Think Counter Intuitive

Thinking Outside the Box by Lloyd Williams

Browsing Posts published in April, 2011

Source: Chart of the Day The SIA Market Report portfolio has an 8% position in United States Gasoline FD LP (GAS) as one of the strongest relative strength commodities. See chart below. Source: SIA Market Report If you are not a subscriber and you would like to gain access to the full portfolio details, you […]

Colin Barr wrote an interesting article for Fortune last week, titled Lost decade? We’ve Already Had One. The article sheds further light on the blog post earlier concerning the increase in earning on the S&P 500. GDP that stems from new debt — mainly deficit spending — is phony: it is debt-financed consumption, not prosperity. […]

Client Newsletters are an important form of communication. They allow you to talk to your entire client base at once. This mass communication format will save you hours of one-on-one phone calls to answer the same questions that can easily be illustrated in a newsletter. Accompany this with a monthly or quarterly conference call and […]

The DISC and PIAV assessments are now consolidated into a single report called Success Insights Behaviors and Motivators. The new single report includes all the content of the two previous reports with additional Team Building and Action Points. If you have team members who have not done an assessment recently this is a good time […]

Source: Thomson One Are your portfolios prepared for this kind of volatility? Are your client’s willing to ride the roller coaster with you again? Stay tuned for the Four Myths of the Market and how to avoid them.

From The Paris Review - Spring 2011 Janet Malcolm has written many books of non-fiction and magazine articles since her publishing debut in The New Yorker in 1963. Yet for all the volume of her output (and its quality), her largest claim to fame still probably rests on one 26-word sentence she wrote more than […]

A master is the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leave other to determine whether […]

The chart clearly shows a rising trend of increased earnings over time and an extraordinary recovery of earnings from 2008. What are your thoughts? Please comment and share with others.

If you watch only one movie this year, make sure you buy and watch Inside Job. Understand the cause of the 2008 market meltdown. Who was involved and why it will happen again. The interviews and charts alone are worth the DVD. But more important for your future is what has not changed and why […]