they are in for a tumble? Usually they purchase them AFTER they tumble and expect them to rise. 

DEFINITION of 'Share Repurchase'

A program by which a company buys back its own shares from the marketplace, reducing the number of outstanding shares. Share repurchase is usually an indication that the company's management thinks the shares are undervalued. The company can buy shares directly from the market or offer its shareholder the option to tender their shares directly to the company at a fixed price.

INVESTOPEDIA EXPLAINS 'Share Repurchase'

Because a share repurchase reduces the number of shares outstanding (i.e. supply), it increases earnings per share and tends to elevate the market value of the remaining shares. When a company does repurchase shares, it will usually say something along the lines of, "We find no better investment than our own company."

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Re: [TSP_Strategy] Re: Fwd: New York Post: Stock market rigging is no longer a 'conspiracy theory'

Re: [TSP_Strategy] Re: Fwd: New York Post: Stock market rigging is no longer a 'conspiracy theory'

 

We understand the definition of share repurchase. 

Understand also that, while YOU may understand the definition of share repurchase and its implications, many here are hazy on the subject.  It is for that reason that I post these definitions, not to insult you.

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